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Helen Amanda Fricker, a glaciologist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, has won the 2010 Martha T. Muse Prize for Science and Policy in Antarctica.
Stephen Morris, a postdoc at the Centre of Molecular Materials for Photonics and Electronics at the University of Cambridge, UK, is the winner of the 2010 Young Scientist award from the British Liquid Crystal Society.
Fekrije Selimi, a neurobiologist at the National Center for Scientific Research in Paris, received the Boehringer Ingelheim Federation of European Neurosciences award in July. She tells Nature how she embraces career challenges.
Stefania Mondello, a postdoc at the University of Florida, received the 2010 Premio Award, presented to outstanding female Italian scientists working in North America, at the annual conference of the Italian Association for Women Inventors and Innovators in Bari, Italy, in June.
Kewen Jin, general manager of Charles River Laboratories China, a contract research organization for preclinical services, discusses the opportunities and challenges for Shanghai.
Michael Ehlers will become the chief scientific officer for neuroscience research at drug firm Pfizer in August. He tells Nature why he decided to trade in his post in academia to explore a career in industry.
Heidi Newberg, a physicist and astronomer at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, has won a National Science Foundation grant to create the first partnership between a US team and a Chinese-led astronomy project.
Leslie Vosshall, head of the Laboratory of Neurogenetics and Behavior at Rockefeller University, New York, this year earned tenure and a promotion to the position of Robin Chemers Neustein Professor. She tells Nature that the new post makes her eager to work harder and guard against resting on her laurels.
Pathologist Gustavo Ayala of Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, won a Creativity Award in May from the Prostate Cancer Foundation, Santa Monica, California, for his work on how nerve toxins affect tumours.
Essi Viding, a developmental psychologist at University College London, won the 2010 Wiley Prize in Psychology on 4 May from the British Academy and scientific publisher Wiley-Blackwell.
Rafael Jaramillo received the 2010 Rosalind Franklin Young Investigator Award on 4 May from the Advanced Photon Source Users Organization for his work on the fundamentals of magnetism at low temperatures.
Chang-Hwan Choi, a nanoengineer at the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey, received a 2010 Young Investigator Program award from the US Office of Naval Research (ONR) for his design of anti-corrosion surfaces that will make Navy vessels more durable.
Leo Gross, a surface chemist at IBM Research-Zurich in Switzerland, has received the first annual Gerhard Ertl Young Investigator Award for atomic-resolution images of molecules using non-contact atomic force microscopy.
Ben Keeton, executive director of the Kentucky BioAlliance, discusses the challenges of transforming a state historically dependent on agriculture, mining and manufacturing into a biotech presence.
Evolutionary geneticist Harmit Malik of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, Washington, has won the 2010 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Biomedical Science for his work on the coevolution of humans and diseases.
Sanjay Singh, chief executive of Gennova Biopharmaceuticals in Pune and former head of malaria-vaccine antigen research for the US National Institutes of Health, talks of Maharashtra's research potential.
Biophysical chemist Nadine Gassner, associate director of the University of California at Santa Cruz's Chemical Screening Center, has won the Ellen Weaver Award for mentoring, from the Northern California chapter of the Association of Women in Science.
Cheng-An Lin, a biomedical engineer at Chung Yuan Christian University (CYCU) in Taiwan, received the 2010 Young Investigator Award from the International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE) on 25 January.
