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  Winner of Tyler Environmental Prize announced
The Tyler Prize executive committee and the international environmental community will honor Lettinga at a ceremony at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills on Friday, April 20 at 7 p.m.
The Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement is one of the premier awards for environmental science, energy and medicine.
It was established by the late John and Alice Tyler in 1973 and is awarded annually to individuals associated with world-class environmental accomplishments.
www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2007-03/uosc-wot032107.php   (653 words)

  
 Tyler Prize goes to Ehrlichs: 3/18/98
Established in 1973, the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement is an international award honoring significant scientific achievements in all disciplines of environmental study and environmental protection.
The Tyler Prize, administered by the University of Southern California, was established by the late John and Alice Tyler.
Tyler was founder and long-time chief executive officer of the Farmers Insurance Group.
news-service.stanford.edu /news/1998/march18/tylerprize.html   (824 words)

  
 Distinguished Achievement Awards and Honorary Societies - Research Management Group - Stanford University School of ...
USC/John and Alice Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement (Sept. 15, 2006)
The Bressler Prize in Vision Science This prize is open to all professionals in the field of vision science who have published research or clinical work that has contributed significantly to the advancement of vision care, the treatment of eye disease or the rehabilitation of people with vision impairment or blindness.
Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences This prize is intended to recognize contributions that have opened new fields of research, or advanced novel concepts or their applications in a particular biomedical discipline.
med.stanford.edu /rmg/funding/distinguished.html   (1786 words)

  
 Tyler Environmental Prize   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
The Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement is the premier award for environmental science, energy and medicine conferring great benefit upon mankind.
Tyler Laureates receive a $200,000 annual prize and are presented a gold medallion at ceremonies in Los Angeles.
The Tyler Prize, administered by the University of Southern California, was established by the late John and Alice Tyler in 1973.
www.usc.edu /dept/LAS/tylerprize   (88 words)

  
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The Tyler Prize is an international award honoring achievements in environmental science, energy, and medical discoveries of world-wide importance that impact upon human existence.
The Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement was established in 1973 by the late John and Alice Tyler.
The Tyler Prize is administered by the University of Southern California.
www.ksg.harvard.edu /ksgpress/ksg_news/press_releases/press_tyler_holdren.htm   (713 words)

  
 Newswise Science News | Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement Taps Lonnie Thompson
Internationally recognized glaciologist Lonnie Thompson is one of two scientists to win the 2005 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement, an award regarded by some in the field as equivalent to a Nobel Prize.
Newswise — Internationally recognized glaciologist Lonnie Thompson is one of two scientists to win the 2005 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement, an award regarded by some in the field as equivalent to a Nobel Prize.
In 2002, he was chosen for the Dr. A.H. Heineken Prize for Environmental Sciences and, along with Ellen Mosley-Thompson, was awarded the Common Wealth Award for Distinguished Service for Science and Invention.
www.newswise.com /articles/view/510696/?sc=swtn   (826 words)

  
 News - March 12/97 - SFU primatologist wins top environmental award   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Biruté Galdikas, a professor of archaeology at Simon Fraser University, is co-winner of the 1997 Tyler Prize for environmental achievement.
She will share the honor and its $150,000 cash prize with fellow winners Jane Goodall, the world's foremost expert on the behavior and ecology of wild chimpanzees, and George Schaller, known for his classic studies of large animals and his passion for conservation.
The Tyler prize was established in 1973 and is administered by the University of Southern California.
www.sfu.ca /mediapr/Releases/News/1997/March97/Orangutans.html   (322 words)

  
 Prof. Yao Tandong invited to the ceremony of 2005 Taylor Environmental Prize
The Tyler Prize was established by the late John and Alice Tyler in 1973.
The Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement is the premier award for environmental science, energy and medicine conferring great benefit upon mankind.
Liu Dongsheng, CAS academician won the prize for his contribution to the study of yellow soil in China and paleo-climatic chages, thus accredited yellow soil to be another paleo-environmental record besides marine sediments and ice cores.
en.tibet.cn /news/tin/t20050318_18930.htm   (230 words)

  
 U.Va. Top News Daily
He recently won the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement, an award regarded by many in the environmental sciences fields as equivalent to the Nobel Prize.
Tyler Prize recipients have included some of the world's foremost researchers, including Jane Goodall, E. Wilson, Bruce Ames, Thomas Eisner, C. Everett Koop, Thomas Lovejoy, Roger R. Revelle, F. Sherwood Rowland, and Anne and Paul Erlich.
Tyler Prize officials summed up Thompson’s contributions to science saying: “Through his ambitious research endeavors, Dr. Thompson is a leading national spokesman on the subject of global climate change and is considered one of the most respected voices in the world on related policy issues.
www.virginia.edu /topnews/03_30_2005/thompson_lonnie.html   (552 words)

  
 Dr. Paul R. Ehrlich Wins Major Environmental Award   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
The Tyler Prize was established in 1973 by the late John and Alice Tyler.
John Tyler died in 1973 less than one week before official word was received that tax exempt status had been granted allowing the establishment of the Tyler Prize.
Since its inception the Tyler Prize has been America's foremost environmental award and is now recognized as a premier world prize honoring significant scientific achievements in all disciplines of environmental study and environmental protection.
www.ots.ac.cr /en/amigos/49/ehrlich.htm   (337 words)

  
 Marshall University Alumni Association - Lonnie Thompson wins 2005 Tyler Prize
The Tyler Prize is regarded by some in the field as equivalent to a Nobel Prize.
The 2005 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement is being awarded to Dr. Lonnie G. Thompson for his pioneering work in the collection and analysis of valuable climatic information contained in ice cores from tropical glaciers around the world.
He received several distinguished awards in 2002; the Dr. A.H. Heineken Prize for Environmental Science, Royal Netherlands, Academy of Arts and Sciences; the Vega Medal of the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography, and the Commonwealth Award for Science and Invention (jointly with his spouse and collaborator, Dr. Ellen Mosley-Thompson).
www.marshall.edu /alumni/ThompsonTylerPrize.asp   (907 words)

  
 2005 Tyler Laureates
The Tyler Prize Executive Committee announces the awarding of the 2005 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement on its thirty-second anniversary to Dr. Charles David Keeling, Professor, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego and Dr. Lonnie G. Thompson, University Professor, Byrd Polar Research Center of Ohio State University.
Keeling and Thompson are recognized for their pioneering research, which has laid the foundation for and provided the clearest evidence of the growing impact of global climate change.
The 2005 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement is being awarded to Charles David Keeling to honor him for his rigorous time series measurements of atmospheric carbon dioxide and their interpretation.
www.usc.edu /dept/LAS/tylerprize/05tyler.html   (1507 words)

  
 onCampus, OSU's Newspaper for Faculty and Staff - Article
Previous Tyler Prize recipients have included some of the world’s foremost researchers, including Jane Goodall, E.O. Wilson, Bruce Ames, Thomas Eisner, C. Everett Koop, Thomas Lovejoy, Roger R. Revelle, F. Sherwood Rowland and Anne and Paul Erlich.
Tyler Prize officials summed up his contributions to science saying: “Through his ambitious research endeavors, Dr. Thompson is a leading national spokesman on the subject of global climate change and is considered one of the most respected voices in the world on related policy issues.
In 2002, he was chosen for the Dr. A.H. Heineken Prize for Environmental Sciences and, along with Mosley-Thompson, was awarded the Common Wealth Award for Distinguished Service for Science and Invention.
oncampus.osu.edu /article.php?id=430   (771 words)

  
 Orangutan Foundation International - OFI President Biruté Galdikas Shares Tyler Prize With Jane Goodall and ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
OFI President Biruté Galdikas Shares Tyler Prize With Jane Goodall and George Schaller.
Since 1973, the Tyler Prize has been the premier environmental science and leadership prize in the world.
The Tyler Prize is funded through the Alice C. Tyler Trust through the University of Southern California.
www.orangutan.org /misc/printnews.php?id=47   (280 words)

  
 ES&T Online News: 2006 Tyler Environmental Prize
David Schindler, a professor of ecology at the University of Alberta (Canada), and Igor Shiklomanov, the director of Russia’s State Hydrological Institute, were awarded this year’s Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement in late April.
The Tyler Prize is one of the premier awards for environmental science: It includes gold medals and a $200,000 cash award—which this year’s recipients will share.
Schindler’s “experiments were key to the ban of phosphorus in detergents and to the understanding of the impacts of sulfuric acid in lakes,” wrote previous Tyler Prize awardee Wallace S. Broecker in his nomination letter.
pubs.acs.org /subscribe/journals/esthag-w/2006/may/business/kb_tylerprize.html   (247 words)

  
 Pioneers in Global Climate Change Share 2002 Tyler Environmental Prize--The Earth Institute at Columbia University   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Two scientists who study geological clues from the past for insight into the environmental problems of the present have been selected to share the 2002 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement.
The men will be honored by the international environmental community at the University of Southern California -- which administers the prize -- on April 11 during a private luncheon and public lecture.
It was established by the late John and Alice Tyler in 1973 and is awarded annually to those who have made world-class environmental accomplishments.
www.earthinstitute.columbia.edu /news/story04_05_02.html   (782 words)

  
 Caltech Press Release, 12/6/1995, Claire Patterson
PASADENA--Clair C. "Pat" Patterson, who won the prestigious Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement in 1995, died suddenly on Tuesday morning, December 5, at his home in The Sea Ranch, California, northwest of Santa Rosa.
Patterson, who had a remarkable talent for finding the most important scientific problems and then solving them, is best known for his determination of the age of the earth and the solar system, and for his pioneering work on lead pollution in the modern world.
Most recently, he won the 1995 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement, the premier international environmental honor in the world.
pr.caltech.edu /media/Press_Releases/PR11683-text.html   (666 words)

  
 Environmental Links
Nominated confidentially by a network of renowned environmental organizations and environmental experts, recipients are chosen for their sustained and important environmental achievements.
Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement -- Value: $200,000 warded annually since 1973 Description: The Tyler Prize is an award for work in environmental science, energy and medicine conferring great benefit upon mankind.
One of the reasons for establishing the Prize was concern that the environmental debate was too often dominated by strong views, vigorously pursued, that were destined to be totally unacceptable to one side or the other.
www.radford.edu /~wkovarik/envhist/links.html   (660 words)

  
 Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor Joel Cohen Wins 1999 Tyler Prize
Cohen is the co-recipient of this year's Tyler Prize Prize for Environmental Achievement.
He shares the $200,000 prize with Te-Tzu (T.T.) Chang of Taiwan, a rice geneticist whose research on the evolution and variation of rice has led to major advances in plant breeding, productivity and disease resistance with a profound impact on agricultural productivity throughout much of Asia, Africa and South America.
The Tyler Prize, administered by the University of Southern California, is an international award honoring achievements in environmental science, environmental protection and environmental aspects of public health.
www.rockefeller.edu /pubinfo/tyler.prize.html   (442 words)

  
 U.S. Water Quality Expert Awarded 2007 Stockholm Water Prize
The Stockholm Water Prize is a global award founded in 1990 and presented annually by the Stockholm Water Foundation to an individual, organization or institution for outstanding water-related activities.
Being an environmental engineer, Professor McCarty has combined knowledge of physical, chemical, biological and microbiological processes and transferred the results into outstanding technical development widely used all over the world as the basis for design and operation of wastewater treatment systems.
He received the John and Alice Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement in 1992 and the Athalie Richardson Irvine Clarke Prize for Outstanding Achievements in Water Science and Technology in 1997.
www.ens-newswire.com /ens/mar2007/2007-03-22-02.asp   (868 words)

  
 Holdren Wins Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement
John P. Holdren, the Teresa and John Heinz Professor of Environmental Policy at the Kennedy School of Government, has won the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement for his work to mobilize the international community of scientists and policy-makers to take action on a wide range of global energy, environmental, and security issues.
The Tyler Prize is an international award honoring achievements in environmental science, energy, and medical discoveries of worldwide importance that impact upon human existence.
John Tyler was founder and a long-time chief executive officer of the Farmers Insurance Group.
www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/2000/02.10/holdren.html   (680 words)

  
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The Tyler Price was established in 1973 by the late John and Alice Tyler as an international award honoring achievements in environmental science, energy and medical discoveries of worldwide importance conferring reat benefit on humanity.
The Tyler Prize Executive Commitee announces the award of the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement to John P. Holdren Ph.D. of Harvard University.
Holdren is the Teresa and John Heinz Professor of Environmental Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government and Professor of Environmental Scieve and Public Policy Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University.
socrates.berkeley.edu /erg/Pages/tyler.html   (299 words)

  
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His years of work and achievement were honored this month with the prestigious Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement, presented to Margalit at a ceremony in Los Angeles on April 4.
Administered by the University of Southern California, the Tyler Prize is the premier award in the world for environmental science, energy and medicine, honoring those who have focused worldwide attention on environmental problems by their discoveries and the solutions that resulted.
Margalith's breakthrough achievement was his discovery of Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis (Bti) - a naturally occurring bacteria that is lethal to mosquitoes and fl flies.
www.israel21c.org /bin/en.jsp?enDispWho=Articles^l374&enPage=BlankPage&enDisplay=view&enDispWhat=object&enVersion=0&enZone=Health&   (1086 words)

  
 MSU News: Environmental leader to headline lecture series
It may refer to situations which have changed or people who are no longer affiliated with the university.
The president of the H.J. Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment speaks Wednesday [April 21] at Mississippi State as part of the university's annual Carlton N. Owens Lecture Series.
Heinz, an environmental advocate, was killed in a 1991 airplane crash.
www.msstate.edu /web/media/detail.php?id=2444   (216 words)

  
 :: SCRIPPS OCEANOGRAPHY NEWS : : Scripps Global Climate Change Pioneer to Receive Tyler Prize ::
Charles David Keeling, a professor of oceanography at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, has been selected to receive the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement, which is awarded for accomplishments in environmental science, energy and medicine that confer great benefit upon mankind.
The Tyler Prize citation notes that Keeling is being recognized "for his rigorous time series measurements of atmospheric carbon dioxide and their interpretation...From his remarkable lifetime of scientific investigations, we know that humans are altering the global physical environment."
The Tyler Prize, administered by the University of Southern California, was established by the late philanthropists John and Alice Tyler in 1973.
scrippsnews.ucsd.edu /article_detail.cfm?article_num=668   (911 words)

  
 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement is an award for environmental science, energy, and medicine.
Tyler Laureates receive a $200,000 annual prize and a gold medallion.
The prize is administered by the University of Southern California and was established by the late John and Alice Tyler in 1973.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tyler_Prize_for_Environmental_Achievement   (237 words)

  
 Alumni Share Tyler Prize - MIT News Office
The prize committee said Dr. White perceived, long before his contemporaries, the essential unity of the global environment and the need for unified institutional approaches.
Alice C. Tyler provides funding for the prize, first presented in 1974 and administered by the University of Southern California.
The recipients are the 30th and 31st Tyler laureates.
web.mit.edu /newsoffice/1992/tyler-0506.html   (185 words)

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