UNION MEDALS, AWARDS AND PRIZES
Science for Solutions Award
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2022 RECIPIENT
Noemi Vergopolan
Noemi is an exceptionally talented early-career researcher whose research on computational hydrology has provided outstanding contributions to solving water and food security challenges. Noemi develops scalable approaches for hydrological prediction ...
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2021 RECIPIENT
Lorenzo Rosa

Dr. Lorenzo Rosa exemplifies the qualities representative of a global citizen-researcher working toward meeting the societal and environmental challenges of the 21st century. 

In his young academic career, he has demonstrated his passi...

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2020 RECIPIENT
Mette Bendixen

For outstanding contributions that set a new agenda to solve a pressing societal challenge—the scarcity of sand resources. Read Complete Citation

2019 RECIPIENT
Franziska Landes

The creativity, passion, and impact of young researchers is inspiring, and when applied to pressing, real-world problems like lead poisoning, these research characteristics take on an even more important and pressing tone. Dr. Franziska Landes has...

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2018 RECIPIENT
Kyle Frankel Davis

Dr. Davis’s research addresses questions in the general area of global crop production, water and food security, environmental sustainability, and the food–water–energy nexus. His early work evaluated the extent to which agricult...

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2016 RECIPIENT
David Seekell

One of the major goals for modern societies is to secure access to enough resources that can be used to produce a sufficient amount of food to feed the growing and increasingly demanding human population while eradicating undernourishment and limi...

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2014 RECIPIENT
Chigomezyo Mudala Ngwira

Within heliophysics, space weather is the newest field and also the field most pertinent to life and technology. The most explosive space weather originates as solar eruptions, producing myriad secondary effects as they propagate through the helio...

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2013 RECIPIENT
Solomon M Hsiang

Solomon Hsiang is representative of a new generation in the geosciences community, whose work spans several disciplines, drawing on methods and concepts from far outside the traditional physical science domain in order to make progress on difficul...

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