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AWARDS AND HONOURS - December 2018

Dec 2018

Dec 07, 2020

Adar Poonawalla Named 'Asian of the Year'

Adar Poonawalla, the chief executive of the world's largest vaccine manufacturer Serum Institute of India, is among six people named "Asians of the Year" by Singapore's leading daily, The Straits Times for their work in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic.
Pune-based Serum Institute of India (SII) has collaborated with the University of Oxford and the British-Swedish pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca for making the COVID-19 vaccine, ''Covidshield'', and is conducting trials in India.
The other five named in the list are Chinese researcher Zhang Yongzhen, who led the team that mapped and published online the first complete genome of Sars-CoV-2, the virus that sparked the pandemic, China's Major-General Chen Wei, Japan's Dr Ryuichi Morishita and Singapore's Professor Ooi Eng Eong, who are among those at the forefront of developing vaccines against the virus, and South Korean businessman Seo Jung-jin whose company will enable the making and dispensing of the vaccines and other Covid-19 treatments to the world.

Dec 05, 2020

Gitanjali Rao First-ever TIME 'Kid of the Year'

Fifteen year-old Indian-American Gitanjali Rao, a brilliant young scientist and inventor, has been named by TIME magazine as the first-ever 'Kid of the Year' for her astonishing work using technology to tackle issues ranging from contaminated drinking water to opioid addiction and cyber bullying.
Rao was selected from a field of more than 5,000 nominees as TIME's first-ever Kid of the Year. She was interviewed by actor and activist Angelina Jolie for the TIME special.

Dec 04, 2020

Ranjitsinh Disale Wins Global Teacher Prize

A primary school teacher from India was named the winner of the USD 1 million annual Global Teacher Prize 2020 in recognition of his efforts to promote girls' education and trigger a quick-response (QR) coded textbook revolution in India.
Ranjitsinh Disale from Paritewadi village in Maharashtra's Solapur district, emerged the winner from 10 finalists from across the world for the annual prize founded by the Varkey Foundation in 2014 to recognise an exceptional teacher who has made an outstanding contribution to the profession.
Disale, who believes that teachers are the world's "real change-makers", announced that he will be sharing 50% of his prize money with his fellow finalists to support their incredible work.
In another first, the Global Teacher Prize 2020 winner's announcement was made at a virtual ceremony broadcast from the Natural History Museum in London by British actor-broadcaster Stephen Fry.

Dec 03, 2020

UK Author Anita Gets Prize for Story on Jallianwala Bagh

British Indian journalist and author Anita Anand's book that tells the story of a young man caught up in the 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre in Amritsar has won a prestigious history-literary prize in the UK. 'The Patient Assassin: A True Tale of Massacre, Revenge and the Raj' beat six other titles for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History 2020, awarded annually for a non-fiction book of specifically historical content.
The judges described it as a "genuine historical classic" that would be read for decades to come.

Infosys Prize, 2020

The Infosys prize, 2020 was announced. Gold medal carries prize money of hundred thousand USD and is awarded in six fields namely Humanities, engineering and computer science, mathematical Sciences, life sciences, Social Sciences and Physical Sciences. The winners of the award are Prachi Deshpande of the Centre of studies in Social Sciences and Humanities, Hari Balakrishnan of Massachusetts Institute of Technology for Engineering and Computer science, Rajan SankaraNarayanan of the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology for life sciences, Arindam Ghosh of Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, Sourav Chatterjee of Stanford university for mathematical Sciences and Raj Chetty of Harvard University for Social Sciences.

Dec 01, 2020

Goldman Environmental Prize 2020

An indigenous leader from the Ecuadorean Amazon is one of the winners of the Goldman Environmental Prize, which recognises grassroots activism.
Nemonte Nenquimo was chosen for her success in protecting 500,000 acres of rainforest from oil extraction.
She and fellow members of the Waorani Indigenous Group took the Ecuadorean government to court over its plans to put their territory up for sale.
Their 2019 legal victory set a legal precedent for indigenous rights.
For Nemonte Nenquimo, protecting the environment was less a choice than a legacy she decided she had to carry on.
The Goldman Environmental Prize is a prize awarded annually to grassroots environmental activists, one from each of the world's six geographic regions: Africa, Asia, Europe, Islands and Island Nations, North America, and South and Central America. The award is given by the Goldman Environmental Foundation headquartered in San Francisco, California. It is also called the Green Nobel.

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