2020 Communicator Award to Robert Arlinghaus — special one-time prize to Christian Drosten

The Communicator Award, conferred by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) and the Stifterverband, will be presented this year to Professor Dr. Robert Arlinghaus, an expert in integrative fisheries management. The researcher, who works at the Humboldt University of Berlin and the Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB), will receive the…

Maibach to receive funding to help consortium hone focus on health and climate equity

Edward W. Maibach, Director, Center for Climate Change Communication; Faculty, Communication, is set to receive $247,858 from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to support the Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health in sharpening its focus on health and climate equity. The Consortium was launched in 2016 by Mason and seven prominent medical societies. The…

Substituting the next-best protein

When an actor is unable to perform in the theatre, an understudy–ideally one with some practice in the role–can take her place on stage. A study from Dr. Bernard Jasmin’s laboratory at the University of Ottawa and published today in Nature Communications shows that the same is true of proteins. Its results point the way…