ALA offers Recognition Awards and Grants

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Dollar General Literacy Foundation awards Youth Literacy grant to ALSC, YALSA

CHICAGO — The Dollar General Literacy Foundation has awarded a Youth Literacy grant in the amount of ­­$246,806 to the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) and the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA).

ALSC and YALSA will use the grant to support three important initiatives, El día de los niños/El día de los libros (Children's Day/Book Day), Teen Read Week™ and summer reading for teens.

“The El día de los niños/El día de los libros (Children's Day/Book Day) initiative is committed to introduce families to community resources that provide opportunities for learning through multiple literacies,” said Starr Latronica, ALSC president.  “The Dollar General Literacy Foundation’s continued support of this initiative is invaluable to libraries across the country.”

 “Summer reading and Teen Read Week™ are valuable tools used by libraries all over the country to support teen literacy efforts,” said YALSA President Shannon Peterson. “YALSA is thrilled to have the Dollar General Literacy Foundation continuing to support these important efforts.”

“The Dollar General Literacy Foundation is pleased to continue our support for El día de los Niños and Teen Read Week™,” said Rick Dreiling, Dollar General’s chairman and CEO. “By engaging children and teens in reading, a foundation for future success is built. We applaud the life enriching work of ALSC and YALSA and value our partnership.”

The Dollar General Literacy Foundation’s Youth Literacy grants are awarded to public libraries, schools and nonprofit organizations to help students who are below grade level or experiencing difficulty reading. 

Since its founding, Dollar General has been committed to supporting literacy and education. To further this support, the Dollar General Literacy Foundation was established in 1993 to improve the functional literacy of adults and families by providing grants to nonprofit organizations dedicated to the advancement of literacy.

For more information about the Dollar General Literacy Foundation or for a complete list of grant recipients, visit www.dgliteracy.org.

About Dollar General Corporation

Dollar General Corporation has been delivering value to shoppers for nearly 75 years. Dollar General helps shoppers Save time. Save money. Every day!® by offering products that are frequently used and replenished, such as food, snacks, health and beauty aids, cleaning supplies, basic apparel, house wares and seasonal items at low everyday prices in convenient neighborhood locations. With more than 11,000 stores in 40 states, Dollar General has more retail locations than any retailer in America. In addition to high quality private brands, Dollar General sells products from America's most-trusted manufacturers such as Procter & Gamble, Kimberly-Clark, Unilever, Kellogg's, General Mills, Nabisco, Hanes, PepsiCo and Coca-Cola. Learn more about Dollar General at www.dollargeneral.com.

About YALSA
For more than 50 years, YALSA has worked to build the capacity of libraries and librarians to engage, serve and empower teens. For more information about YALSA or to access national guidelines and other resources go to www.ala.org/yalsa, or contact the YALSA office by phone, 800-545-2433, ext. 4390; or e-mail: yalsa@ala.org.

About ALSC
ALSC, a division of the ALA, is the world’s largest organization dedicated to the support and enhancement of library service to children. With a network of more than 4,000 children’s and youth librarians, literature experts, publishers and educational faculty, ALSC is committed to creating a better future for children through libraries. To learn more about ALSC, visit ALSC’s website at http://www.ala.org/alsc.

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MediaCorp bags 18 medals at PromaxBDA awards

SINGAPORE — MediaCorp bagged 18 medals at the 2013 PromaxBDA Global Excellence Awards held in Los Angeles on June 20 (US time).

Channel 8 brought in four Gold medals for its campaigns for a Bruce Lee Movie Specials programme and the drama Joys Of Life.

Channel 5 bagged two Golds for its promotion campaigns for The Noose, including a smartphone/mobile app.

Channel U and MediaCorp’s Marketing Communications also bagged one Gold apiece.

Seven Silver medals and three Bronze ones were also awareded.

The PromaxBDA Awards competitions stand for marketing excellence in the media marketing space. It is regarded as the most prestigious awards for creative endeavor in the field.

PromaxBDA represents more than 10,000 companies and individuals at every major media organization, marketing agency, research company, strategic and creative vendor and technology provider.

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2010 JPL Outstanding Postdoctoral Research Awards

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Winners of the annual 2010 Postdoc Research Day gave seminars on their research and were presented with plaques to commemorate the event.

Ceremonies held in September honored four postdoctoral scholars for their outstanding research efforts at JPL.

The researchers won a competition at the Labs Postdoctoral Research Day, held in August. The day showcased the outstanding work of postdoctoral scholars in the fields of Earth Science, Astrophysics and Space Science, Planetary Science and Life Detection, and Technology, Instrumentation, and Engineering.

The winners delivered lectures on their work at the September 13 awards ceremony and were presented with commemorative plaques by JPL Chief Scientist Dan McCleese.

The four winners were:

Alexey Pankine (Planetary Science and Life Detection) for "Water Vapor Transport During Summer in the Martian Arctic"Carmen Boening (Earth Science) for "Record-High Ocean Bottom Pressure in the South Pacific Observed by GRACE"Jason Young (Astrophysics and Space Science) for "Electron Impact Excitation of Lyman-Birge-Hopfield Band Emissions"Cecile Jung (Technology, Instrumentation, and Engineering) for "Silicon Micromachining Technology for THz Applications"

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Discover JPL Brochure Receives Communicator Awards

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The Discover JPL brochure, developed in partnership with JPL's University Research Affairs office, is the recent recipient of several Communicator Awards that recognize excellence in communications.

The International Academy of Visual Arts has recently awarded several Communicator Awards to the team responsible for creating the Discover JPL brochure at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. The Communicator Awards are given out annually to recognize excellence in marketing and communications.

Discover JPL took home distinctions in the Print Category, for Non-Profit Brochure, Recruitment Brochure, and Overall Brochure Design. The brochure was designed by CMg Design Inc., under the direction of JPL’s University Research Affairs Office.

The Discover JPL brochure gives an inside look at JPL's collaborative relationships with the academic community. These partnerships provide accelerated innovation for NASA’s missions and the discovery of new science and technology opportunities. Highlighted in this brochure are features about how students have contributed to various science, engineering and technology projects at JPL.

To view the Discover JPL brochure, visit: http://scienceandtechnology.jpl.nasa.gov/files/JPL_Student_Research_Brochure_2010.pdf

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NASA Awards Space Technology Research Fellowship Grants

RELEASE : 11-246 NASA Awards Space Technology Research Fellowship Grants WASHINGTON -- NASA has selected the inaugural class of Space Technology Research Fellows. Eighty-one students will receive graduate student fellowships from NASA's Office of the Chief Technologist to pursue master's or doctoral degrees in relevant space technology disciplines at their respective institutions.

This first class of Space Technology Fellows is part of NASA's strategy to develop the technological foundation for its future science and exploration missions. The program's goal is to provide the nation with a pipeline of highly skilled engineers and technologists to improve U.S. competitiveness.

"These fellowships will develop America's technology leaders for tomorrow, leaders that will help us out-innovate, out-educate and out-build our competitors and maintain our leadership in space," NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said. "President Obama has said, 'America's competitiveness rests on the excellence of our citizens in technical fields.' These grants are an investment in America's intellectual capital and our nation's future."

NASA Space Technology Fellows will perform innovative space technology research while building the skills necessary to become future technological leaders. Selected candidates will perform graduate student research on their respective campuses and at NASA centers and nonprofit U.S. research and development laboratories.

For a list of fellowship recipients, their research institutions and their research topics, visit: http://go.usa.gov/BfN

The fellowships program is managed for NASA's Office of the Chief Technologist by the agency's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland. For information about the Office of the Chief Technologist and the fellowships program, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/oct  

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