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George Bugliarello Prize (award biennially)
The George Bugliarello Prize will be awarded to a superior interdisciplinary essay, review of research or analytical article published in American Scientist, Sigma Xi's bimonthly magazine of science and engineering.
The goal of the prize is to inspire thoughtful discourse about how technology, human society, our biological needs and the needs of other life on our planet can be advanced.
A prize of $5,000 will be awarded biennially, beginning in 2007. Articles published in American Scientist during 2005 and 2006 will be considered for the first prize.
Prospective authors are encouraged to submit an outline or abstract to the editors (editors@amsci.org) to determine the suitability of a proposed manuscript for publication in American Scientist. General advice for authors may be found online.
The new prize is endowed chiefly by gifts from the Teagle and Greenwall foundations honoring George Bugliarello, University Professor and president emeritus of Polytechnic University and 1992-93 president of Sigma Xi.
George Bugliarello
An engineer, educator, writer and thinker with a broad perspective and
a deep concern about the world prospect, George Bugliarello has
lectured and written on how humanity balances the biological, social
and mechanized components of our modern existence and how a
technological society achieves material prosperity while protecting
human rights, the environment and the quality of our personal
interaction. Bugliarello's background ranges from biomedical
engineering to fluid mechanics, to computer languages and
socio-technology. He is University Professor and president emeritus of
Polytechnic University in New York. He holds a doctorate in engineering
from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has received several
honorary degrees. His service includes participation as the U.S. member
of the Science for Stability Steering Group of the Scientific Affairs
Division of NATO and chairmanship of the Board on Infrastructure and
the Constructed Environment of the National Research Council. He has
been a consultant for UNESCO and OECD and a specialist for the State
Department in Venezuela and Central Africa. A member of the National
Academy of Engineering and founding fellow of the American Institute
for Medical and Biological Engineering, Bugliarello served as president
of Sigma Xi in 1992-93.
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Bugliarello Prize Recipients