Several ALS staff were recognized by Berkeley Lab Director Mike Witherell at the annual Director’s Awards ceremony on November 10.
Steve Kevan, retired Division Director, received the Berkeley Lab Prize – Lifetime Achievement Award “for foundational work on the science cases for ALS and ALS-U, and for achievements related to building the Lab’s culture of Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accountability as a User, as Advisor, as Division Deputy for Science, and as Division Director for the ALS.”
The ALS Structural Biology Beamline Team – Marc Allaire, Kathryn Burnett, Randall Cayford, Scott Classen, Jeff Dickert, Sayan Gupta, Michal Hammel, James Holton, Greg Hura, Carolyn Larabell, Mark Les Gros, Stacey Ortega, Daniil Prigozhin, Corie Ralston, Daniel Rosenberg, Kevin Royal, Anthony Rozales, Banumathi Sankaran, John Taylor received the Director’s Award for Special Achievement – Societal Impact “for bringing structural biology solutions to the world by providing synchrotron data to guide vaccine and therapeutic development and to carry out basic virus biology science in response to SARS-CoV-2.”
The Infant Warmer (DreamWarmer) Team – Ashok Gadgil, Howdy Goudey, Vi Rapp, Jonathan Slack – received the Director’s Award for Special Achievement – Societal Impact “for Ashok Gadgil, Vi Rapp, Jonathan Slack, and Howdy Goudy’s design of the “DreamWarmer,” an innovative, non-electric infant warmer that uniquely addresses the challenges of resource-limited settings and has been proven to reduce ’all-cause’ infant mortality by a factor of three.”
