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| Kamal Bawa gets Gunnerus award for Sustainability |
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| Written by Breaking News Online Team | |
| Saturday, 18 February 2012 20:52 | |
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Breaking News! India-born biologist Dr. Kamal Bawa has bagged the world's first international award for outstanding scientific work that promotes sustainable development globally.  Dr. Bawa, an eminent Professor of Biology at the University of Massachusetts in Boston, will receive the Gunnerus Sustainability Award from the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters (DKNVS) at a function in Trondheim, on April 17.  He will receive the Gunnerus Gold Medal and the award of 1 million Norwegian Kronor (about $190,000).  The Gunnerus award is the first major international prize for outstanding scientific work that promotes sustainable development globally, and will be awarded every two years starting this year.  The award is named after DKNVS’ founder, Bishop Johan Ernst Gunnerus (1718-1773), and is the result of collaboration between DKNVS, Sparebank1 SMN and the society Technoport.  Meanwhile, DKNVS has been responsible for the international launch, and the selection of the winner of this award.  Norway as a country is associated with the term "sustainability" from former Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland's report to the U.N. Now its environmental capital, Trondheim, has established the world's first major award in the globally important new research area of sustainability.  Dr Bawa is most noted for his pioneering work on population biology in rainforest areas. His wide span of work includes groundbreaking biological discoveries made in Central America and in the Western Ghats and the Himalayas in India.  He is specially noted for the establishment, and as president, of the Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE) in Bangalore. Until recently, he also held the Ruffolo Giorgio Fellowship in Sustainability Science and Bullard Fellowship at the Harvard University.  Dr. Bawa told the media that he was very pleased over the recognition. It will definitely encourage the young scholars towards working for the sustainable development. |
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