Got Tech? $25,000 Gunnerman Award up for grab: Nominations Deadline August 1, 2003
Nevada's innovators and inventors have until August 1 to submit nominations for the $25,000 Rudolf W. Gunnerman Silver State Award for Excellence in Science and Technology. Administered by the Desert Research Institute, the annual award was established by Reno area inventor, engineer and industrialist Rudolf W. Gunnerman and the Gunnerman Foundation to recognize excellence in science and technology by a Nevadan.
DRI President Stephen G. Wells said the Gunnerman Award program includes a selection process involving both private and government sector economic development leaders. "This award will recognize achievement that clearly satisfies a societal need either through fundamental science or its application," Wells said.
Among other criteria for the award, Wells said the work leading to the achievements recognized by the Gunnerman Award must have been primarily conducted within Nevada.
Those interested in submitting nominations can visit the award's pages in DRI's web site at: http://ia.dri.edu/Gunnerman or contact Dr. Roger Jacobson, DRI Interim Vice President for Research, at (775) 673-7322 (or Roger.Jacobson@dri.edu). The award's formal presentation will beheld this fall.
Gunnerman is founder and chairman of Clean Fuels Technology, Inc., a Reno company engaged in the development and commercialization of low-polluting fuels for use in power generation and transportation, and chairman and CEO of SulphCo, Inc., which has developed and commercialized a process for removing nearly all of the sulfur from petroleum products and reducing vehicle and power plant emissions. He holds 12 U.S. patents and more than 70 international patents in the area of energy-related sciences. He has devoted a significant portion of his life to studying the effects of air pollution and its technological solutions.
A nonprofit, statewide division of
the University and Community College System of Nevada, DRI pursues a full-time
program of basic and applied environmental research on a local, national, and
international scale. Nearly 500 full- and part-time scientists, technicians,
and support staff conduct some 150 research projects at DRI annually. More than
85 percent of DRI's annual $33 million operating budget consists of research
grants and contracts obtained by its scientists. The balance is received from
the state of Nevada for administrative costs.