Nevada inventors vie for $25,000 Gunnerman Award; Nomination deadline is Nov. 30 </head> <body> <IMG SRC="/Graphics/Newstitle.gif" alt="DRI News Releases"> <p class="style3"> Contacts: Ron Kalb, DRI Director of Public Information <a href="mailto:ron.kalb@dri.edu">ron.kalb@dri.edu</a> (702) 862-5420 (office), (702) 498-8916 (cell)<br> <p class="style3"> All DRI News Releases available at: <a href="http://news.dri.edu/"> http://news.dri.edu/</a> </p> <hr> <p class="style4"> October 18, 2004 </p> <p class="style1"> <strong> Nevada inventors vie for $25,000 Gunnerman Award; Nomination deadline is Nov. 30 </strong></p> <p> <hr> <p class="style2"> <strong>Las Vegas </strong> -- If necessity is the mother of invention and hard work is its own reward, what's the reward for being a hard-working inventor? </p> <p class="style2"> It's hard to say, but $25,000 isn't a bad start. And that's what the winning Nevada innovator will take home this year in the quest for the Rudolf W. Gunnerman Silver State Award for Excellence in Science and Technology. </p> <p class="style2"> Nevada's innovators and inventors have until Nov. 30 to submit nominations. </p> <p class="style2"> 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 "the best and brightest" in Nevada's science and technology community. </p> <p class="style2"> 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 recognizes achievement that clearly satisfies a societal need either through fundamental science or its application," Wells said. </p> <p class="style2"> 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. </p> <p class="style2"> Those interested in submitting nominations can visit the award's pages in DRI's web site at: <a href="http://ia.dri.edu/Gunnerman">http://ia.dri.edu/Gunnerman </a> or contact DRI Vice President for Business and Government Relations Dr. Scott Hauger at (702) 862-5303 (or <a href="mailto:scott.hauger@dri.edu">scott.hauger@dri.edu </a>). The award's formal presentation will be held early next year. </p> <p class="style2"> 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. </p> <p class="style2"> Gunnerman has devoted a significant portion of his life to studying the effects of air pollution and its technological solutions. </p> <p class="style2"> 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. </p> <hr> <p class="style4"> <A HREF="/nr2004/04newsreleasemenu.html"> News Release Main Page</A> </p> </BODY> </HTML>