Office of Science & Technology - ASciNA Awards 2009 Ceremony at the Austrian Embassy in Washington, DC

ASciNA Awards 2009 Ceremony at the Austrian Embassy in Washington, DC - an Event Report

bridges vol.24, December 2009 / Feature Article

by Dietrich Haubenberger

Office of Science and Technology, Embassy of Austria

For the second time, the ASciNA (acronym for Austrian Scientists and Scholars in North America) Award was awarded to young Austrian scientists for their excellent research conducted at North American research institutions. The ASciNA Award, established in 2008 through the initiative of former ASciNA President Dr. Eva Schernhammer, was awarded last year for the first time by Austrian Federal Minister for Science and Research Dr. Johannes Hahn during the prestigious Wittgenstein Prize Award Ceremony in Vienna, Austria (click here for more information on last year's ceremony).

Philipp Marxgut welcomes the ASciNA Awards 2009 ceremony participants.

This year, the Office of Science and Technology (OST) at the Embassy of Austria in Washington, DC, hosted the award ceremony. During a festive award ceremony at the Embassy, Philipp Marxgut, OST director and Austrian science attaché to the United States and Canada, welcomed around 60 attendees, many of them Austrian scientists from all parts of the US and Canada, who joined the awardees for their special evening. Attendees also included Dr. Günther Bischof, director of the Center for Austrian Culture and Commerce, University

Prof. Gary Cohen and Ambassador Christian Prosl.

of New Orleans, and Prof. Gary Cohen, director of the Center for Austrian Studies, University of Minnesota, who was awarded the Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art 1st Class that evening by Austrian Ambassador to the United States Dr. Christian Prosl.

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