Two Caltech Researchers Receive Frontiers of Knowledge Award

For their work in information and communication technologies, and biomedicine, Carver Mead, Moore Professor Emeritus of Engineering and Applied Science, and Alexander Varshavsky, Smits Professor of Cell Biology, have been honored by the BBVA Foundation as recipients of 2011 Frontiers of Knowledge awards. The BBVA Foundation—a social responsibility arm of the multinational Spanish banking group Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA)—presents the 400,000 euro (approximately $520,000) awards to recognize world-class research and "contributions of lasting impact for their originality, theoretical significance, and ability to push back the frontiers of the known world." For more information on the awards, and to read profiles on the winners, click here.