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This is self-indulgent self-aggrandising narcissism at its
purest. As if the rest of my site isn't, but I collected digital
medals ("digimedals", cf. Special Agent
Oso) when it was less uncool to collect them. See also: my CV and my research group's vanity
section.
- April 17, 2024: The 2024
CTSI Annual Forum showcased our work on the multiscale
analysis and validation of effective drug combinations targeting
driver KRAS mutations in non-small cell lung cancer which was
named finalist for a Buffalo Translational Consortium Clinical
Research Achievement Award.
- April 4, 2023: An
article about various grants we received in 2022 totalling $3-4
million was published in JSMBS News.
- February 24, 2023: My image
of a lake in the Chilean Andes was promoted to a quality
image on Wikimedia Commons.
- February 21, 2023: An
article about our NCATS ASPIRE Reduction-to-Practice Challenge grand
prize victory was published in JSMBS News.
- November 23, 2022: The astrophotograph of the Jellyfish
Nebula was honoured
as the International Winner in the 2021
International Wiki Science Competition in the astronomy
category. The images of Sharpless
216 (also promoted as a quality
image as well as a featured
picture) and the Heart
nebula (featured
picture) were International Runners-Up. This was also reported
on Facebook,
Instagram, Twitter,
and LinkedIn.
- October 19, 2022: We
were named winners of the NCATS Reduction-to-Practice challenge
grand prize (stage 2, milestone 3).
- June 6, 2022. The astrophotograph of the Flying
Bat and Squid nebulae Sh2-129/Ou4 widefield (c-shorgb) was
promoted to a featured
picture on Wikimedia Commons.
- June 3, 2022. The astrophotograph of the Flying
Bat and Squid nebulae Sh2-129/Ou4 widefield (c-shorgb) was
promoted to a quality
image on Wikimedia Commons.
- May 2, 2022: We were named winners of the NCATS
ASPIRE Reduction-to-Practice challenge stage 2, milestone 2.
- April 22, 2022: The astrophotograph of sh2-216
was promoted to a
featured picture on Wikimedia Commons.
- April 19, 2022: The astrophotograph of sh2-216
was promoted to
quality image status on Wikimedia Commons.
- March 31, 2022: The astrophotograph of the Jellyfish
Nebula was honoured
with the Jury's Prize in the 2021
National Wiki Science competition in the astronomy category and
will be selected to represent the US in the International
Competition along with three other images that were also selected as
finalists (Heart
nebula, Sharpless
216, NGC
7822).
- March 24, 2022: An article
on the Composer blog about my investing philosophy.
- March 13, 2022: My astrophotograph of the Jellyfish
nebula was promoted to a featured
picture on Wikimedia Commons.
- February 9, 2022: My astrophotograph of the Heart
nebula was promoted to a featured
picture highlighting the finest images on Wikipedia.
- January 13, 2022: My astrophotograph of the Heart
nebula was promoted to a featured
picture on Wikimedia Commons.
- September 29, 2021: We were named winners of the NCATS
ASPIRE Reduction-to-Practice challenge stage 2, milestone 1.
- July 1, 2021: The astrophotograph of the Elephant
Trunk's nebula was promoted to a quality
image on Wikimedia Commons.
- June 13, 2021: The astrophotograph of the Flying
Bat and Squid nebulae Sh2-129/Ou4 widefield (c-shorgb) was
selected as the TSS
APOD posted on this
thread.
- May 1, 2021: The astrophotograph of the NGC7822
nebula and open cluster in Cepheus was selected as the TSS
APOD posted on this
thread.
- April 30, 2021: The astrophotograph of the NGC7822
nebula and open cluster in Cepheus was selected as the Stellar Shot of the
Week. (See original write up here.)
- April 23, 2021: We were named winners of the NCATS
ASPIRE Reduction-to-Practice challenge stage 1.
- March 19, 2021: The astrophotograph of the Jellyfish
nebulae
Ced73/Ced74/IC443/IC444/LBN840/LBN841/LBN844/Sh2-248/Sh2-249/SNR
G189.0+03.0/VdB75 narrowfield - 37h was selected as the TSS
APOD posted on this
thread.
- December 23, 2020: Shotgun
Drug Repurposing Aids Fight Against COVID-19, University at
Buffalo School of Medicine Insight newsletter. This is
one of several articles that have been written about our work on
COVID-19 but it's really awesome work being done by my group,
particular Will Mangione and Zack Falls that I want to highlight
here (also it's a nice picture of the three of us, which I will also
post on our group pictures page.
- December 16, 2020: Translational
Spotlight Volume 10, Issue 24 highlighting the below
collaboration with Onai, Inc. under faculty headlines.
- December 3, 2020: Artificial
Intelligence Collaboration Seeking To Hasten COVID-19 Insights
Scienmag Science Magazine highlighted a NSF grant and
collaboration with Onai, Inc. and Gaurav Chopra to use our CANDO
drug discovery repurposing and EHR records to find therapies against
COVID-19.
- October 3, 2020: The astrophotograph of the Squid
nebula Ou4 (c-orgb) was selected as the TSS
APOD posted on this
thread.
- August 12, 2020: The astrophotograph of the Heart
(Ced7Cr26/IC1805/LBN654/Mel15/Sh2-190) and Fishead
(Ced6/IC1795/LBN645/NGC896) Nebulae (c-sho) was selected as the
TSS
APOD posted on this
thread.
- July 5, 2020: The astrophotograph of the The
Wizard Nebula Ced206/Cr452/LBN511/NGC7380?Sh2-142/Sh2-143
(c-sho) was selected as the TSS
APOD posted on this
thread.
- July 3, 2020: Suny
Research Responds Issue 14 listing our COVID-19 research
as noteworthy.
- June 21, 2020: The astrophotograph of the Sh2-132
the Lion Nebula in Ha was selected as the TSS
APOD posted on this
thread.
- June 1, 2020: The astrophotograph of the IC1396
Nebula including the Elephant's Trunk was selected as a national
finalist in the 2019 Wiki Science Competition in the United
States, to be represented in the International Competition. View further details of the
image on AstroBin.
- April 1, 2020: CTSI
Translational Studies Pilot which was led by Zack Falls and
Sarah Mullin along with myself and Peter Elkin.
- October 31, 2019: I received an University at Buffalo
Exceptional Scholar - Sustained Achievement Award:
- October 28, 2019: I was named an NCATS ASPIRE Design Challenge
Award winner:
- April 15, 2017: My application to the MacArthur Foundation's
100&Change Competition in 2016 was named a Top 200 Applicant. The
application's was one standard deviation greater (better) than the
median score of the top 200 applicants.
- May 4, 2013: A
blog missive on my CANDO talk was published by Jen Davis.
- September 27, 2011: My
purchase of a Colbert Super PAC T-shirt was revealed juxtaposed to the
Stephen and Melinda Gates Foundation.
- July 20, 2010: I won the 2010 NIH Director's Pioneer Award:
- May 21, 2010: I won the 2010
Undergraduate Research Mentor Award (snaphot of web page with
mentee comment).
- November 24, 2009: IBM/World
Community Grid won the 2009 Asian Corporate Social Responsibility
(CSR) Award for the Nutritious Rice in the World
project in the area of poverty alleviation that I lead.
- October 7, 2008: An automated approach for analysing protein
function developed by my group is
highlighted by the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR).
See
PLoS Computational Biology 4(9): e1000181 to read the paper.
- July 14, 2008: More than 200 media
articles have been written about the Nutritious Rice for the
World project that I lead, including in:
- The New York Times
- Business Week
- Fortune,
- CNN Money
- The Times of India
- and a variety of other international media outlets
- January 30, 2007: The Washington Research
Foundation's 25th
annual report showcases our research on therapeutic discovery.
- November 3, 2006: My play review of All in the
Timing was plagiarised
by the Minnesota Monticello Times.
- October 10, 2006: The paper entitled "Identifying
inhibitors of the SARS coronavirus proteinase" by Ekachai
Jenwitheesuk and myself published in Bioorganic
& Medicinal Chemistry Letters 13: 3989-3992, 2003
resulted in a Most Cited Paper 2003 - 2006 Award.
- June 27, 2006: StudySphere seleted my
primer on
the ethics of intellectual property as one of the
best educational resources on the Web.
- June 25, 2005: The Seattle Times
published a
letter I wrote in response to John McKay defending the Patriot Act.
- February 10, 2005: An Article about my
New Investigator Science in Medicine Lecture was published in
University Week.
- December 25, 2004: The Seattle Times
published a
letter I wrote about biological evolution being a fact and not a
theory (i.e., the process of evolution is different from
theories explaining how evolution occurs).
- November 1, 2004: An article on systems biology in Northwest
Science and Technology Autumn 2004 issue featured our
research.
- October 9, 2003: The
University of Washington's The Daily and a variety
of other media outlets have written something about my TR100 (world's
top young innovators) selection by MIT Technology
Review.
- July 7, 2003: The New
York Times published a
letter I wrote about genetic engineering, stating my belief that
directed genetic engineering (the ability to self-evolve) is a
natural consequence of evolution (i.e., if the ability to
self-evolve arises, it will be selectively advantageous).
- April 5, 2002: The Seattle Times published
a
letter I wrote about the Israeli-Palestianian conflict, arguing
why suicide bombing is a logical strategic decision made during a
war.
- January 11, 2001: The
Infinite Nietzsche: The Three Metamorphoses was published in The
Cosmic Powers Unlimited Fanzine (issue #55).
- October 27, 2001: An interview
about Free Music was published in Tinfoil.
- October 4, 2001: The Seattle Times published a
letter I wrote in response to Michael Kelly's article attacking
pacifists.
- March 1, 2001: An article
about the Advanced Technology Initiative under which I was
recruited in University Week.
- February 26, 2001: The Bangkok Post published my letter
about the presence of the Falungong group in Thailand.
- January 31, 2001: The The Free Music
Philosophy was cited at Allsound.org.
- May 18, 2000: The The RIAA
vs. Free Music article was duplicated at MusicDish.
- March 1, 2000: Creativity
and Ownership: Where is the Balance?, The Future of
Music, and The Free Music
Philosophy were published in the book Libres Enfants Du Savoir
Numérique.
- February 1, 2000: Forked a process representing my life at the University of
Washington. (That is, this is the official
fork
start date for my career as a professor.)
- February 1, 2000: The TWISTED HELICES logo
was used by MusicDish in a
novel way! Also, the Beam me up,
Hilary and the DiY Guide to Making
Music articles were duplicated at MusicDish.
- January 29, 2000: The Beam me up,
Hilary article was duplicated at mp3.com.
- October 5, 1999: The Webmaster Certification Program at
Pennsylvania State University is studying my musings on good and
bad design on the web.
- September 1, 1999: An article
in The Pitt News mentions my ULC/CARB "religion".
- July 11, 1999: Music Ramblings
was given a Top100 Distinctive Music Sites award.
- July 6, 1999: Free Music:
Progress and Prospects was published in MusicDish.
- July 5, 1999: The Free Music
Philosophy was referenced in Upside
Magazine in an article titled Can't Stop the
Music.
- June 30, 1999: The Free Music
Philosophy was published in MusicDish.
- June 21, 1999: The Future of
Music
was published in Auricle.
- June 4, 1999: The The Future of
Music was published in MusicDish.
- February 10, 1999: The Free Music Philosophy and
the The Future
of Music articles were referenced in Brett Watson's article
Philosophies
of Free Software and Intellectual Property.
- January, 1999: The story
about a serious car crash I was involved in a long time ago was
featured in In Motion magazine.
- December, 1999: The Free Music Philosophy
was referenced in Feyo Kolff's law school thesis titled The
Harmonic Highway.
- December 18, 1998: The Free Music Philosophy was
referenced in the New
York Times.
- December 8, 1998: The future of music
article was published on mp3.com.
- December 2, 1998: The future of music
article was published in the Shareware Music Machine News.
- August 6, 1998: MPEG3.com sitelist ranking (three stars out of
five) for the Free Music
Philosophy.
- July 23, 1998: Links2Go Key Resource award in the Pink Floyd
topic.
- July 18, 1998: The Free Music Philosophy was
referenced in the print version of Billboard Magazine.
- June 12, 1998: The Free Music Philosophy was
referenced in
Wired
News and Fox
News
with regards to the OnLine Guitar Archive (OLGA) being shut down.
- April 20, 1998: Extra Crispy
Award.
- April 10, 1998: A
reference to the Free Music Philosophy on mp3.com.
- March 8, 1998: The
Teddy Bair Award.
- March 8, 1998: The
Critical Mass Award.
- March 8, 1998: The Stines
Award.
- March 8, 1998: A + Web Design
Approved Award.
- October 7, 1997: The Bunny
Award for the best web page.
- September 25, 1997: The Free Music Philosophy was
a Surfer's Pick
in Yahoo!.
- July 11, 1997: The Free Music Philosophy was
featured in an
article in Forbes online.
- June 30, 1997: A Touch of
Magick award.
- June 23, 1997: JAUP
award.
- June 20, 1997:
Lycos Top 5% listing for the The Cheesy Primus Page.
- June 10, 1997: The Free Music Philosophy was
featured in an
article in Wired News.
- June 5, 1997: The First Annual Montgomery Burns Award for
Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Excellence.
- May 27, 1997: Webmeister award.
- May 20, 1997: Gee! award.
- April 15, 1997: First
Internet Knight in The Internet
Honours!
- March 26, 1997: MusicSearch Site of the Day.
- March 18, 1997:
The
Net's Best Bets award.
- January 1, 1997: A short excerpt about the Free Music Philosophy was
featured in the January
1997 GNU's Bulletin.
- November 10, 1996: The Cheesy Primus page was
referenced in an article titled Chattering
Class in The
Washington Post.
- October 13, 1996: The newsgroup alt.fan.ram-samudrala
with the topic "The War Against Intellectual Property" was
created by a Matthew H. Fields (note that this was created as a
response against my views on intellectual property (in a
humourous way to get rid of me)).
- Sometime, 1996: Internet Success Top 100 award (in the
entertainment category) for my home
page.
- Sometime, 1996: GameSpot
HotSpot award for my
essay on Time Travel.
- June 30, 1996: Personal Home
Page Award for the week of June 30, 1996.
- Sometime, 1996: My home page and the Cheesy Primus page are rated
among the top 5% of all sites on the Internet by Point Survey. You
can read the reviews by clicking here
and here.
The page also appears in their book containing the top 1000 sites on
the Web.
- November 7, 1995: The Cheesy Primus
page was Rock Site of the Day.
- October, 1995: May 14, 1995: The Free Music Philosophy was
referenced in an article titled Pirates on the Internet
in the October 1995 issue of Musicians' Magazine.
- May 14, 1995: The Free
Music Philosophy was
referenced in an article titled Music wants to be free on the
cyberspace frontier in the San Diego Union-Tribune.
- April 28, 1995: My Eagles Hell Freezes Over
concert review was referenced in an article titled The
Eagles are landing at Sandstone in the Music section of the
Kansas City Star.
- November 4, 1994: The Cheesy Primus
page was voted Best WWW Band Page in a poll that was initially
part of the Ultimate Band List when
it was first created.
- November 4, 1994: Science
magazine did a cool feature
on the Center for Advanced Research in Biotechnology (CARB)
where I did my graduate work which tells people about the research
I'm doing (p863).
Ram Samudrala ||
me@ram.org