Karen Knudsen named 2022 ResearcHERS National Ambassador

Beverly Ginsburg Cooper honored with ACCA Career Achievement award

The Association of Corporate Career Advancement presented its inaugural ACCA Career Achievement Award to Beverly Ginsburg Cooper, managing director at the Huron Consulting Group, on March 16. Given at the CCA Annual Business Meeting in Seattle, the ACCA Career Achievement Award recognizes current members of the Association of Cancer Center Administrators or former members of the Cancer Centers Administrators Forum who have demonstrated exemplary dedication, leadership, and lasting contributions to the field of cancer administration.

March 28, 2025

Vol.51 No.12

In Brief

UA research team receives $1.2M ACS grant to study link between neighborhood environment and cancer risk

A University of Arizona Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health researcher has received a $1.2 million grant from the American Cancer Society to evaluate potential links between the neighborhood environment and cancer risk.

March 21, 2025

Vol.51 No.11

In Brief

W. Kimryn Rathmell awarded the ACS 2025 Medal of Honor

Former NCI Director W. Kimryn Rathmell was awarded the American Cancer Society 2025 Medal of Honor.

March 14, 2025

Vol.51 No.10

In Brief

Ze’ev Ronai receives NCI Outstanding Investigator Award

Ze’ev Ronai, a cancer investigator and director of the Translational Research Institute at Cedars-Sinai, received an Outstanding Investigator Award from NCI.

February 21, 2025

Vol.51 No.07

The War on Cancer: After half a century of progress, a promising prognosis may be Richard Nixon’s greatest legacy

Fifty-four years ago, in his State of the Union Message in January 1971, President Nixon proposed a visionary and vigorous new challenge. He said “The time has come in America when the same kind of concentrated effort that split the atom and took man to the moon” should be applied to finding a cure for cancer. He followed up by requesting an appropriation of $100 million, and the promise to ask for whatever additional funds could be effectively used.

February 14, 2025

Vol.51 No.06

By Jim Byron