'Investigator' award for prof

Matthew DeLisa, Cornell assistant professor of chemical engineering, center, accepts the James D. Watson Investigator Award in Rensselaer, N.Y., last month in a ceremony hosted by the New York State Office of Science, Technology and Academic Research (NYSTAR). Roland Schmitt, chairman of the NYSTAR advisory council, left, and Russell W. Bessette, M.D., NYSTAR executive director, right, present the award to DeLisa. The James D. Watson Investigator program recognizes and supports "top early career investigators performing research in the life sciences and enabling sciences of the life sciences" at New York's academic, public, and not-for-profit private research institutions. Photo courtesty of NYSTAR