Awards
This year saw hundreds of applicants from across the life, health, physical, earth, environmental, and data sciences. Essays from the winners and honorees appear in the journals Cell and iScience.
We are thrilled to announce the top 5 contestants who have been selected for their groundbreaking proposals.
The beauty of the coral reef led Antonella Rivera to study the ugly sewage that blights it. But she had to overcome gender and nationality barriers to forge her unique path in science.
Gaining funding (and trust) for a freshwater algal bloom alert system in Sri Lanka
A desire to impact people and planet has led Dr Tasrina Rabia Chodhury to focus on environmental contaminants. Here, she highlights potential solutions — and how open access publishing can help democratize knowledge.
The 2024 OWSD-Elsevier Foundation Award for Women Scientists recognizes researchers from Bangladesh, Honduras, Sri Lanka, Tanzania and Uganda.
The 2024 OWSD-Elsevier Foundation Awards have recognized women-led science from more than 20 low- and middle-income countries since 2013
This researcher is developing eco-friendly insect control methods to protect crops — and sharing her work with farmers in Benin and beyond
Accelerating the careers of over 50 women researchers, the partnership has recognized prize-winning science from more than 20 developing countries since 2013.
The 2023 OWSD-Elsevier Foundation Award for Women Scientists taps researchers from Benin, Bolivia, Guatemala, Palestine, Mongolia, South Africa and Sri Lanka.
For universal issues like plastic pollution, open access is vital to help scientists replicate research, says Prof Gawsia W Chowdhury of Bangladesh.
Science can be democratized globally through open access, says Dr Heyddy Calderon, although funding opportunities remain a key challenge.
