Professor Jacek Oleksyn wins the 2018 Poland – U.S. Science Award
Prof. Jacek Oleksyn from the PAS Institute of Dendrology and Prof. Peter Reich from the University of Minnesota, received the 2018 Poland – US Science Award (PLUS Award) in appreciation of their joint theoretical studies on the impact of Earth's climate change on trees and plants.
Two researchers, who have worked together for more than 25 years, not only have made a number of advancements in their field but also have jointly published 87 articles, including in Science, Nature, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and more than 30 in leading plant biology and ecology journals.
The award was presented by Piotr Wilczek, the Polish Ambassador to the United States, at the headquarters of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Washington, D.C.
The PLUS Award is granted jointly by the Foundation for Polish Science, the largest non-governmental institution supporting science in Poland, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world’s largest scientific society and a leading publisher of Science magazine. The aim of the award is to emphasize the importance of Polish-American scientific cooperation and show the outcomes that result from complementary work on the part of both scientists.
