2024 Stibitz-Wilson Honorees
Maya Ajmera
Ms. Ajmera is a globally recognized social entrepreneur. She is President and CEO of Society for Science, and Executive Publisher of the Society’s award-winning magazine, Science News. She founded Global Fund for Children (GFC), a nonprofit organization that invests in innovative, community-based organizations working with some of the world’s most vulnerable children, and is the award-winning author of more than 20 children’s books.
Dr. Charles Limb
Dr. Limb is the Francis A. Sooy Professor of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, the Chief of the Division of Otology, Neurotology and Skull Base Surgery, and the Director of the Douglas Grant Cochlear Implant Center at UC San Francisco. His current research focuses on the neural basis of musical creativity and perception in cochlear implant users. In 2022, he was named one of the Kennedy Center’s Next 50, a group of fifty national cultural leaders who are “moving us toward a more inspired, inclusive, and compassionate world.”
Dr. Russell Taylor
Dr. Taylor has more than 50 years of experience in robotics, and for the past 35 years, he’s been investigating how the three-way partnership between physicians, technology, and information can improve treatment processes. He is the Director of the Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics (LCSR), the author of over 600 peer-reviewed journal and conference publications, and a prolific patent holder. He has received numerous awards and honors, including election to the US National Academy of Engineering.
Dr. Irving Weissman
Dr. Weissman was raised in Great Falls, Montana, and after earning a BS from MSU in 1961, and an MD from Stanford University in 1965, he returned to Great Falls to start his scientific career at the McLaughlin Research Institute (now the Weissman-Hood Institute). He was the first scientist to identify and isolate mammalian blood-forming stem cells in mice, and clinical trials based on his work may lead to new methods for using the immune system to attack tumors.