2024 Stibitz-Wilson Honorees
Maya Ajmera
Maya Ajmera is President and CEO of Society for Science, and Executive Publisher of the Society’s award-winning magazine, Science News. Maya is a globally recognized social entrepreneur. 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.
Charles Limb
Dr. Limb is not your typical neurosurgeon. In addition to performing complex brain surgeries, he has spent years studying the neural basis of musical perception and creativity. In his popular TED Talk, "This is Your Brain on Improv," Limb explores how the brain operates when an artist spontaneously composes music.
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 has received numerous awards and honors, including election to the US National Academy of Engineering.
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.