The Sidney Prize and Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize
The Sidney Prize recognizes solutions that demonstrate that peace with justice is possible and which inspire and equip people to create such a reality in their lives and communities. The Sidney Lanier Prize recognizes and commemorates the rich literary tradition and longstanding writing about the South, honoring its deep literary past and longstanding writing traditions. It recognizes works that push against social conventions while elevating artistic standards while upholding human decency. Mercer University Center for Human Decency established this award in 2012 and awards it annually. The winner receives a prize award of $10k. Judging committee comprises faculty members, students and staff at Mercer and may award multiple prizes depending on the work submitted for consideration.
Overland Magazine recently unveiled the winners of the 2023 Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize. Annie Zhang won with Who Rattles the Night?, an entry involving two characters living with ghosts. Annie received $5,000 AUD as well as publication in Overland Autumn edition; two runners-up received $750 each.
Sidney Altman won the 1989 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his discovery of ribonuclease-P, an enzyme which catalyzes chemical reactions without the assistance of proteins. His finding challenged scientific dogma that molecules could either carry information such as RNA or catalyze reactions separately – but not both at once. To verify his discovery, Altman synthesized only its RNA component and found it still catalyzed chemical reactions without an accompanying protein component.
During World War II, a son of Polish and Russian immigrants joined the Royal Navy as a Petty Officer Radio Mechanic from Liverpool. Serving on board HMS Collingwood, HMS Norfolk and in the Indian Ocean earned him the nickname Sidney Black; therefore in recognition of his service the University of the Highlands and Islands created an annual scholarship honoring him called Sidney Black Memorial Engineering Scholarship to encourage women into engineering fields. It will be presented annually to an outstanding female graduate student demonstrating academic success, personal traits and contributions towards society/student life.
The Sidney Prize recognizes exceptional journalism published within a month. Nominations for each month must be received by midnight of the last day of that month and can come either in print or digital form. Winners receive a $500 honorarium as well as an Edward Sorel certificate designed especially for them; all prize funding comes from Sidney Edelstein’s estate.
Each year, SHOT presents the Sidney Edelstein Prize to recognize an exceptional scholarly book on the history of technology. To qualify, a book must shed light on an innovative technological advance (or group thereof) in an insightful and original manner, furthering research in this field and being of significant relevance for historians of technology both nationally and globally.