Award for Professor Fritz Finger
In recognition of his scientific work on granites and accessory minerals, Prof. Fritz Finger, Department of Chemistry and Physics of Materials, received the Bohuslav Cambel Medal from the Slovak Academy of Sciences.
Political Scientist, Reinhard Heinisch, Received a Lifetime Achievement Award
Reinhard Heinisch received the 2017 Science Award from the Margaretha Lupac Foundation. The Foundation for Parliamentarism and Democracy, which has been set up at the National Council, has been awarding a Democracy Prize and a Science Prize each year since 2004. The award was presented on Monday evening in Vienna.
Best Paper Award for Astrid Spatzier (IFFB Sport Science and Kinesiology)
For the study, “Public Relations and Education Communication: Is Creativity the Opposite of Knowledge? Effects of Knowledge Transfer on the Mediation of Creativity. An Austrian Empirical Study Comparing Three Education Types”, Astrid Spatzier (IFFB Sport- und Bewegungswissenschaft) and Jessica Breu (Master Graduate KoWi) received the Best Paper Award 2017.