This has the ring of truth to anyone who has ever been a part of any organization that confers awards.
Each year the department confers awards for both academic achievement and service to the department.
Although the awards are not the first to recognize achievements in opera — Opera News, a publication of the Metropolitan Opera Guild, confers awards to several individuals annually — they are the first to have such broad scope.
Since the Nobel Prize committee doesn't confer awards posthumously, it means that Franklin will never share in the scientific community's highest honor for her work.
She was a co-founder of The American Choreography Awards, which in the course of its decade=long run from 1994 to 2004, McDonald remembered on Saturday night, "some of America's premier actors, Robert De Niro and Robert Duvall, conferred awards on dancers.
The commission also tries to encourage the city to hire the best architects, in part by conferring design awards annually.
The foundation makes grants for medical research and confers awards for arts and letters.
In conferring his award, the Royal Swedish Academy focused on his work in structural macroeconomics, a method that can be applied to study how households and firms adjust their expectations at the same time as economic developments are taking place.
ISCB Fight against Ebola Award ISCB will confer the award, along with a prize of US$2,000, at the ISCB annual meeting, Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB), in July 2016, Orlando, Florida, US.
The department confers several awards annually to outstanding students.
Acting on advice from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the queen confers honorary awards on foreigners for important contributions to British interests.
