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The German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina is greatly honoured by receiving the Gold Medal of the Academia Europaea. On this occasion, it might be appropriate to talk about the role of academies in science-based policy advice. The authors would like to address the question: what general aims should the academies achieve – particularly in respect to biomedicine and the life sciences?

Linda Knodel is chief nurse executive and senior vice president of national patient care services for Kaiser Permanente, where she leads nearly 63,000 nurses. Knodel reports to Gregory A. Adams, executive vice president and group president. Prior to joining Kaiser Permanente in 2017, Knodel served as senior vice president and chief nursing officer for Mercy Health System, a large Catholic health care system serving residents in Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma. Knodel has decades of experience and expertise in leadership across inpatient, ambulatory, and continuum-of-care settings. She is a past president of the American Organization for Nursing Leadership (AONL), and was the 2016 recipient of the American College of Healthcare Executives Gold Medal Award, which recognizes leaders who have made significant contributions to the health care profession.

After her Olympic gold medal winning performance (her third over two Olympiads) as a member of the 4 × 100 metre relay team in 1968, US sprinter Wyomia Tyus dedicated the victory to fellow ...

У 2018 році стоматологічний факультет Львівського національного медичного університету імені Данила Галицького відзначає 60 років від часу створення. За цей час факультет став потужним центром з підготовки лікарів-стоматологів і його здобутками сьогодні можна пишатися. Створення стоматологічного факультету в ЛДМІ був своєрідним підсумком багаторічних старань не одного покоління університетських професорів, лікарів-стоматологів та громадян у Львові та які науковими здобутками і своєю працею впродовж ХІХ–ХХ сторіччя створили відповідні умови. Адже навчальна дисципліна «Мистецтво зуболікування (одонтологія)» вперше з’явилася у навчальних планах студентів-медиків Львівського університету ще в 1828 році. Її почав викладати професор «одонтології» Карл Прокоп Каліґа, а згодом продовжив хірург, магістр зуболікування Вінцент Штраскі. Професор Каліґа написав книгу «Про хвороби зубів і засоби їх лікування», яка була видана у Відні (1838), Львові (1840) та Мілані (1841). З 1902 року стоматологію викладав доцент (згодом професор) Андрій Ґонька. У 1907 році розпочинає роботу амбулаторія дентистики Львівського університету, метою якої було надання безкоштовної стоматологічної допомоги населенню. Разом з професором А. Ґонькою працював доцент Теодор Богосєвіч, який після смерті професора у 1909 році протягом певного часу керував клінікою та читав курс стоматології. Згодом клініка отримує назву інституту дентистики та фактично набуває статусу сучасної кафедри, яку з 1913 до 1941 рр. очолював професор Антон Цєшинський. Він першим запропонував правило ізометрії в рентґенології (прицільний знімок зуба) та метод місцевого знеболення новокаїном з адреналіном (1906), був автором першого в світі атласу (1907) та підручника (1911) з рентґенстоматології, праць з реорганізації стоматологічної освіти, виокремлення стоматології як самостійної галузі природничих наук тощо. Вагомий внесок професора А. Цєшинського у розвиток світової стоматологічної науки засвідчує те, що у 1936 році він був удоcтоєний міжнародної нагороди Світової Федерації Дентистів (FDI) – Дипломом і Золотою Медаллю Міллера. У липні 1941 року Антон Цєшинський був розстріляний гестапо разом з іншими львівськими професорами на Вулецьких пагорбах. У 1958 році в Львівському державному медичному інституті було відкрито стоматологічний факультет. Першим деканом стоматологічного факультету став Олександр Васильович Коваль – перший головний лікар стоматологічної клініки ЛДМІ, голова наукового товариства стоматологів у Львові, головний стоматолог обласного відділу охорони здоров'я, перший після війни львівський доктор медичних наук у галузі стоматології. Деканами стоматологічного факультету у різний час за минулі 60 років були професори О.В. Коваль (1960–1966, 1968–1972 рр.), О.Я. Ухов (1966–1968 рр.), Г.С. Чучмай (1972–1974, 1978– 1979 рр.), Є.В. Гоцко (1974–1978, 1979–1992 рр.), І.М. Готь (1992–2005), Р.М. Ступницький (2005–2012). У 2012 р. на посаду декана був обраний д-р мед. наук, проф. Р.З. Огоновський [6]. Сьогодні у складі факультету функціонує десять кафедр (п’ять – профільних) та базова стоматологічна поліклініка університету. Тут працює 19 професорів, 17 докторів медичних наук, 55 доцентів, 84 кандидати наук, 45 асистентів. За 60 років роботи факультету освіту здобуло біля 8 тис. лікарів-стоматологів. Серед студентів були представники 40 країн світу. Зараз тут навчається понад 1060 студентів, зокрема близько 200 іноземців. Факультет готує лікарів-стоматологів загальної кваліфікації. Випускники Львівської школи стоматології очолюють кафедри у вищих навчальних закладах Києва, Одеси, Вінниці та інших міст України, а також за кордоном, працюють на державній службі різних рівнів, проявили себе у мистецтві та спорті.

The Gold Medal is presented in the spring to a member of the Society, without age limitation, for contributions to acoustics. The first Gold Medal was presented in 1954 on the occasion of the Society's Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Celebration and biennially until 1981. It is now an annual award.The Gold Medal is presented in the spring to a member of the Society, without age limitation, for contributions to acoustics. The first Gold Medal was presented in 1954 on the occasion of the Society's Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Celebration and biennially until 1981. It is now an annual award.

Though rarely recognized as such, Emily Neville's It's Like This, Cat is perhaps the first work of American young adult fiction. Part of the new contemporary realism emerging in the 1960s and 1970s, the novel offers a first-person, slang-filled account of father-son struggles, awkward blind dates, and difficult choices for fourteen-year-old Dave, who roams New York City with his adopted cat. Paradoxically, Cat may have suffered from its unexpected Newbery win: that gold medal may have made the book less popular with teens and led scholars to overlook the novel's contributions to the emerging young adult genre.

In 2017, Jean-Claude Risset gave his archives to the PRISM laboratory. Thereby the researchers’ community will have soon at their disposal a fund, especially interdisciplinary art and science oriented. For the moment, the archives are divided into two main parts: one within scientific research and one within artistic creation activity. More specifically, Jean-Claude Risset’s own story shaped major interdisciplinary orientations: first of all, his pioneering research at Bell Labs, then back to “French reality” (his half-failure with Ircam and his difficulties concerning Marseille-Luminy), afterwards his quest for solutions as a political lever, especially through the Art-Science-Technology’s report in 1998, and finally his turning point with his CNRS 1998 Gold Medal, consequently increasing conferences and mostly concerts. In addition, the study of material aspects (sharing activities between the laboratory and his home, place and content of documentation, etc.) is also necessary to understand “Risset’s practice” of interdisciplinarity.

Canada’s Ben Johnson was stripped of his gold medal for the 100-metre dash in the 1988 Seoul Olympics. According to his coach, Charlie Francis, this instance of drug taking is only the tip of the sports iceberg. Numerous other Canadian athletes have been implicated in the use of anabolic steroids, and world-class athletes from several other countries have been implicated. Other high-profile Olympic drug takers include Lance Armstrong (USA), 2000, biking; Luiza Galiulina (Uzbekistan), 2012, gymnast; Marion Jones (USA), 2000, sprinter; many members of the Russian team, 2012, 2014 and 2016; Nicklas Backstrom (Sweden), 2014, hockey; Andreea Raducan (Romania), 2000, gymnast; Tyson Gay (USA), 2012, sprinter; Ross Rebagliati (Canada), 1998, snow-boarder; Johann Muhlegg (Spain), 2002, cross-country skier.

At present, China’s track and field sports are at the leading level in Asia, but there is no obvious advantage in the world sports world. In short, the level of Chinese track and field is not completely commensurate with the title of sports power. In order to make a breakthrough in world-class track and field competitions, China should pay attention to improving the scientific level of training and cultivate a track and field gold medal team with long-term advantages. Based on many years’ research experience in track and field, the author briefly analyzes the development status of track and field in China in recent years, and on this basis, studies related strategies to improve the level of track and field training.

The International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) is perhaps the most celebrated mental competition in the world and as such is among the greatest grand challenges for Artificial Intelligence (AI). The IMO Grand Challenge, recently formulated, requires to build an AI that can win a gold medal in the competition. We present some initial steps that could help to tackle this goal by creating a public repository of mechanically checked solutions of IMO Problems in the interactive theorem prover Isabelle/HOL. This repository is actively maintained by students of the Faculty of Mathematics, University of Belgrade, Serbia within the course "Introduction to Interactive Theorem Proving"., In Proceedings ThEdu'20, arXiv:2010.15832

The aim of the study was to determine how many Norwegian athletes who, during all the times they had achieved the European Athletics Championship 2020&mdash, Entry Standards (EAC20ES), were also ranked among the 20 all-time-best athletes at the ages of 15 and 18 years. The number of athletes who achieved the EAC20ES during their career, and the percentage of those who were among top 20 in the age groups 15 and 18 years, were determined from the Norwegian all-time-best results lists. A total of 202 athletes achieved the EAC20ES in the studied time period. Of these, 14.4% and 42.1% were ranked among the top 20 all-time best in one or more events at the ages of 15 and 18 years, respectively. However, among those who had won an international gold medal, these percentages were much higher. Eight out of 12 champions (66.7%) were ranked among the top 20 all-time best in one or more event at 15 years of age, and 11 of 12 champions (91.6%) were ranked among the top 20 all-time best at 18 years of age. Athletes that went on to win international championships typically performed better as adolescents compared to other athletes who also reach an international level as seniors. However, due to the low number of international champions, the date should be interpreted with caution.

Each year, the American College of Radiology (ACR) has awarded its highest honor, the ACR Gold Medal, to an individual for distinguished, extraordinary service to the ACR or to the discipline of radiology. While this prestigious award was established almost a century ago, only ten women have received the honor throughout its history. This article seeks to highlight the life and achievements of one of these women, Dr. Kay Vydareny. Despite encountering barriers facing women in the medical field during medical school and residency in the 1960-70s, Dr. Vydareny went on to embark on a remarkable, enduring career. Early in her career, she began to build a professional network of fellow women colleagues through the American Association of Women Radiologists (AAWR), eventually serving as AAWR President in 1984. In addition to the AAWR, she served in leadership roles in many professional radiological organizations including the ACR. She was elected the first female speaker of the ACR Council Steering Committee in 1993, served on the Board of Chancellors from 1995 to 2002, and was President in 2001. At the same time, she maintained a passion for medical education. In honor of her distinguished and extraordinary service to radiology full of many groundbreaking firsts, she was awarded the ACR Gold Medal in 2005. She was only the fifth woman ever to receive this award. Throughout her outstanding career, Dr. Vydareny has continually been a dedicated and thoughtful educator, mentor, and leader who has made a lasting impact on the field of radiology.

Egypt has been long reflected as one of the most attractive countries to visit because of its historical treasure. Egypt also has remarkable athletic performances in the world championship and the Olympics. Egypt's first recent Olympic gold medal was during the Athens Olympic Games. However, fans’ attendance at individual sporting events was not equivalent to fan presence at team sports. Related studies about fans' who participate in different sporting events focused on men’s sports, team sports, and professional sports ( Armstrong, 2007). The sports development pyramid model by Casey (1988), designed to analyze the stages of sports development, was used to understand more about the association of the significance ofspecific factorsthat Influence fans’, and fan attendance at different individual sporting events in Egypt. A survey initially designed by the researchers was used to collect insights from seven (7) sports journalists, and twenty-seven (27) national team head coaches from different countries, who attended the African and the Arab games held in Cairo, Egypt. The results showed a significant relationship between fan attendance and individual sporting events, public relations, social media, cultural, and the actions of the Egyptian National Governing Bodies (ENGB). The result of this study further suggests the importance of implementing marketing strategies to promote individual sport.

Because of the long history of the Finn Dinghy sailing class, the difference between a gold medal and a mediocre result often comes down to personal mistakes of the sailor, or to who has the most optimised equipment. Regarding the latter, the Finn class rules permit certain design variations of the hull, mast, sail and rudder. In the current contribution, we describe a method for developing a customised rudder system aimed at optimal performance during the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Based on hydrodynamic analysis of existing rudder designs, an improved rudder geometry was developed. Based on the concept geometry, the rudder and tiller were structurally designed and manufactured to achieve high stiffness and sufficient strength, while respecting the minimum mass requirements as specified by the rules.

The article considers the history of the pediatric surgery department of N. N. Burdenko Voronezh State Medical University. The department was founded in 1947. Based on the results of the research undertaken by associates of the department by now, 3 manuals for doctors and students and 12 collections of scientifc papers were issued and 12 investor’s certifcates were obtained. The role of the Student’s scientifc circle was noted: the students struck 5 gold medals during the last fve years. During the last 8 years, the scientifc circle was considered the best and was awarded a gold medal and frstclass honours degree. A close interrelation between the research work of associates of the pediatric surgery department and practical work of pediatric surgeons from the Central Black Earth region was underlined.

Eric Liddell was born into a Scottish missionary family in Tianjin, China. At the age of five, he returned to Scotland for his education, later becoming an athletics hero at the University of Edinburgh. After winning a gold medal at the 1924 Paris Olympics, Liddell decided to return to Tianjin for missionary work in 1925. He was rounded up as an internee with other foreign nationals and held in the Weihsien internment camp by the Japanese invaders in 1943, dying there in 1945. Liddell made a significant contribution to promoting physical education and the Olympics in modern China, and with the passing of time has become a prestigious sporting hero with a legacy of cultural communication between China and the UK through sport and the Olympics.

Diabetic retinopathy, which is the leading cause of blindness among working aged adults, is a serious health problem worldwide. As millions of people suffer from diabetic retinopathy, the need for an automated method of diabetic retinopathy detection to prevent lifelong blindness has long been recognized. Therefore, it's a key challenge to build an automated diagnosis system to detect such disease early and efficiently. For that purpose, we propose a deep-learning-based method to early detect diabetic retinopathy on fundus photography in this paper. The dataset of fundus images is provided by Aravind Eye Hospital in India through a featured competition on the Kaggle platform. Deep convolutional neural networks based on EfficientNet-B3 are utilized to simultaneously extract features from fundus images, where the severity level of diabetic retinopathy is subsequently identified through a regression method. The results show that our deep learning model can achieve an expert-level performance on diagnosing the severity level of diabetic retinopathy, with a quadratic weighted kappa score 0.935 on the private dataset. Such performance locates at the top 1% among all teams and can get a gold medal prize in the Kaggle competition.

Professor Rudolf Mikhailovich Alexakhin passed away on 2 May 2017. He was born on December 15, 1936 in the city Korolev, near Moscow. In 1954, R. Alexakhin graduated from high school with a gold medal and entered Moscow University (Moscow State University). Subsequently, he defended his PhD thesis in 1963 and his dissertation for the degree of doctor of biological sciences in 1974. In 1985, the Higher Attestation Commission of the USSR awarded him the title of Professor in Radiobiology. In 1988, he was elected a member of the All-Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences. From 2014, he was an academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

In late 1933, L'Osservatore Romano fuelled an argument against Il Littoriale, mouthpiece of the Fascist sport policy, about women’s sport: the Vatican Italian-speaking newspaper was against the public women’s athletic meetings, and the “immoral” shorts dressed by the young Italian athletes, such as Ondina Valla, going-to-be the first Italian woman to win an Olympic gold medal (1936, Berlin). Which was the situation of Italian female sports, at that time? Which was the influence of new women models coming from US? What was considered “immoral” by conservative people in 1933 Italy watching a women’s athletic or swimming meeting? How Hollywood stars could help Ondina and her mates on the road of female emancipation? These are the questions this essay is going to answer, helped by a lot of historical images, useful to reconstruct a whole collective imagination.

When the sport of softball was eliminated from Olympic competition after the 2008 Games, the worldwide softball community grieved. After a 12-year sabbatical, the International Olympic Committee an...

[Purpose] The purpose of this study was to investigate the process of Jang Changsun’s winning gold medal in the 1966 Toledo World Amateur Wrestling Championship and its meaning. [Methods] Jang Changsun and Katsumura Yasuo who had competed with Jang Changsun for the gold medal were selected as participants, a player and an executive who had participated in the Championship were selected as informants. Data had been collected by in-depth interview were analyzed firstly by using the Patton(1991)’s data analysis method, and the following conclusions were obtained by comparing with preceding studies, press releases, reports etc. [Results] Jang Changsun won a gold medal through the three stages of desperate struggles. The first struggle was to loose weight. Jang Changsun lost three times more weight than other players through fasting treatment, intensive training and dehydration in order to secure an advantageous position in the competition. His second struggle was the sparring itself. He made his mind to win gold medal 2 years before the Championship and started to strengthen his physical fitness and polish up his techniques to fight with strong players from powerful nation of wrestling. He finished the sparring by winning 4 games and tieing 2 games resulting in the same deduction points with Katsumura. It was inevitable for him to fight desperately to lose weight again to get gold medal. He eventually won the gold medal by losing his weight until he fainted because of injuries and serious dehydration. [Conclusion] The first gold medalist Jang Changsun contributed a lot to development of Korean sports by offering chance to consider significance of improving elite player’s exercising environment, scientific coaching, gaining self-confidence to win medal, and realizing the importance of sports informations.

Purpose The purpose of this memorandum is to share the awarding of one of the most prestigious recognitions in systems thinking and cybernetics: The World Organisation of Systems and Cybernetics (WOSC) Norbert Wiener Memorial Gold medal was awarded in June 2019 to Professor Emeritus, PhD, PhD, Matjaž Mulej for his long-life contributions. Design/methodology/approach The Norbert Wiener Memorial Gold medal was awarded to Professor Emeritus, PhD, PhD, Matjaž Mulej based on the combination of extensive literature analysis and the Delphi approach. Findings Based on Professor Emeritus, PhD, PhD, Matjaž Mule’s exceptional accomplishments in the field of systems thinking and cybernetics, especially the Dialectical Systems Theory and the notion of requisite holism, combined with his visionary projects as, for instance, the development and application of social responsibility concepts, he was nominated and awarded this esteemed medal. Research limitations/implications The Norbert Wiener Memorial Gold medal draws the focus to important work of exceptional individuals and at the same time drives researchers to follow his example in research and overall behaviour. Originality/value The Norbert Wiener Memorial Gold medal has been awarded to 12 people during the past 50 years of WOSC’s existence. Only researchers that have provided significant imprint in systems thinking and cybernetics with their research and organisational activities in society, organisations and communities can be nominated for this prize.

The Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) has created six new awards to be inaugurated at the 2020 Annual Meeting. These include the Gold Medal of the Society, The Joe Gitlin Award, the Dr. Ruth Dayhoff Award for the Advancement of Women in Medical Imaging Informatics, the Imaging Informatics Innovator Award, the Early Career Achievement Award, and the Educator Award. The award criteria, nomination, and selection processes are outlined in this paper with the goal of encouraging nominations (including self-nominations) for these prestigious awards recognizing contributions to imaging informatics in medicine.

When, in 2017, the Bulgarian National Team for Rhythmic Gymnastics received yet another gold medal in Pesaro, Italy, millions stared in awe at their television screens. Children from all around Bul...

As the world continues to deal with the devasting impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, Sports Medicine Australia (SMA) has resumed face-to-face education events… with an innovative virtual spin. SMA is excited to present the annual conference in Australia’s premier sporting city of Melbourne from 6 to 9 October 2021. While Australia’s borders remain closed, we welcome high profile international keynote speakers presenting virtually, complemented by an array of high calibre Australian keynote and invited speakers interacting face-to-face. All the usual educational and social components we love about the annual SMA conference will be there to enjoy. The adaptation and resurgence of outdoor forms of exercise during the COVID-19 pandemic has put a spotlight on sports like running and rowing which can be performed with relatively safe physical distancing. Many of Australia’s Olympic Gold medal winning rowers trained on Melbourne’s Yarra river leaving their medical teams to manage the long-recognised high prevalence of low back pain. In this issue, important recommendations to assist clinicians working with rowers is provided by the new consensus statement coauthored by world experts led by Dr Wilson …

Even though crowdsourcing emerges as a new business principle of many successful tourism apps, its underlying mechanism in tourism remains unexplored. This research note explores this topic with a qualitative design through interviews with stakeholders involved in a crowdsourcing tourism app, Gold Medal Tour Guide. Applying the grounded theory, researchers propose a framework of crowdsourcing in tourism apps consisting of six themes and 15 subthemes. The framework identifies the drive of crowdsourcing and discusses the complexities and contradictions in multi-stakeholder collaboration. The contextual impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the crowdsourcing phenomenon are also examined. The findings provide practical implications for tourism destinations to take advantage of the crowdsourcing mechanism for sustainable operation and development.

In late May–early June 2017, two international science and technology conferences on problems of water chemistry and chemistry monitoring at thermal and nuclear power plants were held. The participants of both the first conference held at OAO VTI and the second conference that took place at NITI formulated the problems of the development of the regulatory base and implementation of promising water treatment technologies and outlined the ways of improving the water chemistry and chemistry monitoring at TPPs and NPPs for the near future. It was pointed out that the new amine-containing VTIAMIN agent developed by OAO VTI had been successfully tested on the power-generating units equipped with steam–gas plants to establish the minimum excess of the film-forming amine in the power-generating unit circuit that ensures the protection of the metal as 5–10 μg/dm3. A flow-injection technique for the analysis of trace concentrations of chlorides was proposed; the technique applied to the condensate of the 1000-MW steam turbine of the NPP power-generating unit yields the results comparable with the results obtained by the ion chromatography and the potentiometric method using the solver electrode. The participants of the conferences were demonstrated new Russian instruments to analyze the water media at the TPPs and NPPs, including the total organic carbon analyzer and the analyzer of mineral impurities in the condensate and feed water, that won a gold medal at the 45th International Exhibition of Inventions held in Geneva this April.

Investor sentiment and attention are often linked to the same non-economic events making it difficult to understand why and how asset prices are affected. We disentangle these two potential drivers of investment behaviour by analysing a new dataset of medals for major participating countries and sponsor firms over four Summer Olympic Games. Existing studies focus only on investigating the effect of sports events and sentiment on stock market returns. We consider for the first time also the importance of investor attention and the effect on activity at the market and firm level. Our results show that trading volume and volatility is substantially reduced following Olympic success although returns appear to be largely unaffected. In the U.S., trading volume (realised volatility) during Olympics is over 24% (61%) lower than comparable periods of the year when Games do not take place. Each gold medal leads to a further decrease in volume of nearly 3% on average over the trading day following the award. These findings are in line with theories and evidence related to investor attention but cannot be easily explained on the basis of sentiment. Analysis of data from online search volumes and from surveys measuring investor sentiment, also suggest that the market impact of the Olympics is linked to changes in investor attention.

During the laudation speech on 12th May 2016 at the Jagiellonian University Senate session on the occasion of Andrzej Wajda being awarded the gold medal Plus Ratio Quam Vis, the director’s most significant services to Polsh and world culture (film, theatre, museum art) were presented.

Over the course of my career, I have made numerous contributions related to semiconductor crystal growth and high performance optoelectronics over a vast region of the electromagnetic spectrum (ultraviolet to terahertz). In 2016 this cumulated in my receiving the Jan Czochralski Gold Medal award from the European Materials Research Society. This article is designed to provide a historical perspective and general overview of these scientific achievements, on the occasion of being honored by this award. These achievements would not have been possible without high quality crystalline substrates, and this article is written in honor of Jan Czochralski on the 100 th anniversary of his important discovery.

This article is about the work of Minnette De Silva, which made claims upon heritage and historical meaning through its concerns with craft. It investigates three facets of her oeuvre—her building, her writing and teaching, her design and handicraft—through the lens of her pictorial autobiography, The Life and Work of an Asian Woman Architect. She identified this remarkable publication as her ‘archives’, documenting in it her life and work (in the absence of a dedicated collection of records), and the equally notable twentieth-century sites and spheres through which she moved. Few careers invite critical investigation of South Asia's modern architectural forms and history as does that of De Silva, an understudied figure credited as a pioneer: a Sri Lanka Institute of Architects Gold Medal recipient, a Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Associate, a co-founder of the journal MARG, a participant in the International Congress of Modern Architecture (CIAM), and an architect practising in a range of ...

Competition medals are one of the most readily available sources of expert opinion to wine consumers, yet the “expertise” of competition judges and efficacy of medals have been questioned in the literature. This paper reevaluates the relevance of gold medals using data from ten competitions and scores from two leading wine publications. The analysis begins by exploring differences in gold medal award rates across competitions while holding wine quality constant through paired comparisons, which are found to be substantial. Next, the relevance of gold medals as indicators of wine quality is assessed, using the average scores from Wine Enthusiast and Wine Spectator as surrogates for quality. By itself, knowledge that a wine is a gold medal winner appears to have little relevance, as these wines do not score significantly higher than other medal winners. However, evidence suggests that golds from some competitions may be more relevant than others. (JEL Classifications: L15, L66)

Summary Nancy Reid was born on September 1952 in Niagara Falls, Canada. She graduated from the University of Waterloo with a Bachelor in Mathematics and a major in Statistics in 1974. She pursued her training in Statistics at the University of British Columbia (UBC) where she obtained a Master in Applied Mathematics in 1976 and at Stanford University, where she graduated with a PhD in Statistics in 1979. After spending 1 year at the Imperial College in London visiting Sir David Cox, she joined UBC as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics, where she had an important role in the creation of the Department of Statistics. In 1986, she moved to the University of Toronto, and she has been since a faculty in the Department of Statistics. Nancy has served as Chair of the Department between 1997 and 2002. Nancy's research in conditional inference, higher order asymptotics and composite likelihood has been influential in Statistics. Her outstanding contributions to Statistics were recognized nationally and internationally with many awards, including the President's Award of the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS), Gold Medal awarded by the Statistical Society of Canada and Elected Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences. She received the Doctor of Mathematics, Honoris Causa, U Waterloo. Nancy served with distinction as Editor of the Canadian Journal of Statistics and President of the Statistical Society of Canada and President of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. In 2014, she was appointed as Officer of the Order of Canada for her outstanding achievements, exemplary leadership and service to Canadians. The following conversation took place at the JSM 2016 in Chicago, on August 2 and 3, 2016.