Environment - Tyler Prize 2015 ($ 200,000)

The University of Southern California asks for nominations for the John and Alice Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement. The closing date to submit nominations is September 12, 2014. The prize is awarded for environmental science, environmental health and energy conferring great benefit upon mankind. This annual award is $ 200,000. Nominees will be considered for three years.

Prizes are awarded for any one of the following:

• The protection, maintenance, improvement or understanding of an ecological or an environmental condition anywhere in the world;
• The discovery, further development, improvement, or understanding of known or new sources of energy;
• Medical discoveries or achievements with such worldwide implications that they significantly benefit environmental aspects of human health.

Living individuals or public or private institutions of any nation, are eligible for nomination.