The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) has announced the winners of the granting council's top prize and three other research awards. Margaret Lock has been selected as the winner of the $100,000 SSHRC Gold Medal for Achievement in Research for her work on the social repercussions of biomedical technologies. Research by the McGill Univ professor of medical anthropology focuses on issues such as organ transplants and genetic testing and has resulted on books about the East Asian medical tradition, cultural aspects of female aging and the invention of the concept of brain death. Other awards: The Aurora Prize to Vinh-Kim Nguyen (Univ of Montreal) for her work on the social effects of HIV/AIDS, Postdoctoral prize to Richard Delisle (Univ of Montreal) for his research into the theories of human evolution, and the William E Taylor Fellowship to Abninder Litt (Univ of Waterloo) for research on the emotional aspects of decision making....