| Ashley
Montagu Award
The Ashley Montagu Award has been created by a great Quebec Artist : PIREZ This piece of art is made of massive Bronze and amalgamated glass, materials carefully selected for their quality and finesse, to the image of Ashley Montagu's achievement. Its grasp is ergonomic and very soft. Its design fits perfectly the palm of the hand which exemplifies Ashley Montagu's vision to care for the needs of humanity. The amalgamated glass section, on which we can see finger prints, represents the effect of touch and the traces that it leaves on the receiver as much as on the giver. The name of Ashley Montagu is embedded in the amalgamated glass as it is forever engraved in the history of humanity. The Ashley Montagu
Award will be given every two year to a world personality to highlight
excellence and exceptional devotion to the advancement of touch
in the world. Recipient
of the Ashley Montagu Award - 2004 Edition:
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It is an extreme honour for the first Ashley Montagu award to be
given to me and I am touched both personally and professionally
to be given an award with Ashley’s name on it. Ashley was
a friend of mine and he inspired a lot of my work and his book ‘Touching’
was an inspiration to the work being done at the Touch Research
Institute. »
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It
is during the 2nd edition of the International Symposium on the
Science of Touch (ISST 2004) held in Montreal, May 12 to 15, 2004,
that Dr. Tiffany Field, from the renowned Touch Research Institute,
received, with great surprise and emotion, the prestigious Ashley
Montagu award in front of a crowd of over 600 scientists, teachers,
clinicians and students in the health related fields from around
the world.