Judith Weir her appointment as the Master of the Queen's Music, succeeding Sir Peter Maxwell Davies (whose term of office expired in March 2014), would be announced; this was officially confirmed on 21 July. In May 2015, Weir won The Ivors Classical Music Award at the Ivor Novello Awards. Weir is a member of the Incorporated Society of Musicians. In 2018 she was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Weir's musical language is fairly conservative, with a "knack of making simple musical ideas appear freshly mysterious." Her first stage work, "The Black Spider", was a one-act opera which
Judith Lesnaw Judith Lesnaw Judith Lesnaw is an American virologist, photographer, and inductee of the University of Kentucky's Hall of Fame. She was the first woman hired into Biology, the first woman to be tenured, and the first molecular biologist at the University of Kentucky. Lesnaw was born in Chicago, Illinois and received her Associate of Arts from Wright Jr. College. She then went on to earn a Bachelor of Science in Microbiology and a doctorate in Biology with a focus in Virology, and postdoctural studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. Lesnaw began working and researching at the University of