Similarly, instead of quoting a single cognitive scientist about the deficiencies of project - based learning, Pondiscio should examine the National Research Council's 2005 volume on «How Students Learn: History, Mathematics, and Science in the Classroom» or
the excellent research synthesis on project - based learning in the 2006 Cambridge Handbook of the Learning Sciences.
Some selected honors and awards are: Arrhenius medal (1986), Senior Individual Grant Award to Outstanding Senior Scientists (1997), Celsius Medal in Gold (2002), The «August - Wilhelm - von - Hofmann Lectureship Award» (2003), The «Björkén Prize» (2003), Award for
Excellent Research Environments from the Swedish
Research Council (2003), 2005 Ulla and Stig Holmquist's Prize in Organic Chemistry (2005), 2006 Herbert C. Brown Lecturer at Purdue University (2006), Organic
Syntheses Lectureship Award, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaigne, USA (2008), Groningen Stereochemistry Lectureship award (2009), ERC - Advanced Grant (2010), Honorary Doctor at «Åbo Academy» (Åbo Akademi University)(2014), Criegee Lectureship, Karlsruhe, Germany (2015).