The National Academy of Sciences announced today the election of 120 members and 30 international members in recognition of ...

Cultural Programs of the National Academy of Sciences (CPNAS) organizes a diverse set of activities that explore the intersections among the arts, science, medicine, engineering, and popular culture.

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The Frontiers of Science symposium series was created as the first program of the National Academy of Sciences targeted specifically for early career scientists. Frontiers was designed to bridge the ...

Established by the NAS Council in October 2008 by combining two awards: The Charles Doolittle Walcott Medal established by a gift of Mrs. Mary Vaux Walcott in memory of her husband, Charles Doolittle ...

The NAS Award for Scientific Discovery is presented every two years to recognize an accomplishment or discovery in basic research, achieved within the previous five years, that is expected to have a ...

The memorial to Albert Einstein, situated in an elm and holly grove in the southwest corner of the Academy grounds, was unveiled at the Academy's annual meeting, April 22, 1979, in honor of the ...

Susan Wessler is Distinguished Professor of Genetics emerita at the University of California Riverside. In 2011 she was elected Home Secretary of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS), the first ...

Adaptive Evolution and speciation models, allopatric and sympatric, across life from viruses and bacteria through fungi, plants, and mammals . Model organisms include Spalax, wild barley, Hordeum ...

Gary Yellen is a biophysicist and neuroscientist recognized for his work on the moving parts of ion channel proteins and on the dynamics of neural metabolism. He earned his AB in Biochemical Sciences ...

Cynthia Dwork, a Distinguished Scientist at Microsoft Research, spearheaded a successful effort to place privacy-preserving analysis of data on a firm mathematical foundation. A cornerstone of this ...

As a space physicist, I combine theory and data interpretation to study the magnetospheres of Earth and Jupiter thus to learn about the large-scale dynamical processes that occur in magnetized plasmas ...