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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ann Hochschild, PhD, is the Maude & Lillian Presley Professor of Microbiology and serves as the chair of Microbiology at Harvard Medical School. She received her A.B. in English Literature from ...

Emery N. Brown is the Edward Hood Taplin Professor of Medical Engineering and professor of computational neuroscience at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the Warren M. Zapol Professor of ...

Dr. Friesen's health policy interest is focused on the knowledge generated through research as the driver of change, continuous improvement and innovation in health systems; it is to see research as a ...

Michael Diamond is a physician-scientist with research interests in virology and immunology and a focus on emerging RNA viruses including flaviviruses, alphaviruses, and coronaviruses. Dr. Diamond’s ...