WASHINGTON, DC – The Editorial Board of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) has selected six papers published by PNAS in 2024 to receive the Cozzarelli Prize, an award that ...

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Marcia McNutt is a geophysicist and president of the National Academy of Sciences. From 2013 to 2016, she served as editor-in-chief of the Science journals. Prior to joining Science, she was director ...

The National Academy of Sciences announces the selection of eighty-seven of the nation's brightest young scientists from industry, academia, and government to take part in the National Academy of ...

The John J. Carty Award for the Advancement of Science is awarded every two years, to recognize noteworthy and distinguished accomplishments in any field of science within the National Academy of ...

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 ...

Emily A. Carter is the Gerhard R. Andlinger Professor in Energy and the Environment and a Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE), the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment ...

The NAS Prize in Food and Agriculture Sciences was established in 2016, endowed through generous gifts from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research ...

Hopi Hoekstra's laboratory is interested in the genetic basis of evolutionary change. To this end, she has pioneered the use of wild rodents, primarily deer mice (genus Peromyscus), to study the ...

Jan. 23, 2025 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Academy Honors 20 for Major Contributions to Science WASHINGTON — The National Academy of Sciences will honor 20 individuals with awards recognizing their ...

May 21-22, 2025 Washington, DC Forum Program Assessing biodiversity is fundamental to understanding the distribution of biodiversity, the changes that are occurring and, crucially, the effectiveness ...