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

The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) announced today that 19 Kavli Frontiers of Science alumni have been elected to membership in the NAS in recognition of their distinguished and continuing ...

The National Academy of Sciences announced today the election of 120 members and 30 international members in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.

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 ...

Andrew D. Hanson is C.V. Griffin Sr. Eminent Scholar in the Horticultural Sciences Department at the University of Florida, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences. His B.Sc. in Biochemistry and ...

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 ...

William H. Press is a computer scientist and computational biologist with broad interests in the physical and biological sciences. Press is the Leslie Surginer Professor of Computer Science and ...

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Mehran Kardar is known for his research and teaching in statistical physics. Born in Tehran, he studied in Cambridge University (BA in 1979), and at MIT (PhD in 1983). He was a Junior Fellow of the ...

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 ...

Kent C. Berridge is a psychologist and neuroscientist whose research focuses on brain mechanisms of affect, emotion, and motivation. He is currently the James Olds Distinguished University Professor ...