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Mary-Claire King to Receive Public Welfare Medal — Academy’s Most Prestigious Award
WASHINGTON — The National Academy of Sciences is presenting its 2025 Public Welfare Medal to Mary-Claire King for her ...
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Distinctive Voices — Revealing the Universe with the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is the NASA Astrophysics Division’s next flagship mission. Roman will conduct surveys of the sky to help reveal some of our Universe’s most interesting ...
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2024 Nobel Prize Symposium
Join the Embassy of Sweden and the National Academy of Sciences for the 2024 Nobel Prize Symposium. The event is a unique opportunity to hear from four of this year’s U.S.-based Nobel Prize Laureates ...
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Distinctive Voices — The Promise and Peril of CRISPR
Dr. Baer currently holds positions as Lecturer in the Department of Chronic Disease Epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health, Lecturer on Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical ...
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Distinctive Voices — Kids and Tech: How to tell fact from fiction and support positive engagement
Contrary to much public discourse, digital technology is not universally damaging to young people or driving a teen mental ...
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NAS Award for Scientific Discovery
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 ...
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National Academy of Sciences Selects the 2025 Kavli Fellows
The National Academy of Sciences announces the selection of eighty-eight of the nation’s brightest young scientists from industry, academia, and government to take part in the National Academy of ...
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2024 Chinese-American Kavli Frontiers of Science
SPEAKER: Improving SARS-CoV-2 Drug Development: Using AI and Molecular Dynamics to Understand Mutations and Resistance, Yang Li, Global Health Discovery Institute (GHDDI) SPEAKER: Image-based Deepp ...
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Member Directory
Search the profiles of NAS members by keyword OR use the filters below. When searching with multiple filter options, records that meet all of the criteria will display. Select more than one entry in a ...
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Anthony P. Mahowald
My laboratory studies the genetic control of key developmental events during oogenesis using Drosophila melanogaster as our organism. We are currently concentrating on two processes. First, we have ...
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Horst L. Stormer
As a condensed-matter physicist, I have been working on the transport properties of lower dimensional electron systems, such as quantum sheets, quantum wires, and quantum dots. These consist typically ...
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Gary Ruvkun
In my lab I use C. elegans molecular genetics and genomics to study problems in developmental biology and physiology. I have have studied the pathways by which microRNAs and other small RNAs regulate ...