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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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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 health crisis. Mizuko (Mimi) Ito is a cultural anthropologist who has ...
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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
Distinctive Voices highlights innovations, discoveries, and emerging issues in an exciting and engaging public forum. Do you wonder how things work? What the future holds? If you are curious about the ...
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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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The Einstein Memorial
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 ...
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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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Kavli Frontiers of Science
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 ...
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Marcia McNutt
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 ...
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Walter S. Leal
Walter S. Leal is a Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California, Davis, and chaired the UC Davis Department of Entomology. He ...
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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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Richard B. Alley
Dr. Richard Alley (PhD 1987, Geology, Wisconsin) is Evan Pugh University Professor of Geosciences at Penn State. He studies the great ice sheets to help predict future changes in climate and sea level ...