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New NAS Members, 1997
Edward Silverman | Jun 8, 1997 | 5 min read
Michael Aizenman, professor of mathematics and physics, Princeton University James P. Allison, professor of immunology and director, Cancer Research Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley Neil W. Ashcroft, associate director, Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source; Horace B. White Professor of Physics, Cornell University Charles H. Bennett, IBM Fellow, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, N.Y. Webster K. Cavenee, director, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research;
Top 10 Innovations 2021
2021 Top 10 Innovations
The Scientist | Dec 1, 2021 | 10+ min read
The COVID-19 pandemic is still with us. Biomedical innovation has rallied to address that pressing concern while continuing to tackle broader research challenges.
2020 Top 10 Innovations
The Scientist | Dec 1, 2020 | 10+ min read
From a rapid molecular test for COVID-19 to tools that can characterize the antibodies produced in the plasma of patients recovering from the disease, this year’s winners reflect the research community’s shared focus in a challenging year.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Enriches Undergrad Science Studies
Linda Marsa | Jan 6, 1991 | 5 min read
This year, five graduating seniors from Atlanta's Morehouse College, one of the top historically black institutions in the United States, plan on attending graduate school in science. "That's up from zero last year, so this represents a giant step forward," says J.K. Haynes, chairman of the biology department at Morehouse. "If one college can place five minority students in graduate science programs every year, that's making a major contribution. And we see this trend continuing." Haynes belie
Resources
The Scientist Staff | Nov 1, 2006 | 5 min read
Resources More Information The Athena Project www.athenaproject.org.uk Joint government/university effort to promote women's participation in science, engineering and technology in the UK. European Commission Science and Society
NAS Honors Sagan And 14 Other Science Achievers
Neeraja Sankaran | Apr 17, 1994 | 8 min read
Three of the 13 awards this year are going to astronomers, including the academy's highest honor--the Public Welfare Medal--which is being given to Carl E. Sagan, 59, David Duncan Professor of Astronomy and Space Sciences at Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. Every year, NAS presents this medal (the only award without an accompanying cash prize) to an individual who has made extraordinary use of science for the public good. Perhaps
NAS Honors Sagan And 14 Other Science Achievers
Neeraja Sankaran | Apr 17, 1994 | 8 min read
Three of the 13 awards this year are going to astronomers, including the academy's highest honor--the Public Welfare Medal--which is being given to Carl E. Sagan, 59, David Duncan Professor of Astronomy and Space Sciences at Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. Every year, NAS presents this medal (the only award without an accompanying cash prize) to an individual who has made extraordinary use of science for the public good. Perhaps
NAS Honors 15 For Contributions To Science
Eugene Russo | Apr 26, 1998 | 7 min read
Seven life scientists are among the 15 honorees for this year's National Academy of Sciences award ceremony set for today at the NAS's 135th annual meeting in Washington, D.C. The meeting also includes the induction of academy members elected last year (E.R. Silverman, The Scientist, 11[9]:1, April 28, 1997). The academy is presenting its highest honor, the Public Welfare Medal, to David A. Hamburg, president emeritus of the Carnegie Corp. of New York. Hamburg, 72, is being recognized "for his
From Scholars to Scientists
The Scientist Staff | Nov 21, 2004 | 6 min read
is assembled one of the most prestigious biomedical communities in the world.
Turmoil Besets Wistar In Wake Of Koprowski's Ouster
Jean Wallace | Mar 1, 1992 | 10+ min read
The Wistar Institute in Philadelphia marks its 100th anniversary this year, but the mood at the nation's oldest independent biomedical research facility is hardly jubilant. The institute has been in turmoil for the last year, after the abrupt ouster of longtime director Hilary Koprowski, the famed virologist and immunologist who transformed Wistar from a dilapidated museum into a world-renowned research center. The commotion recently was stirred up further, when the 75-year-old Koprowski file

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