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New faces at the National Academy
Email: Emma Hitt - emma@emmasciencewriter.com News from The Scientist 2003, 4(1):20030512-02
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The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) announced 72 new members last month, nearly 25 percent of them female, representing the largest proportion of women ever elected. But while the NAS has been criticized in the past for a paucity of women and other underrepresented groups in science among its members, this year's vote doesn't represent an attempt to redress the problem—at least not yet—according to NAS president Bruce Alberts.
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