President Marcia McNutt will explore the current status of the U.S. research enterprise and strategies for navigating a rapidly changing scientific landscape in her the second annual State of the ...

My mathematical work began with the study of hyperbolic dynamical systems (i.e., systems whose long-range behavior exhibits exponential growth and decay of distances along trajectories in ...

WASHINGTON — 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 ...

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 ...

In a statement, the presidents of NAS, NAE, and NAM urge the Trump administration to maintain a welcoming environment for international students enrolled in U.S. colleges and universities, ...

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 ...

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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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 ...

Lindy Elkins-Tanton studies the formation and subsequent evolution of rocky planets. She was born and grew up in Ithaca, New York, and now splits her time between Arizona and Massachusetts.

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 ...

The Michael and Sheila Held Prize is presented annually to honor outstanding, innovative, creative, and influential research in the areas of combinatorial and discrete optimization, or related parts ...