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 ...

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 ...

Angela Villela Olinto is an astrophysicist recognized for her work in astroparticle physics. She is known for her work on understanding the origin of high-energy cosmic rays, gamma rays, and neutrinos ...

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 ...

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 ...

Kenneth Lange is the Rosenfeld Professor of Computational Genetics in the Departments of Computational Medicine, Human Genetics, and Statistics at the University of California, Los Angeles. He served ...

My areas of research interest are intrinsic electrical properties of neurons, to include biophysics and pharmacology of sodium and calcium channels and the functional role of neuronal ...

Risto Nieminen is Distinguished Professor of Physics (emeritus) at Aalto University in Finland and its former Dean of Science. His research area is condensed-matter and materials physics, especially ...

Research in my laboratory concentrates on the neural mechanisms of perception and object recognition. Although our basic research revolves around vision, a number of independent collaborators are also ...

Steve Granick is an American scientist and educator. He joined the University of Massachusetts in 2023 after serving as Director of the IBS Center for Soft and Living Matter, a blue-sky research ...

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 ...

Dr. Stephen J. OBrien is a leading molecular biologist, population geneticist, genetic epidemiologist and dedicated conservationist who uses molecular genetics and bioinformatics tools to help protect ...