Organizer: Mel Wohlgemuth, University of Arizona and Ed O’Brien, Pennsylvania State University INTRODUCTORY SPEAKER: Ricardo Samms, Eli Lilly and Co.

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

My research interests focus on the mathematical aspects of time-frequency analysis, in particular, wavelets as well as applications to signal analysis, signal compression, and computer graphics. Many ...

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 ...

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 ...

My research is primarily focused on observational cosmology. I have been very active in measuring the current expansion rate of the universe, or the Hubble constant, making use of large optical ...

James (Jim) Giovannoni is a plant biologist known for his work on fruit physiology and ripening. He is acknowledged in particular for his discoveries related to the transcriptional control of ripening ...

Michel Georges is Professor in Genetics and Genomics at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of the University of Liège in Belgium. He heads the Unit of Genetics of the GIGA Research Institute in the ...