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Distinctive Voices — 2025 Seymour Benzer/Sydney Brenner Lecture: How Age Stereotypes Shape Cognitive Performance in Older Adults
A consistent finding in aging research is that older adults tend to perform worse than younger adults on tests of memory and ...
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Distinctive Voices — Physics-Guided AI for Accelerating Scientific Discovery
While AI has shown tremendous success in many scientific fields, it remains a grand challenge to incorporate physical ...
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Distinctive Voices — Tales of Tessellations
From the walls of the Alhambra to the floors of Winchester Cathedral, virtually every culture uses repeated shapes for ...
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William W. Dressler
William W. Dressler is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at The University of Alabama, where he taught for 42 years. Born and raised in rural Iowa, he received his undergraduate degree in ...
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Distinctive Voices — Revealing the Universe with the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
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 ...
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Kavli Frontiers of Science
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 ...
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Marcia McNutt
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 ...
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John J. Carty Award for the Advancement of Science
The John J. Carty Award for the Advancement of Science is awarded every two years, to recognize noteworthy and distinguished accomplishments in any field of science within the National Academy of ...
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The Einstein Memorial
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 ...