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  • Peter Peregrine unravels cultural mysteries
    May 15, 2013

    In a building that offers a dizzying view of the Fox River three stories below, Lawrence University anthropologist and AAAS Fellow Peter Neal Peregrine explores the mysteries of humanity; sometimes with his dog, Rowan, at his side. Although he is an archeologist, there are no artifacts displayed in his neatly organized office. Instead, on the windowsill there are small gifts that were given to him, some by his students, including an Indiana Jones figurine and a statue of St. Peregrine. »

  • Nuclear detective Eric Norman
    May 8, 2013

    Following the accident at Japan’s Fukushima Daichii nuclear reactor in 2011, Eric Norman, a professor of nuclear engineering at UC Berkeley, began collecting samples of rainwater.

    Norman, an AAAS fellow, got the idea from a 1986 experiment in which he detected Chernobyl fallout in Berkeley rainwater. Even though he knew from his Chernobyl findings that there would be no local health risk, he still sampled the water. »

  • George Gilchrist examines the evolution happening around us
    April 30, 2013

    Evolution first fascinated George Gilchrist during an undergraduate invertebrate zoology class at Arizona State University, when Professor Ronald Rutowski presented a lecture on the evolution of sex. “I walked out of the classroom and said, ‘this is the most interesting thing I have ever heard of,” remembers Gilchrist, now program director for evolutionary processes in the Division of Environmental Biology at the National Science Foundation (NSF) in Arlington, Virginia. »

  • Jack McArdle tests outside the box
    April 19, 2013

    AAAS Fellow Jack McArdle is on a crusade against the use of box-score numbers in assessment, the types of scores that include composite test scores and IQs. He has even fought against using SAT scores in admissions to his own program in the Psychology Department at the University of Southern California. »

  • A brief discussion with AAAS mentor award recipient Dr. Cato T. Laurencin
    April 17, 2013

    At this year’s AAAS annual meeting, Dr. Cato T. Laurencin, M.D., Ph.D., was the recipient of the 2012 AAAS Mentor Award “for his transformative impact and scientific contributions toward mentoring students in the field of biomedical engineering.” Dr. Laurencin has also been awarded with a number of other honors  including the Presidential Faculty Fellow Award from former U.S. President Bill Clinton, the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring from President Barack Obama. Among many other appointments, Dr. Laurencin is currently a Professor at the department of Orthopaedic Surgery at UConn Health Center. »

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