Winners of 2013 AAAS Student Poster Competition Tuesday, April 30, 2013 The 2013 Student Poster Competition took place at the AAAS Annual Meeting In Boston February 14-18. The student winners' work displayed originality and understanding that set them apart from their peers. The AAAS Poster Sessions provide individuals with an opportunity to present their research, offering an excellent venue for extended informal discussion with meeting attendees. All posters are peer-reviewed, and accepted posters are listed in the AAAS Annual Meeting Poster Book. Abstracts appear on the Annual Meeting Abstract CD, within the Program Book. George Gilchrist examines the evolution happening around us George Gilchrist examines the evolution happening around us Member Spotlight 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. OSTP seeks nominations for presidential mentoring award OSTP seeks nominations for presidential mentoring award Capitol Connection April 8, 2013 The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) are now accepting nominations for PAESMEM, the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring. OSTP/NSF seeks individuals and organizations that have demonstrated at least five years of excellence in mentoring students, trainees, and/or early career scientists and engineers from groups that are underrepresented in STEM. Marcia McNutt appointed new Editor-in-Chief of Science Marcia McNutt appointed new Editor-in-Chief of Science Tuesday, April 2, 2013 Marcia McNutt, most recently Director of the US Geological Survey, has been appointed the new, full-time Editor-in-Chief of Science. She will begin her tenure at Science on June 1. McNutt will take over the position from Bruce Alberts who decided to step down at the end of his five-year term. Scott Edwards Scott Edwards job is for the birds Member Spotlight March 19, 2013 Even on a bitterly cold morning like this, birds on the grounds of Harvard University are making a ruckus. Even through the thick stone walls and narrow windows of the basement offices of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, squawks and chirps are clearly audible. In the main room of the museum’s ornithology collection, however, the birds are much quieter. VIDEO: 2013 AAAS Annual Meeting reception Video February 15, 2013 Find out what attendees are looking forward to at this year's meeting in Boston. Related Links: AAASMC's complete video coverage from the 2013 Annual Meeting in Boston VIDEO: 2013 Annual Meeting: The president's address Video February 15, 2013 AAAS President William Press, researcher in computer science, genomics, statistical methods, astrophysics, and international security, welcomes attendees to Boston. This year's AAAS Annual Meeting highlights the rich and complicated connections between basic and applied research, and how they bring about both practical benefits and the beauty of pure understanding. Read more about Press's keynote. National Medal of Science AAAS members awarded medal at White House ceremony Monday, February 4, 2013 Fifteen AAAS fellows and members were awarded the U.S's top prize for scientists, engineers, and inventors, the National Medal of Science and National Medal of Technology and Innovation, at a White House ceremony on February 1. President Barack Obama handed out the medals to the nearly two dozen researchers and innovators honored in 2012. Twelve researchers received the National Medal of Science and eleven inventors received the National Medal of Technology and Innovation. VIDEO: Coverage of the 2013 Annual Meeting in Boston Video February 12, 2013 Here is AAASMC's video coverage of the 179th AAAS Annual Meeting in Boston. The program for 2013 highlights the rich and complicated connections between basic and applied research, and how they bring about both practical benefits and the beauty of pure understanding. Myths of the Mayan Long Count calendar Myths of the Mayan Long Count calendar Scientia December 17, 2012 For countless years, there have been predictions that the world would end on a certain date. As those dates have come and gone without incident, new dates by doomsday prophesiers have emerged with little basis in science. The Mayan Long Count calendar, which ends on December 21, 2012, is the most imminent one of these, with some saying that the Mayans predicted the end of the world on that date. While credible scientists eschew such predictions, the Mayan calendar nevertheless bears a closer look.
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