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. Nuclear detective Eric Norman Nuclear detective Eric Norman Member Spotlight 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. 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. Daniel Bernoulli Bernoulli succeeded despite paternal rivalry Scientia March 22, 2013 Imagine having your father ban you from his house when he couldn’t bear being compared as your equal, and then plagiarizing your work. Such was the life of Daniel Bernoulli (1700-1782), the Swiss mathematician and physicist. VIDEO: Dark matter in direct, indirect and collider experiments Video February 20, 2013 Neil Weiner of New York University explains how the search for dark matter is going, and why he is confident we will find it, or at least know what we are looking for, in the near future. The properties of dark matter may be influenced by new forces that effect how dark matter interacts with itself and with ordinary matter. Such forces can lead to new signals in direct or indirect dark matter searches, and might explain some of the anomalous results already reported by such searches. Interacting dark matter may also explain the mysterious properties of dwarf galaxies. VIDEO: Robert Kirshner and the beauty of our accelerating universe Video February 19, 2013 Astrophysicst and author of the book The Extravagant Universe: Exploding Stars, Dark Energy, and the Accelerating Cosmos takes us on a thrill ride through a universe dominated by dark energy but also containing several forms of dark matter. "We live in an extravagant universe with a surprising number of essential ingredients: the real universe we measure is not the simplest one we could imagine," says Kirshner. Learn more about this speaker 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.
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