http://www.national-academies.org The nation turns to the National Academies -- National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine, and National Research Council -- for independent, objective advice on issues that affect people's lives worldwide. en-us Thu, 15 May 2008 01:34:09 EST maintainer@nas.edu webmaster@nas.edu http://www.national-academies.org/onpi/rss.gif http://www.national-academies.org http://www.nationalacademies.org/morenews/20080515b.html In a new collaboration, the Marian Koshland Science Museum of the National Academy of Sciences is licensing several components of its global warming and infectious diseases exhibits to the Science Centre Singapore. The partnership marks an expansion of the museum's efforts to bring its work to international audiences by teaming up with other museums and science centers around the world. 15 May 2008 01:34:09 EST http://www.nationalacademies.org/morenews/20080515b.html http://www.nationalacademies.org/morenews/20080515.html The National Academy of Engineering has elected Irwin Jacobs as its ninth chair; he will work with the NAE president and Council to pursue the mission of the Academy to support the technological welfare of the nation. Thomas Budinger was elected as home secretary, and Alice Agogino, Wayne Clough, Paul Gray, Bradford Parkinson, and Julia Phillips were elected to the NAE governing Council. All terms begin July 1, 2008. 15 May 2008 10:59:16 EST http://www.nationalacademies.org/morenews/20080515.html http://www.nationalacademies.org/morenews/20080513.html A new report from the National Research Council provides advice and recommendations to improve an Army Corps of Engineers' draft report for Louisiana coastal protection and restoration. The Corps' report does not identify clear priorities for project implementation -- including ecosystem restoration, hurricane protection, and nonstructural measures such as buyouts -- nor does it provide evidence that sediment resources for all proposed restoration projects will be available. 13 May 2008 10:10:42 EST http://www.nationalacademies.org/morenews/20080513.html http://www.nationalacademies.org/morenews/20080508.html The National Academies have announced the recipients of its 2007 Futures grants for 15 projects ranging from engineering solutions to extend human healthspan to developing socially assistive robotics for physical and cognitive health. The grant recipients participated in the conference "The Future of Human Healthspan: Demography, Evolution, Medicine, and Bioengineering," held last November. A summary of the conference is available. 08 May 2008 03:09:36 EST http://www.nationalacademies.org/morenews/20080508.html http://www.nationalacademies.org/morenews/20080502.html When developing additional risk assessment studies for the proposed biocontainment laboratory to be located in Boston, the National Institutes of Health should consider scenarios for a variety of agents with diverse transmission characteristics and utilize available data to develop probabilities for release consequences, using either qualitative approaches or quantitative models, says a new report from the National Research Council. 02 May 2008 08:51:33 EST http://www.nationalacademies.org/morenews/20080502.html http://www.nationalacademies.org/morenews/20080429b.html The National Academy of Sciences today announced the election of 72 new members and 18 foreign associates in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. Election to the Academy is considered one of the highest honors that can be accorded a U.S. scientist or engineer. Those elected today bring the total number of active members to 2,041. 29 Apr 2008 11:04:39 EST http://www.nationalacademies.org/morenews/20080429b.html http://www.nationalacademies.org/morenews/20080429.html At a national convocation today, leaders from government, business, and education will weigh how much progress has been made in bolstering math and science education and strengthening the nation's research enterprise since the National Academies released their 2005 report Rising Above the Gathering Storm. 29 Apr 2008 09:03:10 EST http://www.nationalacademies.org/morenews/20080429.html http://www.nationalacademies.org/morenews/20080428b.html In his annual address to members of the Academy this morning, NAS President Ralph Cicerone said "we must change the trajectories of our energy usage and energy sources." Calling energy a pervasive issue, Cicerone added, "a great deal of innovative and determined work is needed by scientists and engineers in the years ahead" to meet energy challenges. 28 Apr 2008 09:35:52 EST http://www.nationalacademies.org/morenews/20080428b.html http://www.nationalacademies.org/morenews/20080428.html During a ceremony at the 145th annual meeting of the National Academy of Sciences, Norman Neureiter was honored for "successfully integrating science and technology into U.S. foreign policy." NAS also honored 12 other individuals for their outstanding scientific achievements. 28 Apr 2008 08:19:35 EST http://www.nationalacademies.org/morenews/20080428.html http://www.nationalacademies.org/morenews/20080425.html Uncertainties about availability and effectiveness of antiviral drugs against the next pandemic strain of flu virus require officials to begin a national discussion about the difficult choices they may be forced to make about the drugs' distribution in the event of an outbreak, says a new report from the Institute of Medicine. 25 Apr 2008 10:38:20 EST http://www.nationalacademies.org/morenews/20080425.html