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Ocean Acoustics Education and Expertise: Workshop

  • April 9 - 10, 2026
  • Workshop
  • Past

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will convene a workshop to advance recommendations from the 2025 report, Ocean Acoustics Education and Expertise. Bringing together cross-...

Community Townhall for Ocean Acoustics Workshop

  • March 5 - 6, 2026
  • Meeting
  • Past

The planning committee for the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Ocean Acoustics Education and Expertise workshop planning committee would like to invite you to share your th...

Eligibility & Benefits Deep Dive: Fellowship & Application Process Webinar

  • November 18, 2025
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM (EST)
  • Webinar
  • Past

This session offers a deeper look at eligibility and award benefits for the NRC Research Associateship Programs (RAP) and Air Force Science & Technology Fellowship Program (AF STFP). We’ll cover who i...

Microplastics and Health Webinar Series: Webinar 4 - Research Priorities, Mitigation Strategies, and Public Communication in the Face of Uncertainties

  • June 9, 2025
  • 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM (EDT)
  • Webinar
  • Past

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Environmental Health Matters Initiative organized a webinar series to explore human exposure to and related health effects of microplast...

Microplastics and Health Webinar Series: Webinar 3 - The Potential Hazards to Human Health and The Environment from Microplastics and the Complexity of Assessing Risks

  • April 10, 2025
  • 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (EDT)
  • Webinar
  • Past

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Environmental Health Matters Initiative organized a webinar series to explore human exposure to and related health effects of microplast...

50 Years of the Biological Weapons Convention: What Comes Next?

  • March 26, 2025
  • 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM (EDT)
  • Meeting
  • Past

This event will reflect on the past 50 years of the Biological Weapons Convention, identifying key accomplishments, lessons learned, and insights that will guide the next 50 years. We will explore the...

Microplastics and Health Webinar Series: Webinar 2 – Distribution of Microplastics in the Environment and Human Exposure Pathways

  • March 20, 2025
  • 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (EDT)
  • Webinar
  • Past

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Environmental Health Matters Initiative organized a webinar series to explore human exposure to and related health effects of microplast...

Microplastics and Health Webinar Series: Webinar 1 – Methodologies for Appropriate and Improved Sampling, Analysis, Characterization, Monitoring, and Reporting of Microplastics

  • February 27, 2025
  • 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM (EST)
  • Webinar
  • Past

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Environmental Health Matters Initiative organized a webinar series to explore human exposure to and related health effects of microplast...

Understanding the Environmental Impacts of Scientific Research: A Meeting of Experts

  • February 19 - 21, 2025
  • Meeting
  • Past

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a virtual meeting of experts on February 19 and February 21 to discuss the landscape of and gaps in research on the environmental...

Supporting Family Caregivers in STEMM: Graduate Student and Post-Doc Caregivers Webinar

  • October 29, 2024
  • 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM (EDT)
  • Webcast
  • Past

Caregiving is a universal experience--whether providing care for children or aging relatives or receiving care when ailing, everyone at some point will be touched by caregiving. And yet, caregiving re...

Incentivizing urgency, speed and scale to support future U.S. Innovation

  • October 15 - 16, 2024
  • Meeting
  • Past

The traditional funding and incentivizing model for R&D has evolved rapidly within the last decade. Traditional research processes are ill-suited to induce a rapid transition to real-world application...

Perspectives from New Voices: Navigating Early-stage STEM Careers Across Sectors

  • September 25, 2024
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM (EDT)
  • Webinar
  • Past

The Board on Higher Education and Workforce will host an open session featuring members of the New Voices in Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine program, which engages mid-career scientists, engineers...

Current STEM Labor Movements: Upstream Consequences for Industry and Innovation

  • September 16, 2024
  • 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM (EDT)
  • Webinar
  • Past

To capitalize on the importance and critical role of private and industrial partners in this discussion, a conversation series will be convened as a partnership between GUIRR and the National Academy...

International Bioeconomy Forum at Global Bio-India 2024

  • September 13, 2024
  • 7:00 AM - 8:30 AM (EDT)
  • Closed
  • Conference
  • Past

Global Bio India (GBI) 2024 will feature a facilitated discussion introducing the National Academies' International Bioeconomy Forum. This initiative will involve a multilateral committee organizing f...

Macroeconomic Implications of Decarbonization Policies and Actions

  • September 12 - 13, 2024
  • Workshop
  • Past

The interplay between decarbonization strategies and the macroeconomy plays a crucial role in informing equitable and effective public policy. Join the National Academies on September 12 and 13, 2024...
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