Nominations are now being accepted for the NAS Awards to be presented in 2027. Awards will be presented in a variety of fields including biochemistry, computer science, geology, solar physics, and more. Unless otherwise specified, preference will be given to early-career scientists and those whose work hasn’t been recognized by other large prizes or awards. Nominations will be accepted online through Monday, October 5.
Please help spread the word that the nomination process is underway. Questions? Contact awards@nas.edu.
Statement on Report’s Recommendation for NSF Ocean Observatories Initiative
Forecasting the Ocean: The 2025-2035 Decade of Ocean Science, a National Academies report issued last year, found that the National Science Foundation’s Ocean Observatories Initiative has seen many successes and, as it stands, would partially support urgent ocean research questions identified by the committee that wrote the report. Although the committee recommended that NSF conduct a…
NAS Members Honored with 2026 Shaw Prizes
Three members have received 2026 Shaw Prizes. Stanford Woosley has received the Shaw Prize in Astronomy alongside Ken’ichi Nomoto for their studies of stellar explosions and the origin of the elements. Zhu Chen shares the Shaw Prize in Life Science and Medicine with Anne Dejean and Hugues de Thé for the discovery of the molecular…
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