Transportation Research Board Announces 21 Minority Student Fellows for 2024
The Transportation Research Board (TRB) today announced the 2024 class of Minority Student Fellows. As part of its commitment to increasing diversity and inclusiveness in transportation, the TRB Minority Student Fellows Program funds students from minority-serving institutions to attend and present their research at the TRB Annual Meeting and help them engage in TRB’s network of transportation professionals. (Source: News from the National Academies)
Source: News from the National Academies - August 17, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
Gulf Research Program Awards $5.9 Million to Increase Understanding of the Effects of Climate Change on Environmental Hazards in Overburdened Communities
The Gulf Research Program (GRP) of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has awarded $5.9 million to support four projects that will advance the understanding of climate change effects on local health disparities. Collectively, these projects will create a series of models to better understand how environmental hazards influence human health outcomes and how those hazards will be affected by climate change under varying scenarios and time frames. (Source: News from the National Academies)
Source: News from the National Academies - August 15, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
New Chief Financial Officer Appointed at National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has named Ebun Caldeira Johnson as chief financial officer. Johnson has served as director of the National Academies’ budget office since 2014. (Source: News from the National Academies)
Source: News from the National Academies - August 14, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
National Academy of Sciences Receives $2.1 Million from Breakthrough Prize Foundation for Ongoing Support of Ukrainian-Led Scientific Research Projects
The Breakthrough Prize Foundation is providing the National Academy of Sciences with up to $2.1 million in funding to support Ukrainian science and scientists. The new funding has been established as a challenge grant to encourage additional philanthropic support, and it will help cover the costs of several Ukrainian-led research projects. (Source: News from the National Academies)
Source: News from the National Academies - August 11, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
New Report Provides Scientific Review of EPA ’s Draft Formaldehyde Assessment
A new National Academies report provides recommendations to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for improving its draft IRIS Toxicological Review of Formaldehyde. (Source: News from the National Academies)
Source: News from the National Academies - August 9, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
Engineering Ethics and Narratives for Technological Imagination
A new NAE Perspective by Ashley Shew and Hanna Herdegen, discusses how to create more ethical and engaged engineering practices, and how new and authentic narratives surrounding disability are needed -- narratives that center disabled people as experts on their own experiences and acknowledge the diversity within the disability community. (Source: News from the National Academies)
Source: News from the National Academies - August 1, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
U.S. Should Create a Federal Entity Responsible for Advancing Racial, Ethnic, and Tribal Health Equity, and Implement a Health Equity Policy Audit and Score Card
The U.S. should create a federal entity responsible for advancing racial, ethnic, and tribal health equity, implement an equity audit of current agency policies, and design a score card to assess how proposed legislation might impact health equity. (Source: News from the National Academies)
Source: News from the National Academies - July 27, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
Reports & Events Monthly Calendar - August 2023
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Source: News from the National Academies - July 27, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
Making STEM More Inclusive of People with Disabilities
At a summit hosted by the National Academies — the first of a series of events in June that examined how ableism in STEM can keep people with disabilities from engaging and thriving in these fields — speakers explored how to advance STEM by creating more inclusive environments. (Source: News from the National Academies)
Source: News from the National Academies - July 25, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
U.S. Should Expand and Standardize Plastics Collection and Recycling, Study Potential Uses in Infrastructure, Says New Report
Recycled plastics are an underutilized resource in the U.S., and it is in society’s economic and environmental interests to expand and standardize plastics waste collection, increase recycling, and explore new applications for plastics waste in infrastructure. Possible uses include asphalt pavements, railroad ties, and utility poles. (Source: News from the National Academies)
Source: News from the National Academies - July 19, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
National Academies to Hold Summit on Climate Change July 11-12
On July 11 and 12, the Climate Crossroads Summit will bring together experts from many disciplines to explore actions that will help build a broad portfolio of equitable responses to climate change. It marks the launch of a major new National Academies effort to provide sustained national and global leadership on climate change. (Source: News from the National Academies)
Source: News from the National Academies - July 10, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
First National Academies Hackathon Awards $60K to Innovative, Implementable Solutions to Prevent, Treat, and Control STIs in the U.S.
Five teams recognized for original artificial intelligence (AI) and data solutions to prevent, treat, and control STIs after competing in a two-day Hackathon Innovation Prizes sponsored by YouTube Health (Source: News from the National Academies)
Source: News from the National Academies - July 6, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
Global Science Leaders Gather in Warsaw to Underscore Their Support of Ukrainian Science and Scientists
Global science leaders gathered in Warsaw to honor a group of Ukrainian scientists selected to receive long-term research funding. The event also served as an opportunity for international science academies to stress their continued commitment to Ukrainian science and scientists as the war in Ukraine continues. (Source: News from the National Academies)
Source: News from the National Academies - June 30, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
National Academies Presidents ’ Statement on Affirmative Action
In a statement regarding the Supreme Court’s ruling to restrict affirmative action, the presidents of the NAS, NAE, and NAM stressed that the nation should remain committed to efforts to diversify the nation’s colleges and universities and find solutions that address racial inequities, including past and current discrimination and structural, systemic, and institutional racism in education. (Source: News from the National Academies)
Source: News from the National Academies - June 30, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
Eighteen Ukrainian Research Projects Selected for Long-Term Funding by the Polish Academy of Sciences and U.S. National Academy of Sciences
The National Academy of Sciences and the Polish Academy of Sciences picked 18 Ukrainian research teams for grants of up to $200,000 annually for up to three years. Recipients will be honored by the U.S. ambassador to Poland and leaders of international science academies at a June 29 event in Warsaw. (Source: News from the National Academies)
Source: News from the National Academies - June 29, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
