That concludes our 2024 Awards Ceremony and the public program of the 161st Annual Meeting! Thank you to everyone who joined us in person and online, and stay tuned for the announcement of our new NAS members this Tuesday, April 30. #NAS161

Receiving the Public Welfare Medal sends 'a clear message that women are essential to America's scientific mission and excellence,' says Nancy Hopkins as she closes her acceptance speech. 'It's a historic statement.' #NASAward #NAS161 youtube.com/watch?v=5hNQt4…

The Public Welfare Medal is about to be presented to Nancy Hopkins for her courageous leadership over three decades to create and ensure equal opportunity for women in science. #NAS161 #NASaward #womeninSTEM

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Accepting a 2024 Troland Research Award is Jennifer Trueblood of IU Psychological and Brain Sciences The College at IU Indiana University IU Bloomington for her pioneering work on mathematical models of cognitive processing. #neuroscience #NAS161 #NASaward

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Accepting a 2024 Troland Research Award is Christopher Harvey of @Harvardmed for his pioneering work on neural circuits. #neuroscience #NAS161 #NASaward

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2024 Pradel Research Award winner Paola Award thanks her colleagues and postdocs for “turning into science what we thought would be science fiction” as they discovered how to build human brain tissue in the lab. #NASaward #NAS161

Accepting the 2024 Pradel Research Award is Paola Arlotta of Harvard University for advancing understanding of the principles that govern the development of the brain. #neuroscience #NAS161 #NASaward

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Accepting the 2024 NAS Prize in Food and Agriculture Sciences is Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra of UC Davis for his studies on the evolutionary genetics of maize. #agriculture #genetics #NAS161 #NASaward

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“Why study big animals?” asks Terrie Williams as she accepts the 2024 Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal. “The reason is these lions and killer whales and seals and polar bears are the apex predators and they are the glue holding the world’s ecosystems together.” #NASaward #NAS161

Accepting the 2024 NAS Award in the Evolution of Earth and Life – Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal is Terrie M. Williams of UC Santa Cruz for her seminal work on the ecological physiology of large mammals. #zoology #NAS161 #NASaward

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Accepting the 2024 NAS Award in Molecular Biology is Shu-ou Shan of Caltech for her novel research on molecular mechanisms underlying critical cellular processes. #molecularbiology #NAS161 #NASaward

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Accepting the 2024 NAS Award in Chemical Sciences is #NASmember Kimberly A. Prather of UC San Diego and Scripps Institution of Oceanography for her pioneering research on aerosols. #chemistry #NAS161 #NASaward

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Accepting the 2024 Michael and Sheila Held Prize are Eshan Chattopadhyay of Cornell University and David Zuckerman of UT Austin for their novel work on randomized algorithms. #computerscience #NAS161 #NASaward

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Accepting the 2024 Maryam Mirzakhani Prize in Mathematics is Sylvia Serfaty of NYU Courant for her contributions to nonlinear partial differential equations and statistical physics. #mathematics #statistics #NAS161 #NASaward

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“There are human fingerprints all over Earth’s climate system. I have been spending my entire career trying to find those fingerprints,” says Ben Santer as he accepts the 2024 John J. Carry Award for the Advancement of Science. #NASaward #NAS161 ow.ly/HrmY50Rqca7

Accepting the 2024 John J. Carty Award for the Advancement of Science is #NASmember Ben Santer of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and UCLA for pioneering new approaches to address global climate change. #climate #NAS161 #NASaward

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Accepting the 2024 Jessie Stevenson Kovalenko Medal is #NASmember Ruslan Medzhitov of Yale School of Medicine and HHMI NEWS for foundational contributions to the understanding of innate immunity. #medicine #immunology #NAS161 #NASaward

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Accepting the 2024 James Craig Watson Medal is #NASmember James Stone of Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) for his leading contributions to computational astrophysics. #astronomy #astrophysics #NAS161 #NASaward

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Accepting the 2024 J. Lawrence Smith Medal is Edward D. Young of UCLA for his contributions to cosmochemistry and meteor science. #cosmochemistry #geology #NAS161 #NASaward

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Accepting the 2024 Gilbert Morgan Smith Medal is Robert S. Steneck of University of Maine for advancing understanding and conservation of marine ecosystems. #marinebiology #oceanography #NAS161 #NASaward

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