President Emerita of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Susan Hockfield, says Dr. Hopkins' award "celebrates her critical role in increasing the participation of women in science and engineering as a significant national achievement.”
Dr. Guyer was a professor emerita at Johns Hopkins University where she formerly served as the George Armstrong Kelly Professor of Anthropology and co-chair of The Academy. Throughout her career, she conducted extensive research on economic transformations in West Africa.
University of California Santa Cruz professor Terrie Williams has been awarded the Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal from the National Academy of Sciences for her work in the field of ecology and evolutionary biology.
The National Academy of Science has honored Shu-ou Shan with their Award in Molecular Biology. Dr. Shan is the Altair Professor of Chemistry at the California Institute of Technology where she studies biochemistry and molecular biophysics.
The National Academy of Sciences recently announced the election of 100 new members. This year, 40 of the new members are women, the most ever elected to the academy in a single year.
Dr. Berenbaum is the Swanlund Chair of Entomology and professor at the University of Illinois. She was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1994 and has served on the PNAS editorial board since 1998. She holds Ph.D. in ecology and evolutionary biology from Cornell University.
According to a WIAReport analysis of the group of 84 new members of the National Academy of Sciences, 23, or 27.4 percent, are women. The number and percentage of women new members is slightly lower than in 2015 or 2016.
Women make up 28.6 percent of this year's class of new members of the National Academy of Sciences. This is considerable improvement from a year ago. In 2014, women made up 21.4 percent of the new NAS members.
Recently, the National Academy of Sciences elected 84 new members to its ranks. Of the 84 new members, 18, or 21.4 percent, are women. A year ago, women were 26.2 percent of the new members.
The study found that women's brains tended to be highly connected across the left and right hemispheres. But in men's brains, the strongest neural connections were between the front and back regions of the brain.
Recently, the National Academy of Sciences elected 84 new members to its ranks. Of the 84 new members, 22, or 26.2 percent, are women. A year ago, women were 31 percent of the new members.
Professor Holt, of Carnegie Mellon University, is being honored for "studies advancing our understanding of the sensory and cognitive processes that are fundamental to the perception of speech."
