American Association for the Advancement of Science

• Nasa Highlights at American Association for the Advancement of Science Annual Meeting

WASHINGTON, Feb. 17, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA researchers will discuss a wide range of scientific and space exploration topics at the 2011 annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). The meeting takes place Feb. 17-21 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, 801 Mount Vernon Pl. NW, Washington. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO)

• U.S. Newswire
• February 17, 2011

• Daniel Callahan & Bioethics

After all, here was a founding father of bioethics, an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Science, the recipient of numerous honorary degrees, a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize-in short, someone who should be able to understand how crucial their research is-and he was calling it comparatively unimportant. Later, as a philosophy graduate student at Harvard, he extended his "Catholic" education by serving as teaching assistant to the great English historian Christopher Dawson, author of Progress and Religion, among many other books.\n We need the right image because in confronting our mortality we are dealing with a level of consciousness that is "deeper than that which can be wholl...

• Commonweal
• August 19, 2009

• SIC 8621 Professional Membership Organizations

... of professional persons for the advancement of the interests of their profession. NAICS CODE(S... are non-profit voluntary membership associations that represent individuals with a common backgroun... Association for the Advancement of Science. Most professional societies, depending upon the n...

• Encyclopedia of American Industries
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• The American Association for the Advancement of Science.

The American Association for the Advancement of Science has elevated Charles K. Barlowe, PhD, TaYuan Chang, PhD, William T. Wickner, M.D., and C. Robe...

• New Hampshire Business Review
• January 28, 2011

• Deep Problems in Our Future, Aaas Hears

Worries global in scope and local in impact converge on practically everything: climate change and disruptive weather patterns, energy shortages, vast coastal urbanization of the poorest countries, widespread economic insecurity, terrorism, hunger, the declining US influence in the world, and most any other topic that comes to mind. In May, the American Association for the Advancement of Science arranged a special session during its annual Forum on science and technology to give the R&D community some concrete sense of what lies obscured by the future's murk. Immigration alone will not drive new technology because there is a little thing called talent that relates to innovation. With US R&D 2.6% of GDP and GDP one-third innovation-driven, one of the key ways in which the US will...

• Research Technology Management
• Vol. 51 Nbr. 6, November 2008

• Three K-State Professors Honored with Fellow Status by American Association for the Advancement of Science

MANHATTAN, Kan., Nov. 7 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Three Kansas State University professors have been designated Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Scot Hulbert, professor and interim head of the department of plant pathology; Richard Marston, professor and head of the department of geography; and Bharat Ratra, professor of physics, will be acknowledged with a certificate and rosette at the Fellow's Forum, part of the association's annual meeting Feb. 18, 2006, in St. Louis, Mo.

• U.S. Newswire
• November 07, 2005

• Dear Friends

HCN Contributing Editor Michelle Nijhuis has garnered another award for her "Hot Times" series on climate change in the West, this time from the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Michelle won the association's prestigious Science Journalism Award, "the pinnacle of achievement for professional journalists in the science writing field," in the Small Newspapers category (under 100,000 circulation). Peter Spotts of the Christian Science Monitor, a judge, described her stories as "a nice blend of current research and historical context.

• High Country News
• August 13, 2009

• Three K-State Professors Honored with Fellow Status by American Association for the Advancement of Science

MANHATTAN, Kan., Nov. 7 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Three Kansas State University professors have been designated Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Scot Hulbert, professor and interim head of the department of plant pathology; Richard Marston, professor and head of the department of geography; and Bharat Ratra, professor of physics, will be acknowledged with a certificate and rosette at the Fellow's Forum, part of the association's annual meeting Feb. 18, 2006, in St. Louis, Mo.

• U.S. Newswire
• November 07, 2005

• Special Report: Training the Next Generation of Conservation Scientists; Issued by the Canon National Parks Science Scholars Program; Collaboration of Canon U.S.A., American Association for the Advancement of Science, U.S. National Park Service.

LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y. -- Across the Americas, select graduate students are conducting cutting-edge research in national parks as Canon Scholars. Their wo...

• Business Wire
• August 03, 2005

• New Fellow Announced at Los Alamos Labs

William S. Rees Jr. of Los Alamos National Laboratory has been awarded the distinction of American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow. As part of the chemistry section, Rees was elected as a fellow for scientific and educational contributions to the field of materials chemistry, and for sustained policy contributions leading to enhancements in national security basic research.

• Taos News, The
• January 28, 2011