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American Academy of Arts and Sciences Names New Members
Congratulations to eleven APS members who were recently elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences: Shari Seidman Diamond Northwestern University Edward Francis Diener University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Alice Hendrickson Eagly Northwestern University
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Reversal of Fortune
Perhaps no argument made the case for changing NSF policy as clearly as what a heroic first-year graduate student had to suffer through last year. Lily Brown is in the clinical program at University of
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New Policy Eliminates Funding Hurdle for Promising Graduate Student
Edmarie Guzman-Velez studies emotions and memory in dementia such as Alzheimer’s disease specifically, looking at whether patients with dementia continue to experience emotions even when they don’t remember the event that caused the emotion. During
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Publish or Perish? Grade Yourself and Persist
Upon receiving an article relevant to my research, one ego-fueled reaction I have is to flip immediately to the references. Did they cite me? I gave up having friends and a social life for this
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APS Janet Taylor Spence Award for Transformative Early Career Contributions
The APS Board of Directors is pleased to announce the 2012 recipients of the APS Janet Taylor Spence Award for Transformative Early Career Contributions, in recognition of the significant impact their work is having in
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Optogenetics: Stranger Than Fiction
It sounds like a science fiction movie: Scientists integrate the photoreceptive properties of light-sensitive algae into rat neurons. The result? A rat whose brain can be controlled by light. As crazy as it seems, this