Through its grants, conferences and advocacy RCSA Supports: Early career faculty • Innovative ideas that lead to transformative research • Integration of research and undergraduate science education • Interdisciplinary and collaborative approaches to research • Building academic cultures that embrace all of the above
Nurturing Young Scientists
In today's increasingly competitive global economy, America's universities must do a better job of recognizing the value of early career scientists as a key to our nation's future. Read the August 20th Science editorial by Sherwood Boehlert, former chair of the U.S. House Science Committee, and by RCSA President & CEO James M. Gentile. Read more.
ACS Honors RCSA Awardees
The American Chemical Society has honored several people from the RCSA community. They include Rigoberto Hernandez, Georgia Institute of Technology, Cottrell Scholar (1999); Dennis Smith, University of Texas, Dallas, Cottrell Scholar (2001); and Will Polik, Hope College, Cottrell College Scholar (1988, 1990 and 2003). These newly minted ACS Fellows will be recognized at the organization's fall meeting in Boston, according to the ACS website. Read more
Lewis to Head $122-Million Solar Fuels Research Project
The Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis (JCAP), a new U.S. government Energy Innovation Hub, has received $122 million in federal funding over five years, the federal Department of Energy (DOE) announced July 22.
Dr. Nate Lewis, chair of RCSA's Scialog Review Panel and a keynote speaker at the first Scialog conference to be held at Biosphere 2 near Tucson, Arizona, this October, is director of the project. Read more.
Scialog Grants for Solar Energy Conversion Awarded to Researchers at 11 Universities
Research Corporation for Science Advancement announces the initial round of grants awarded through Scialog, a major new research initiative. This multi-year program is designed to accelerate the work of 21st-century science by funding early career scientists (either individuals or multi-disciplinary teams) to pursue transformative research, in dialog with their fellow grantees, on crucial issues of scientific inquiry. Read more.
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Scialog Week Public Lectures
Dr. Arun Majumdar, director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) and Dr. Eric Mazur will provide public lectures during Scialog Week in October. For more information, please contact Vivian Wessel.
National Academies
As debates about energy grow more intense, Americans need dependable, objective, and authoritative energy information. The National Academies, advisers to the nation on science, engineering, and medicine, provide the facts about energy-a complex issue that affects us as individuals and as a nation. View website.
Let's Encourage Research Daring Enough to Fail
RCSA President and CEO James M. Gentile has written a plea for greater tolerance for failure on the part of funding entities when it comes to supporting scientific experimentation. The article, published June 6 by the The Chronicle of Higher Education, makes the point that the vital breakthroughs in science and technology we'll need to support human civilization in the 21st century and beyond require researchers to take greater risks to achieve potentially much greater rewards. Read more.
Tucson-Area Schools Make Newsweek's List of Best in the U.S.
Four Tucson high schools have made Newsweek's 2010 list of America's best. BASIS Charter was ranked among the top 10 for the third year in a row, taking first in 2008, fifth in 2009, and sixth this year. Other Tucson-area schools on the 2010 list include University High School, number 24; Sonoran Science Academy, 173; and Canyon del Oro High School, 1,571. We congratulate these institutions for being among the top six percent in the nation, and we commend them for their commitment to excellence in education.-- Samantha Simon
Top Science Ed Proponent to Advise President Obama
Dr. Carl Wieman, one of the nation's leading authorities on improving science education, has been appointed Associate Director of Science, Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). Wieman has an RCSA Connection. Read more.
Subra Suresh Nominated by Obama for Director of NSF
President Obama said, “I am proud that such experienced and committed individuals have agreed to take on these important roles in my administration. I look forward to working with them in the coming months and years.” Read More
“Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science”
-Albert Einstein
RCSA History
60 Years Ago in RCSA History: Edward C. Kendall was awarded the Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine for “discoveries relating to the hormones of the adrenal cortex, their structure and biological effects.” RCSA supported Kendall’s work, first at the Mayo Clinic and later at Princeton University, from 1944 to 1972.