Muriel Lezak News Today

How are we different from ancient humans? Since our species first appeared, we’ve been on a wild ride from the Stone Age to the Space Age.

As the year draws to a close, we look back on researchers we bid farewell to, and the contributions they made to their respective fields.

Martin A. Schmidt will succeed Shirley Ann Jackson as president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

A neuropsychologist, she wrote a textbook that became an essential guide to describing and evaluating brain damage and dysfunction.