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 E-Mail IMAGE: Joan W. Bennett, a Distinguished Professor of plant biology and pathology at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. view more  Credit: Nick Romanenko/Rutgers University Joan W. Bennett, a Distinguished Professor of plant biology and pathology at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. She joins neurosurgeon and CNN medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center atmospheric scientist Ann Thompson and media entrepreneur and philanthropist Oprah Winfrey. "Receiving this honor would not have been po...

Science|How Many Moon Craters Are Named for Women? Fewer Than You’d Guess. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/27/science/moon-craters-women.html A drawing of the lunar crater Resnik by Bettina Forget, an artist and researcher at Concordia University in Montreal. The crater is named for Judith Resnik, an astronaut who died in the 1986 Challenger disaster.Credit...Bettina Forget Sections How Many Moon Craters Are Named for Women? Fewer Than You’d Guess. By drawing the small number of lunar craters named for women, an artist hopes to highlight women’s contributions to the sciences. A...

Next image Five MIT faculty members are among more than 250 leaders from academia, business, public affairs, the humanities, and the arts elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the academy announced Thursday. One of the nation’s most prestigious honorary societies, the academy is also a leading center for independent policy research. Members contribute to academy publications, as well as studies of science and technology policy, energy and global security, social policy and American institutions, the humanities and culture, and education. Those elected from MIT this year are:...

Press release content from PR Newswire. The AP news staff was not involved in its creation. Honoring Excellence, Electing New Members: Announcement from the American Academy of Arts & Sciences April 22, 2021 GMT American Academy of Arts and Sciences (PRNewsFoto/American Academy of Arts & Scie) CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 22, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Academy of Arts & Sciences announces today the election of 252 new members. The Academy was established in 1780 by the country’s founders to provide guidance to a young nation that would face challenges and need expertise and excellence to ...

As we approach the anniversary of Lancaster County partially reopening in May 2020 ahead of Gov. Tom Wolf’s guidelines and debate the role of a potential Lancaster County health department, historians cannot help but have a sense of deja vu. Last year was not the first time Lancaster reopened against a state mandate during a pandemic. In 1918, the so-called “Spanish flu” ravaged Lancaster, much like COVID-19 has. At that time, the Lancaster city Board of Health succumbed to business and political pressure, as both Lancaster County and the city made poor decisions that endangere...