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National Academies Launch Global Climate and Environmental Research Fellowship Program

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine have launched a new fellowship program, the Global Climate and ...
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Gulf Research Program Welcomes Eight New Early-Career Research Fellows Building Community Resilience

The Gulf Research Program (GRP) of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine announced today its 2026-2028 cohort of Early-Career Research Fellows in the Community Resilience track ...
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Committee to Advise GRP on Rapid Response to Oil Spills of National Significance

This advisory committee will advise the National Academies' Gulf Research Program (GRP) on GRP activities in the event of a ...
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U.S. National Academies Presidents Comment on Attack on the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

In a statement on the recent attack of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, the presidents of the U.S. National ...
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Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology

This is a meeting of the Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology. The committee will discuss needs of the chemistry and ...
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Eight Winners Selected for the 2026 TRB Airport Cooperative Research Program’s Graduate Research Awards

WASHINGTON — The Transportation Research Board’s Airport Cooperative Research Program announced today this year’s recipients of its annual ACRP Graduate Research Awards. The prestigious award focuses ...
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ARPA-E Plays Unique and Valuable Role in Energy Innovation and Should Be Reliably Funded, Says New Report

WASHINGTON — Congress should continue to provide reliable funding for the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy, as it plays a unique and valuable role in the nation’s energy innovation ecosystem, ...
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The Science of Extreme Event Attribution — Which Analyzes Climate Change’s Influence on Specific Weather Events — Has Advanced, But Challenges Remain

WASHINGTON — A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine provides a comprehensive assessment of the current capabilities of extreme event attribution (EEA) — a ...
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Attribution of Extreme Weather and Climate Events and their Impacts

Event attribution seeks to tease out the influence of human-caused climate change on specific weather and climate events. This study will update and expand on the 2016 National Academies report, ...
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U.S. Needs New Drought Assessment Framework as Droughts Become More Severe and Unpredictable

WASHINGTON — Droughts in the United States are becoming more intense and unpredictable, and the nation needs to develop a new drought assessment framework to better understand and address them, ...
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FAA Urged to Revise its Approach to Radiation Exposure for Flight Crewmembers; Current Approaches Are Insufficient, Says New Report

WASHINGTON — The Federal Aviation Administration should exert its existing regulatory authority over ionizing radiation as an occupational hazard to ensure the health and safety of airplane flight ...
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Statement by National Academies Presidents on Importance of NSF’s Ocean Observatories Initiative

In announcing its decision to begin removing the Ocean Observatories Initiative’s (OOI) deep-sea infrastructure, the National Science Foundation inaccurately cited a 2025 National Academies report on ...