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Purnima Ratilal, a young scientist associated with the Gulf of Maine Area field program of the Census of Marine Life, has earned one of the 2007 Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers, the nation's highest honor for professionals at the outset of their independent scientific research careers. Ratilal received the honor at a White House ceremony on December 19, 2008. Her work involves using acoustics to improve very large scale synoptic surveys of marine life. Professor Ratilal works with Northeastern University's Laboratory for Acoustics and Remote Sensing (L.A.R.S.). View the White House Press Release Learn more about the Laboratory for Acoustics and Remote Sensing Learn more about the Census of Marine Life
Several former Sloan Research Fellows (SRF) in economics are playing leading roles in the federal government's efforts to resolve the nation's economic crisis. Christina D. Romer (SRF 1989) is the Chair of the Council of Economic Advisors and Austan Goolsbee (SRF 2000) is one of the three members of the Council. Ben S. Bernanke (SRF 1983) is the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. Lawrence H. Summers (SRF 1985) is the Director of the White House's National Economic Council. Alan B. Krueger (SRF 1992) has been appointed to serve as Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy in the Treasury Department.
Alan Alda will be hosting the World Science Festival's panel "What It Means to Be Human" on Friday, June 12th at 8pm. The panel hosts E.O. Wilson, Sarah Hrdy and other leading evolutionary biologists, anthropologists and humanitarians as they examine the origins and evolution of human cooperative behavior. During the course of the discussion Mr. Alda will be showing clips of the upcoming, Sloan-sponsored show The Human Spark . The Human Spark, premiering November 9th on PBS, explores the question, "What makes us human?" For more information regarding the panel discussion, please visit the WSF website To "Share Your Spark" and give your take on what it means to be human or to learn more about the show visit The Human Spark
(Photo: David Strathairn as J. Robert Oppenheimer) The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer , the American Experience's story of the rise and fall of the American scientist who headed the Manhattan Project and helped develop the atomic bomb, has received two Emmy nominations from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Supported in part by a grant from the Sloan Foundation and starring David Strathairn in the title role, The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer was nominated in the categories of Outstanding Nonfiction Series and Outstanding Writing for Nonfiction Programming. The 61st Primetime Emmy awards air Sunday, September 20th. Watch The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer online. View the complete list of this year's Primetime Emmy nominations.
More than 300 marine scientists from all over the globe converged in London, England on October 4-7, 2010 for the official release of the first Census of Marine Life. The week's events mark the finale of the Census, a ten-year, $650 million scientific endeavor involving over 2700 scientists from more than 80 nations who worked collaboratively to catalog the diversity, distribution, and abundance of life in the world's oceans. The release of the Census's findings represent the synthesis of a vast amount of scholarship. Over the past ten years, Census researchers have gone on more than 540 research expeditions; spent 9,000 days at sea; obtained, cataloged, and archived nearly 6.4 million observations of marine species; and published more than 2,600 academic papers—about one every 1.5 days. The result is a picture of life beneath the sea unprecedented in its breadth and detail. Read more about the release of the first Census of Marine Life Watch video of the London events Read a summary of Census findings, First Census of Marine Life 2010: Highlights of a Decade of Discovery Visit the Census of Marine Life Web site
