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You are invited to a special screening of PARTICLE FEVER, a new documentary that serves as an all access pass inside the Large Hadron Collider and the hunt for the Higgs boson. Learn more at particlefever.com.
Screening will be held at 7pm on Wednesday, March 12 at E Street Cinema in Washington DC. Rep. Dan Lipinski will give opening remarks and Science Magazine's Marsha McNutt will moderate a discussion with filmmakers David Kaplan and Mark Levinson. RSVP required: please RSVP at rsvp@prcollaborative.com.
The Chicago Council on Science and Technology is now accepting submissions for the 2014 Advancing the Public Understanding of Science & Technology Award nominees. The award was created to honor individuals who share in the passion & mission of C²ST to increase the awareness of the great R&D taking place in our region.
The Chang-Lin Tien Education Leadership Award recognizes Asian Americans with significant academic accomplishments with the potential to advance to the highest leadership levels in higher education. The recipient will receive a $10,000 grant award. Nominations are due March 15, 2014.
NAE members are invited to nominate one or two young engineers to be considered for participation in the NAE’s 2014 U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium (US FOE).
The National Academies Keck Futures Initiative (NAKFI) a project of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine, invites candidates to apply for this year’s conference on Collective Behavior: From Cells to Societies. .
The Yvonne C. Brill Lectureship in Aerospace Engineering has been established in the memory of Yvonne C. Brill, pioneering rocket scientist, AIAA Honorary Fellow, and NAE member. Nominations are now being solicited for the inaugural lectureship to be held September 2014.