A Fond Farewell
This is my last year as Chair of the Jane Coffin Childs Board of Scientific Advisors (BSA). Joan Steitz, the former Chair of the BSA, invited me to join the Board in 1993 and then […]
This is my last year as Chair of the Jane Coffin Childs Board of Scientific Advisors (BSA). Joan Steitz, the former Chair of the BSA, invited me to join the Board in 1993 and then […]
Joining the BSA this year is Huda Zoghbi, HHMI investigator and professor in the departments of Pediatrics, Molecular and Human Genetics, and Neurology and Neuroscience at Baylor College of Medicine. I am truly excited about […]
A pounding heartbeat, quick breathing, sweaty palmswe all know these common responses to fearful situations. The signal that initiates fear in our bodies begins in a structure of the brain known as the amygdala. But […]
From the National Library of Medicine and the Department of Special Collections and Archives of Stanford University: We have completed our selection of graduate students. It was unusually difficult this year, I thought, because of […]
Carol Prives, DaCosta Professor of Biology at Columbia University, is delighted to join the BSA this year. The quality and breadth of applicants for this fellowship is extremely impressive, as are my fellow scientific board […]