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Gain insights into the significance of the oceans and their impact on our global ecosystem.
Increasing Influence, Impacting Policy: Training in Effective Communications with Policymakers
Explorations in Consciousness: Death, Psychedelics, and Mystical Experiences
AVAILABLE ON-DEMAND. Keynote Speakers include Karen Armstrong, OBE, FRSL & Raymond A. Moody Jr., MD, PhD
Join the New York Academy of Sciences and Johnson & Johnson for a series of engaging and insightful webinars with extraordinary scientists whose discoveries have made a profound impact on human health.
A look at challenges and opportunities in food and nutrition science research.
As university budgets shrink and external funding sources becoming more competitive, the ability to write successful research grants is more important than ever. In this eBriefing, learn strategies for effective grant writing, specifically applied to fellowship applications in biomedical fields.
Now more than ever, it's clear that being able to collaborate across fields and borders is crucial for the advancement of science. Find out how our Members across sectors have built innovative cross-disciplinary teams.
It is understood that human milk provides benefits to babies as they develop, particularly in its ability to help protect babies from a variety of infections. But what is the mechanism that does the work to help keep babies healthy? Find out in this interview with Academy Member and Vanderbilt University Professor Steven Townsend.
When three scientists working across different disciplines, universities, and continents teamed up as part of the Interstellar Initiative—an international mentorship program for early-career investigators—their first task was finding common ground. Find out how they did it and how their work might contribute to the study of aging.
The Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists celebrate the achievements of extraordinary young scientists and engineers and accelerate innovation through unrestricted funding.
The Junior Academy introduces exceptional students to an online community where they gain access to best-in-class STEM resources and work together to solve real-world problems. STEM professionals mentor student teams during 60-day innovation challenges sponsored by industry-leading companies via Launchpad, our interactive challenge platform. Students and mentors can participate from anywhere in the world and have multiple challenges a year to choose from. Accepted students and mentors receive free membership to the New York Academy of Sciences!
Available exclusively to our Member community, Member-to-Member Mentoring is a self-directed mentoring program that matches early career scientists and engineers with experienced STEM professionals for advice and coaching.
What is the nature of consciousness? What happens to it at the brink of death—and beyond? In what ways can the scientific study of near-death experiences and the medicinal use of psychedelic compounds boost our understanding of the human condition and our ability to ease emotional suffering?
Sponsored by the Clifford Chance Cornerstone Initiative, the Spring 2022 competition tasked students aged 13-17 from Kigali, the country’s capital, to use micro-gardening techniques to broaden access to nutritious food sources.
Professor Nicholas Dirks marks his two-year anniversary with a look at how the Academy is fulfilling its mission in new ways.
As the New York Academy of Sciences continues into its third century, Nicholas Dirks is at the helm of an extraordinary organization with a talented staff, a global community of more than 20,000 Members, and a network of top-echelon leaders in science, industry, academia, government and public policy. Bringing all these people together, the Academy is taking on COVID-19 and other world-wide challenges with the best solutions that science, technology, and bright minds can offer.
Posted January 18, 2019
Kristifor Sunderic is an NYC based freelance science writer interested in the intersection of biotechnology and society.
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a devastating neurodegenerative disorder for which there is a major unmet therapeutic need. Limited success from current translational models and amyloid-centric clinical trials highlight the need for broader therapeutic strategies. As a result, researchers are closely examining interactions between the brain and the immune system to understand how innate immune processes affect the pathology of Alzheimer’s disease. On September 25, 2018, the New York Academy of Sciences hosted Neuro-Immunology: The Impact of Immune Function on Alzheimer’s Disease, a symposium that brought together experts working at the intersection of neurology and immunology, with the goal of targeting the immune system for next-generation Alzheimer’s disease therapeutics.
Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Columbia University Irving Medical Center
University of Kentucky
Emory University School of Medicine
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Harvard Medical School
Indiana University School of Medicine
The Jackson Laboratory