Medalists are selected every year by the president from a list of nominees recommended by the Committee on the National Medal of Science, administered by the National Science Foundation. Three hundred ...

The National Medal of Science was established by the 86th Congress in 1959 as a Presidential Award to be given to individuals "deserving of special recognition by reason of their outstanding ...

University Professor Eve Marder ’69 and Greg Petsko, professor of biochemistry and chemistry, emeritus, have each received the National Medal of Science, the highest recognition the United States ...

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — Teresa Woodruff, former interim president at Michigan State University, became the first MSU faculty member to receive the National Medal of Science, the highest ...

The event also featured the awarding of the National ... Medals of Science on October 18. The medals-the United States' highest scientific honor-were given to seven men and one woman. The event also ...

Woodruff is the first person from MSU to receive the prestigious award, presented to people who make significant global contributions in scientific research.

President Barack Obama announced today that Elaine Fuchs, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigator at The Rockefeller University, will receive the National Medal of Science for ...