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 This Week in PNAS 
Highlights from the recent edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), the Academy's scientific journal

  NAS Members Selected for Obama Administration
Six NAS members have been selected by President-elect Barack Obama to serve in his administration

  Biographical Memoirs
Access more than 1,000 biographies of leading U.S. scientists including Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, Margaret Mead, Louis Agassiz, and Joseph Henry

News:

  Current Approaches to U.S. Health Care IT Are Insufficient
Jan. 9, 2009: Current efforts aimed at the nationwide deployment of health care information technology (IT) will not be sufficient to achieve medical leaders' vision of health care in the 21st century and may even set back the cause.

  Lecture Explores Science and Economic Growth in Africa
Jan. 9, 2009: In a public lecture, Harvard professor and NAS foreign associate Calestous Juma explored the role emerging technologies can play in fostering economic growth and improving human welfare in Africa. His talk focused on new opportunities for international cooperation on development issues in light of the current global food and financial crises.

  National Security Controls on S&T Should Be Restructured
Jan. 8, 2009: Many U.S. export and visa controls, developed during the Cold War to prevent the transfer of technological and scientific advances to our enemies, now harm U.S. national security and economic prosperity. The current regulations were designed for a world that no longer exists and are unsuitable for today's adversaries. Immediate executive action is needed to restructure this system to prevent further declines in U.S. scientific and technological competitiveness.

  NAE Awards $1.5 Million for Accomplishments in Engineering
Jan. 5, 2009: The National Academy of Engineering will award the Charles Stark Draper Prize to Robert H. Dennard for his invention of Dynamic Random Access Memory. Elmer Gaden will receive the Fritz J. and Dolores H. Russ Prize for pioneering the engineering of biological reactors for large-scale, low-cost production of antibiotics and other drugs. Tom Byers and Tina Seelig will share the Bernard M. Gordon Prize for advancing education resources in technology entrepreneurship for engineering students and educators.

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