For Yet Better Science

Mae Carol Jemison is an American engineer, physician, and former NASA astronaut. She became the first African-American woman to travel into space when she served as a mission specialist aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour in 1992.

Collaborations between the academy and governments promise to improve the lives of people, the operations of government, and our understanding of human behavior and public policy. This review shows that the evidence-informed policy movement consists of two main threads: ( a ) an effort to invent new policies using insights from the social and behavioral science consensus about human behavior and institutions and ( b ) an effort to evaluate the success of governmental policies using transparent and high-integrity research designs such as randomized controlled trials. We argue that the problems of each approach may be solved or at least well addressed by teams that combine the two. We also suggest that governmental actors ought to want to learn about  why  a new policy works as much as they want to know  that  the policy works. We envision a future evidence-informed public policy practice that ( a ) involves cross-sector collaborations using the latest theory plus deep contextual knowled

  "The cardinal sin of every poster I've seen, including the posters I've designed myself, is that they assume people are going to stand there and read our posters in silence for 10 straight minutes, following the order of the sections we've laid out."

Rita Levi-Montalcini   OMRI   OMCA  ( US :  / ˌ l eɪ v i   ˌ m oʊ n t ɑː l ˈ tʃ iː n i ,   ˌ l ɛ v -,   ˌ l iː v i   ˌ m ɒ n t əl ˈ -/ ,   Italian:  [ˈriːta ˈlɛːvi montalˈtʃiːni] ; 22 April 1909 – 30 December 2012) was an Italian  Nobel laureate , honored for her work in  neurobiology . She was awarded the 1986  Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine  jointly with colleague  Stanley Cohen  for the discovery of  nerve growth factor  (NGF).

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1983 Born: 16 June 1902, Hartford, CT, USA Died: 2 September 1992, Huntington, NY, USA Affiliation at the time of the award: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, USA Prize motivation: “for her discovery of mobile genetic elements”

Perhaps the finest nature writer of the Twentieth Century, Rachel Carson (1907-1964) is remembered more today as the woman who challenged the notion that humans could obtain mastery over nature by chemicals, bombs and space travel than for her studies of ocean life. Her sensational book Silent Spring (1962) warned of the dangers to all natural systems from the misuse of chemical pesticides such as DDT, and questioned the scope and direction of modern science, initiated the contemporary environmental movement.  

Lise Meitner  ( / ˈ l iː z ə   ˈ m aɪ t n ər /   LEE -zə  MYTE -nər ,  German:  [ˈliːzə ˈmaɪtnɐ]   ( listen ) ; born Elise Meitner, 7 November 1878 – 27 October 1968) was an Austrian-Swedish  physicist  who was one of those responsible for the discovery of the element  protactinium  and  nuclear fission . While working on radioactivity at the  Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Chemistry  in  Berlin , she discovered the  radioactive isotope   protactinium-231  in 1917. In 1938, Meitner and her nephew, the physicist  Otto Robert Frisch ,  discovered nuclear fission . She was praised by  Albert Einstein  as the "German  Marie Curie ".