The National Academies Keck Futures Initiative - NAKFI News

NAKFI Begins Accepting Applications for 2010 Conference

Mon, 15 Feb 2010 15:22:00 CST

The National Academies Keck Futures Initiative is accepting applications for its 2010 Conference on Imaging Science. Individuals interested in attending are encouraged to apply before the April 14, 2010 deadline.

National Academies 2010 Communication Awards Nominations Open

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:08:00 CST

The National Academies Keck Futures Initiative has started accepting nominations for the 2010 National Academies Communication Awards for excellence in reporting and communicating science, engineering, and/or medicine to the public during 2009.

NAKFI Conference Synthetic Biology: Building on Nature's Inspiration Featured in Nature Editorial

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 16:08:00 CST

An editorial in the January 20, 2010, issue of Nature magazine focuses on "Ten Years of Synergy," regarding contributions to and from basic science to the field of synthetic biology.

NAKFI Complex Systems Grantee Publishes Research on Cancer and Wound Healing in PNAS

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 09:00:00 CST

Complex Systems Grantee Philip LeDuc published the latest findings of his research on cancer and wound healing in the December 29, 2009, issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

NAKFI Grantees Host Workshop on Complexity of Higher Education in Developing Countries

Wed, 23 Dec 2009 09:00:00 CST

NAKFI Grantees Professors Muhammad Hamid Zaman and Adil Najam hosted a workshop on complexity of higher education in developing countries with a Futures Grant. Scholars from multiple disciplines and practitioners from around the world met at Boston University on October 27 – 28, 2009, to discuss how the success and sustainability of a higher education system can be defined in the context of a developing world.

This workshop was supported by a grant from The National Academies Keck Futures Initiative and was sponsored by the Boston University Provost’s office, the Department of Biomedical Engineering and the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future. The workshop focused on understanding the dimensions of the higher education ’systems’ in developing countries with the hope of turning that understanding into a larger program of interdisciplinary research and activity.

NAKFI Grantee Publishes Article on Clues for Extending Human Healthspan

Tue, 22 Dec 2009 08:00:00 CST

NAKFI Healthspan Grantee Steven N. Austad's article "Methusaleh's Zoo: How Nature Provides Us with Clues for Extending Human Healthspan" appears in the December 2009 issue of the Journal of Comparative Pathology. NAKFI awarded Dr. Austad a Futures Grant in the Spring of 2008 to conduct a workshop with experts in basic aging research, canine genomics, epidemiology, pathology, and the assessment of canine health, to develop a research plan to study dogs and breed differences for animal models of extended healthspan.