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FY 2027 R&D Appropriations: the President's Budget Request

The President's Budget Request (PBR) has been released, agencies have released their congressional budget justifications (CBJ), and details of the budget proposal are coming to light. This report aims ...
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Biomedical Engineer John Drazan Turns Hoops into Hands-on Science

John Drazan discovered his passion for science on the basketball court, not the classroom. After getting pushed out of the ...
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AAAS Statement on U.S. Administration’s FY27 Budget Request

Once again, we urge lawmakers to deny the steep cuts proposed to federal R&D funding in the Administration’s Budget Request ...
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Prize winner’s research reprograms tumor cells to trigger antitumor immunity

For his work towards developing a novel cancer immunotherapy that turns tumors into their own vaccines, Fábio Rosa has ...
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Researcher wins women’s health prize for work redefining patient care in early pregnancy loss

Courtney Schreiber has won the 2026 BioInnovation Institute & Science Translational Medicine Prize for Innovations in Women’s ...
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AAAS Honorary Fellows

AAAS Fellows are a distinguished cadre of scientists, engineers and innovators who have been recognized for their achievements across disciplines, from research, teaching, and technology, to ...
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Interactive Dashboards

AAAS provides several interactive data visualizations. They fall under three broad categories: Historical Dashboards which allow the user to visualize and manipulate historical R&D spending data at ...
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Catalyzing Advocacy in Science and Engineering Workshop

The 2026 CASE Workshop will be held in person in the Washington, DC, area from April 12 - 15, 2026. Students interested in attending must apply for sponsorship through a sponsoring institution, which ...
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2025 AAAS Fellows

AAAS proudly congratulates the newly elected 2025 Fellows! In 2025, the AAAS Council elected 449 members as Fellows of AAAS. Election as a Fellow honors members whose efforts on behalf of the ...
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Benchmarks for Science Literacy

Benchmarks for Science Literacy is not a curriculum, a curriculum framework, or a plan for a curriculum. It provides educators with sequences of specific learning goals that they can use to design a ...
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Communicating Science Seminar

For ten years, the AAAS Center for Public Engagement with Science & Technology hosted a Communicating Science Seminar at each AAAS Annual Meeting. The seminar provided a forum for learning and ...
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Federal R&D Budget Dashboard

Welcome to the AAAS Federal R&D Budget Historical Dashboard, an interactive tool for exploring long-term federal funding trends within the context of the broader budget. The dashboard allows users to ...