An Interview with Presidential Nominee of the National Academy of Sciences Neil Shubin | The Chicago Maroon
University of Chicago Professor Neil Shubin is former interim director of the Marine Biological Laboratory and a frequent MBL Whitman Center scientist. Photo courtesy of University of Chicago.
Neil Shubin, the Robert R. Bensley Professor of Organismal Biology and Anatomy and associate dean of basic science research and academic strategy, was nominated on July 14 by the Council of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) to serve as the next president of the NAS.
Shubin spoke with the Maroon on July 24 about how his experience as an educator at UChicago has helped shape his interest in science communication and his goal to make NAS reports readily accessible to the American public. Read the rest of the story here.
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