"I have known and worked with Ralph for many years, and he has been an energetic and thoughtful leader for many of our academy's efforts, as well as for the larger science community," says Alberts, a biochemist from UC San Francisco, who is completing his second 6-year term.
"It's largely due to USGS being recognized among the large science agencies as part of the larger R&D effort" and not just a mission agency to the Department of the Interior, in which it exists.
Ms. Ledewitz noted that Embry-Riddle had trained war heroes and astronauts as the largest aeronautical science degree program in the country.
The International Space Station (ISS), as the largest international science and engineering program in history, features unprecedented technical, cost, scheduling, managerial, and international complexity.
But as the largest new science project in the U.S. budget, it has drawn scrutiny from a Congress wary of the cost overruns that eventually killed the $12 billion Superconducting Super Collider.
According to Kedrosky, as recently as 2005, the largest recruiter of science and engineering graduates was the financial industry.
What's mind-boggling is that such large institutions, as large as science itself, hypnosis, neuropsychology, brain surgery, all seem to be the only comparable measure strong enough to bind Chris, the strong man.
XMM-Newton is the largest European science satellite.
The findings, published in the journal Science Advances, confirm Dinilysia patagonica as the largest burrowing snake ever known.
