Hutchison Young Scientist Foundation

Young Scientist Forum

A plant Photosystem I (PSI) is a large membrane super-complex that drives photosynthesis. PSI captures sunlight through sophisticated pigment network and uses the energy to perform transmembrane electron transfer. It consists of the reaction center complex (RC), where the charge separation reaction takes place and the light harvesting complex (LHCI), which serves as an additional antenna system...

A young scientist to watch.

There are many rewards associated with serving as the Editor of the Journal of Environmental Quality ( JEQ), but I have experienced very few that compare with the pleasure associated with writing this Letter from the Editor introducing you to a new young scientist that you should keep an eye on. On 7 September 2010, I received an e-mail from ASA Editorin-Chief Dr. Warren Dick containing a PDF f...

Shine on, Young Physician-Scientist.

Physician-scientists have been recognized as an important piece for the advancement of medicine by being translators of medical research. Despite this recognized role, physician-scientists in the United States have decreased from 5% of all physician workforce in 1987 to 1.5% in 2014. Why, in spite of their relevance, have physician-scientists become a rara avis in medical research? It is a comp...

ABCD & Merial young scientist award 2017.

Reply to Hutchison and Loomis

the perceived distance to a target is influenced by the effort required to walk to its location. Hutchison and Loomis (H&L) reported an experiment that failed to find a significant influence of effort on indices of apparent distance. There were numerous important differences between the design and methods of H&L’s study and those of Proffitt et al. Moreover, there are important theoretical reas...