NSF at Age 25

Human behavioral complexity peaks at age 25

Random Item Generation tasks (RIG) are commonly used to assess high cognitive abilities such as inhibition or sustained attention. They also draw upon our approximate sense of complexity. A detrimental effect of aging on pseudo-random productions has been demonstrated for some tasks, but little is as yet known about the developmental curve of cognitive complexity over the lifespan. We investiga...

Evolution and growth at NSF.

942 Evidence for Great Holocene Earthquakes Along the Outer Coast of Washington State: B. F. ATWATER 944 Interferon-y and B Cell Stimulatory Factor-1 Reciprocally Regulate Ig Isotype Production: C. M. SNAPPER AND W. E. PAUL 947 Electrophoretic Evidence for Genetic Diploidy in the Bracken Fern (Pteridium aquilinum): P. G. WOLF, C. H. HAUFLER, E. SHEFFIELD 949 Effect of Lizards on Spider Populati...

Rita Colwell: sea change at the NSF

If you had to choose one word to describe Rita Colwell, it would probably be ‘indefatigable’. A small woman who could easily pass for a decade younger than her 63 years, Colwell is renowned for her energy and ability to make things happen. These qualities should serve her well in her next job, as director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) — for which she awaits confirmation by the US Sen...

Nsf.

Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) facilitate largescale identification of genomic variants that are associated with complex traits. However, susceptibility loci identified by GWAS so far generally account for a limited fraction of the genotypic variation in patient populations. Predictive models based on identified loci also have modest success in risk assessment and therefore are of limit...

Explorer Hippocampus at 25