Robin Terry Brown

“It’s about time for us all to be together!” proclaimed NEA-Retired President Sarah Borgman, as she addressed the first in-person NEA-Retired Annual Meeting in two years. Gathering in Chicago, on July 29 and 30, some 316 delegates participated in a hybrid format—in person and virtually—representing the 324,000 members of NEA-Retired. The meeting convened against a complex backdrop of national issues: June Supreme Court rulings that overturned Roe v.

Abstract Recent interest in Antarctic subglacial lakes has seen the development of bespoke systems for sampling them. These systems are considered pristine environments potentially harboring undisturbed sedimentary sequences and ecosystems adapted to these cold oligotrophic environments in the absence of sunlight. The water/sediment interface is considered a prime location for the detection of microbial life and so is of particular interest.

Eleven years ago you would have found Betsy Levy Paluck, then a PhD ­student, chauffeuring her research team through the undulating roads of Rwanda. Those white-knuckle truck rides to study conflict reduction in Rwandan communities set Paluck on a path to receiving one of the world's most prestigious fellowships.