AAAS history

First woman member in 1850.

The AAAS became dormant during the American Civil War; their August 1861 meeting in Nashville, Tennessee, was postponed indefinitely after the outbreak of the first major engagement of the war at Bull Run.

Until the National Academy of Sciences was formed in 1863, the AAAS served as a national forum and symbol of a growing scientific community.

In 1866, Frederick Barnard presided over the first meeting of the resurrected AAAS at a meeting in New York City.

The AAAS did, however, institute a policy of granting the title of "Fellow of the AAAS" to well-respected scientists within the organization. For example, the American Chemical Society, founded in 1876, promotes chemistry.

1889, Thomas Corwin Mendenhall

November 1894"Science" magazine was sold to James McKeen Cattell for $500.

When the psychologist James McKeen Cattell offered an arrangement that allowed the AAAS to publish the weekly Science as its official journal in 1900, the AAAS was able to achieve its dual goals, to promote (popularize) and advance (sponsor research) science through a regular publication.

1911, Charles Edwin Bessey

Gordon, William Edwin, 1918-

1924, James McKeen Cattell

1933, Henry Norris Russell

Made his first appearance before a United States scientific association at the 1934 meeting.

1936, Edwin Grant Conklin

1942"AAAS Bulletin" was started to keep in touch with members during World War II.

1946, Charles Franklin Kettering

The present state of physics : a symposium presented on December 30, 1949, at the New York meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science / arr. by Frederick S. Brackett

1951"Thousand Dollar Prize" was renamed "Newcomb Cleveland Prize" after the benefactor's death.

Charles M. Rice, in full Charles Moen Rice III, (born August 25, 1952, Sacramento, California), American virologist who was known for his contributions to the development of highly effective treatments for chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection.

Dael Wolfle became the executive officer in 1954 and helped formulate programs on the quality of science education and on political issues that were important to the scientists themselves.

One of the most controversial decisions of the AAAS involved the Atlanta meeting in 1955, which some members thought ought to be held outside the segregated South.

In 1958 the AAAS Board created the Committee on Science in the Promotion of Human Welfare to recommend responses to the issues that concerned society.

Sciences in Communist China; a symposium presented at the New York meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, December 26-27, 1960.

The development of astrophysics as a research field in the 20th century: paper presented at the American Association for the Advancement of Science's George Ellery Hale Centennial Symposium, Dallas, 1968.

Edsall, John, ed. (1975). Scientific Freedom and Responsibility. (A Report of the AAAS Committee on Scientific Freedom and Responsibility.) Washington, DC: American Association for the Advancement of Science.

1976"Newcomb Cleveland Prize" was increased to $5000 and redefined to honor authors of papers in "Science.".

Washington, D.C.: AAAS, 1980.

In 1986 Rice joined the faculty at the Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis.

Rice later discovered that a portion of the HCV genome necessary for viral replication was missing in the laboratory HCV clone reported in 1989, and he subsequently generated a culturable version of the virus.

In 1990 the Association established a Science and Human Rights Program that directed resources and expertise to use science to help bring notorious abusers of human rights to justice.

In 1991 AAAS reorganized its other ethics activities into a Program on Scientific Freedom, Responsibility and Law, which focuses on the ethics associated with the conduct of science as well as on the uses and impacts of advances in science and technology.

In 1992 the AAAS and the National Institute on Drug Abuse launched the Science Plus Literacy for Health Drug Education Project to create materials for use in adult science literacy programs and community-based adult substance abuse and mental health education programs.

In 1996 he provided a description of the complete HCV genome and the following year demonstrated the infectious nature of the cultured virus.

In celebration of its sesquicentennial in 1998, AAAS created an exhibit of artifacts, providing a glimpse at some of the people and events that have left an impression upon the association's history.

Benson, Keith, and Jane Maienschein. (1999). "Introduction: AAAS Narrative History." In The Establishment of Science in America, eds.

Awarded the AAAS Newcomb Cleveland Prize (2001).

Its work helped to unite families in Argentina, and identify victims of mass executions in Guatemala; in 2002 results of Program investigations were presented as evidence in the international war crimes trial of former Yugoslavian president, Slobodan Milosevic.

Awarded 2006 Newcomb Cleveland Prize.

In February 2007, the AAAS used satellite images to document human rights abuses in Burma.

In 2012, AAAS published op-eds, held events on Capitol Hill and released analyses of the United States federal research-and-development budget, to warn that a budget sequestration would have severe consequences for scientific progress.

In addition, his laboratory designed assays to test for drugs capable of blocking HCV replication, which led to the discovery of new therapeutic agents for hepatitis C. The first of these drugs was approved in 2013 by the United States Food and Drug Administration for use in human patients.