The Kavli Foundation and the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) have joined forces through a $5 million gift from the Foundation to support the NAS's Frontiers of Science symposia.
Fred Kavli has been selected by the board of editors of Scientific American magazine for inclusion in the fourth annual Scientific American 50 as Policy Leader of the Year.
Fred Kavli has been awarded the 2005 "Best of Small Tech Awards: Advocate" by Small Times magazine, which covers developments in the micro and nanotechnology industry.
Theodor W. Hänsch, who earlier this month won the Nobel Prize in Physics, will be among the speakers at the Kavli Nanoscience Institute Inaugural Symposium.
U.S. advantages in the marketplace and in science and technology have Gathering Stormeroded, says a panel of the National Academy of Sciences in a new report.