Biophysical Society Newsletter | July 2017

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BIOPHYSICAL SOCIETY NEWSLETTER

2017

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Members in the News Congratulations to these BPS members for the awards and recognition reported here. The following BPS members were elected to the National Academy of Sciences: Yale Goldman , University of Pennsylvania and Society member since 1980. Leemor Joshua-Tor , Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

and Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Society member since 2007.

The following BPS members received Sloan Fellowships: Polly Fordyce , Stanford University and Society member since 2002.

Nikta Fakhri , Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Society member since 2001 (not pictured).

Randy Stockbridge , University of Michigan and Society member since 2016.

Yan Yu , Indiana University and Society member since 2010.

Carol V. Robinson , Oxford Uni- versity and Society member since 2010, was named a Foreign As- sociate of the National Academy of Sciences.

Frances Separovic , University of Melbourne and Society member since 1985, was awarded the University of New South Wales Alumni Award for Science and Technology.

Jennifer Doudna , University of California, Berkeley and Society member since 2015, was awarded the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Biomedi- cine category, along with Emmanuelle Charpentier and Francisco Martínez Mojica, for their pioneering work with CRISPR/Cas 9 techniques.

Raghuveer Parthasarathy , University of Oregon and Society member since 2002, received the Kavli Microbiome Ideas Challenge.