CAPSCI 2012 coming up March 31 – April 1
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The Washington Academy of Sciences Great Lecture Series: Dr. Michael Coble
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The Irvin Kay Memorial Fund for Science Education
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The Washington Academy of Sciences was incorporated in 1898 as an affiliation of eight Washington D.C. area scientific societies. The formation of the Academy culminated a decade of planning under the leadership of the Philosophical Society of Washington. The founders included Alexander Graham Bell and Samuel Langley, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. The purpose of the new Academy was to encourage the advancement of science and “to conduct, endow, or assist investigation in any department of science.” That purpose guided the Academy throughout its first100 years will continue to be our guide through the coming century.