On May 13, 2016, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) announced a new National…
On Nov. 19, 2015, AquaBounty Technologies announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had approved the Company’s…
On Oct. 19, 2015, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) geochemists announced evidence that life likely existed on…
On Sept. 10, 2014, an international team of scientists from Singapore, Thailand, China and Australia announced that they…
On Jul. 19, 2014, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) responded to a multi-state outbreak…
On Jul. 7, 2014, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) announced a $50 million gift from Jim and Marilyn…
On Jun. 26, 2012, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) responded to a multi-state outbreak…
On Feb. 6, 2008, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault was opened on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen near…
On Feb. 1, 2007, BP announced that it had selected the University of California, Berkeley, in partnership with…
On Jan. 17, 2006, researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) announced the development of a…
On Jan. 23, 2004, the U.S. Congress enacted the Sun Grant Research Initiative Act. The Sun Grant Research…
In August 1997, Thomas Brock and undergraduate student Hudson Freeze published their discovery of Thermus aquaticus, which they…
On Apr. 22, 1990, the second Earth Day was celebrated by more than 225 million people. The first…
In 1990, the first tests and applications of microbials to combat oil spills were used with the Exxon…
On Mar. 24, 1989, the oil tanker Exxon Valdez ran aground in Prince William Sound, Alaska, spilling 11…
In 1989, transgenic fast-growing salmon were created. In 2015, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a…
In 1982, the WISEST (Women in Scholarship, Engineering, Science & Technology) began at the University of Alberta when…
On Dec. 12, 1980, a bill to amend title 35 of the United States Code (H.R.6933, Public Law:…
In 1980, Dizhou Tong, also called Ti Chou Tung, and his colleagues in China isolated nuclei from the…
In 1972, the Florida Sea Grant was established as a partnership of academia, government, and industry focused on…
On Apr. 22, 1970, the first Earth Day was held and the modern environmental movement was born. A…
On Oct. 3, 1969, a proposal to establish “Earth Day” was submitted by John McConnell to Peter Tamaris…
On Oct. 15, 1966, the U.S. Congress enacted the National Sea Grant College Program Act. Today, the National…
In 1966, Kimishige (“Kimi”) Ishizaka, along with his wife Teruko (‘Terry’) Ishizaka, first described a new antibody isotype:…
In 1962, Silent Spring, a book by marine biologist Rachel Carson, galvanized the first generation of environmentalists. Silent…
In 1939, embryologist E.E. Just published The Biology of the Cell Surface, and pioneered ideas about the importance…
Founded in 1930, the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution was formed as part of the Marine Biological Laboratory and…
On Dec. 4, 1921, the first observance of American Education Week began, running until December 10 with the…
In 1921, the Alberta Research Council (ARC), was founded by a provincial government Order-in-Council as the Scientific and…
In 1899, Flathead Lake Biological Station (FLBS) established near Bigfork in 1899 by Dr. Morton J. Elrod, Distinguished…