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Member News

Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo (University of California, San Francisco) was awarded the 2022 Population Research Prize by the American Heart Association.

Sally Field (Santa Monica, California) received the 2023 SAG Life Achievement Award.

Richard A. Meserve (Carnegie Institution for Science) is the recipient of the American Physical Society’s Joseph A. Burton Forum Award.

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