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This is a list of science centers in the United States. American Alliance of Museums (AAM) and Association of Science and Technology Centers (ASTC) member centers are granted institutional benefits and may offer benefits to individuals through purchased or granted individual memberships as well.
The Smithsonian Affiliations program was established in 1996 by Smithsonian Secretary I. Michael Heyman [3] [4] with the approval of the Smithsonian Board of Regents, in response to several challenges the Institution faced at the time: a decrease in federal funding, limited storage space for expanding collections, and the need to make the Institution more reflective of the nation without ...
There are five different kinds of membership [15] within the World Data System. A map and directory of membership is available online. Regular: organizations that are data stewards and/or data analysis services (e.g., data centers and services that support scientific research by holding and providing data or data products)
For example, as of 2021, the Birmingham Museum of Art offers reciprocal benefits through international and regional programs. [11] Art museums associated with colleges or universities have organized a College and University Art Museums Reciprocal Program (CUAMRP, previously called the Academic Art Museum Reciprocal Membership program).
International Academy of the History of Science; Angiosperm Phylogeny Group; AOAC International; Arab Regional Centre for World Heritage; Asia Pacific Network of Science and Technology Centres; Asia-Oceania Top University League on Engineering; Association for Chemoreception Sciences; International Association for Engineering Geology and the ...
Initially conceived in 1954 as the Society for the Advancement of General Systems Theory, and started in 1955/56, the Society for General Systems Research became the first interdisciplinary and international co-operation in the field of systems theory and systems science. [2] In 1988 it was renamed to the International Society for the Systems ...
The acceptance criterion is delivered scientific achievements. Academy membership is therefore regarded as a great honor, and prestigious. Besides regular members, there are foreign members and corresponding members. Since a new membership system was introduced in 2011 there will be no new corresponding members.
Membership of the National Academy of Sciences is an award granted to scientists that the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) of the United States judges to have made “distinguished and continuing achievements in original research”. [1] [4] Membership is a mark of excellence in science and one of the highest honors that a scientist can receive.