Tell me a fact and I’ll learn. the truth believe. story I will carry it in my heart forever. — Proverb often cited by Rep. Jim Cooper FOLDSCOPES AND FRUGAL SCIENCE: PAPER MICROSCOPES MAKE SCIENCE GLOBALLY ACCESSIBLE Manu Prakash Cybulski National Science Foundation Institutes of Health HOW A LAB INCIDENT LED TO BLADELESS LASIK EYE SURGERY FOR 24 MILLION PEOPLE Ron Kurtz Tibor Juhasz Detao Du Gerard Mourou Donna Strickland Department Energy SBIR Foundation SBIR TINY SNAIL BIG IMPACT: CONE SNAIL VENOM INJECTS NEW ENERGY INTO PAIN RELIEF NERVOUS SYSTEM RESEARCH Craig T. Clark Lourdes J. Cruz Michael McIntosh Baldomero Marquez Olivera Institute General Medical Sciences MAKING MRNA Dr. Katalin Karikó Drew Weissman THE FAST CURIOUS Stephen Checkoway Tadayoshi Kohno Karl Koscher Stefan Savage SECRETS OF SERMS V. Jordan Health U.S Defense LLAMA NAMED WINTER Jason McLellan Daniel Wrapp Energy HUMAN IMMUNOME: SMALL MOVES BECOME MOVEMENT James Crowe Defense SPIKE IN MOMENTUM Kizzmekia Corbett Barney Graham Emmie de Wit Vincent Munster BLOOD HORSESHOE CRAB Jack Levin Frederik Bang Atomic Commission U.S. Public Service ADVANCING AUTOIMMUNITY Noel Rose Ernest Witebsky FROG SKIN THAT SAVED 50 LIVES David Sachar USAID Centers for Disease Control Prevention IMPLICIT BIAS EXPLICIT SCIENCE Mahzarin Banaji Anthony Greenwald Brian Nosek CHICKENS CELLS CYTOKINES Stanley Cohen GOOSE GLAND: DISCOVERIES IMMUNOLOGY Bruce Glick Agriculture FUZZY LOGIC CLEAR IMPACT Lotfi A. Zadeh Air Force Office Scientific Research SILENCE FROGS Joyce Longcore Elaine Lamirande Don Nichols Allan Pessier The Smithsonian Institution SEA SOY SOLUTION Kaichang Li Agriculture SEX LIFE SCREWWORM FLY Edward F. Knipling Raymond C. Bushland Agricultural HONEY BEE ALGORITHM John Bartholdi III Sunil Nakrani Thomas D. Seeley Tovey Hagood Vande Vate Naval TALE TWO STUDIES: ADOLESCENT HEALTH STORY Peter Bearman Barbara Entwisle Kathleen Mullan Harris Ronald Rindfuss Richard Udry MAPS MEN Joel E. Cohen & Christopher Small OUT SIGHT: NEUROPLASTICITY VISION Torsten Wiesel Hubel TRICK OR TREAT: MARSHMALLOW TEST Walter Mischel Yuichi Shoda Philip Peake RAT INFANT MASSAGE Tiffany Field Gary Evoniuk Cynthia Kuhn Saul Schanberg AUCTION DESIGN Preston McAfee Paul Milgrom Robert Wilson BLACK HOLES SUPERCOMPUTING Larry Smarr MARKET Alvin Roth Gale Lloyd Shapley Research THERMUS AQUATIUCS Brock Hudson Freeze DIABETES MEDICATION Eng Veterans Affairs GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN Osamu Shimomura Martin Chalfie Roger Tsien MASER Charles Townes CORALLINE CERAMICS Jon Weber Eugene White Rodney Della Roy