A committee considers projects in science and medicine,technology,exploration and discovery, the environment and cultural history.

VOA: special.2009.02.09

"Booster ignition and lift off for space shuttle Discovery, taking the space station to full power for full science,"

VOA: standard.2009.03.15

"I'd have to say that equally on both sides of the coin, my successes with regards to my science are the discovery of the genetic basis of a number of different human skin diseases, using very unconventional approaches, which are now approaches in medical textbooks, but at the time, they were very unconventional."

VOA: standard.2010.03.29