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SFI announced today that Sidney Redner will join the Institute's resident faculty in July 2014. Redner now chairs the physics department at Boston University.

SFI's Maureen Psaila-Dombrowski explores ways educators can engage U.S. students in computer science. The column is the latest in a series of SFI-written "Science for a Complex World" articles.

The White House announced Wednesday that President Barack Obama will name France Cordova to lead the National Science Foundation. Cordova is an SFI visiting professor.

In a July 31 talk in Santa Fe, ASU President Michael Crow suggested a new kind of academic institution that might be up to addressing tomorrow's complex and interrelated challenges. Watch his presentation.

In a June 26 SFI Community Lecture video, physicist Leonard Susskind reviews what modern cosmology can tell us about our notions of time and asks how we know the past is different from the future. Watch the video.

SFI External Professor Elhanan Borenstein and graduate student Roie Levy model species interactions in the human microbiome and show that microbes that fiercely compete are more likely to cohabitate in an individual.

In Nature this week, SFI External Professor Andreas Wagner and University of Zurich colleague Aditya Barve, by simulating changes in an organism’s metabolism, show that most evolved traits may emerge as non-crucial "exaptations" rather than as selection-advantageous adaptations.

The four-week 2013 complex systems summer school, held annually in Santa Fe and at various times in China and South America, was the 32th SFI summer school in 25 years. The 2013 school’s 59 participants included an interesting first: a 2nd generation SFIer.

SFI and the Santa Fe Alliance for Science have recognized 13 outstanding seniors and two teachers from Santa Fe-area high schools with the High School Prize for Scientific Excellence.

In a June 4 SFI Community Lecture in Santa Fe, David Eagleman described how most behaviors are driven by brain networks that we do not consciously control, and then asks what this implies for the legal system. Watch the talk.

In a May 30 SFI Community Lecture in Santa Fe, Barbara Natterson-Horowitz drew from the latest in medical and veterinary science to propose an approach to health for doctors treating patients of all species. Watch her presentation.

SFI External Professor and Science Board member Stephanie Forrest has been named a Jefferson Science Fellow. She will spend a year in Washington, D.C., as a science advisor with the U.S. State Department and USAID.

In a cover paper in the June 20 issue of Science, SFI Professor Luis Bettencourt offers a unified, quantitative framework for understanding how cities function and grow.

SFI's 2013 Community Lecture series continued May 9 in Santa Fe, with psychologist, philosopher, author, and mother Alison Gopnik on “The Minds of Children.” Watch the video of her presentation here.

SFI Omidyar Fellow Alums Caroline Buckee and Nathan Eagle are featured in an MIT Technology Review article that explores the implications of cell phone data, especially the potential blunting the spread of disease.

Ever wonder what SFI scientists like to think about? How many countries SFI External Professors represent? Who SFI's 300-plus donors are? SFI's 2012 Annual Report contains this and much more.

A new multimedia exhibit at the Santa Fe Children's Museum gives kids a glimpse of what SFI scientists are learning about cities.

Four Santa Fe-area high school students teamed up with three SFI scientists to study data about the effectiveness of ignition interlock devices in curbing drunken driving accidents in New Mexico, with illustrative results.

The popular Science On Screen series continued Wednesday, May 8, with SFI's Simon DeDeo and the 1992 cult hacker film Sneakers. If you missed the event, you can read DeDeo's remarks here.

It has long been assumed that the advent of farming 12 millennia ago led to the advent of private property rights. A new paper and some mathematical modeling by SFI researchers tell a very different story.