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RASA European Committee Guidelines (Approved by the RASA Board of Directors on April 25, 2025) The RASA European Committee (EC), appointed by the Board of Directors (BoD), functions as an advisory body within the Russian-American Science Association, Corp. (RASA).    Continue →

The first Chair of the European Committee was elected to be Dmitry Dubrovsky, PhD in History (Charles University) Dmitry Dubrovsky (b. 1970) is a researcher and lecturer at Charles University (Prague, Czech Republic).  Continue →

 

Nominations accepted

The Russian-American Science Association (RASA-America) announces that two George Gamow^® awards will be awarded in 2025. The award is given to members of the Russian-speaking scientific diaspora for outstanding contributions to world science. Scholars from any field may be nominated.

Georgе Gamov is an outstanding Soviet and American physicist and popularizer of science, who made a pioneering contribution to the creation of the theory of alpha decay, the “hot Universe” model, and the application of nuclear physics to the problems of stellar evolution. He also made a significant contribution to biology, being the first to formulate the problem of the genetic code. He is widely known for popular science books, in which, based on the experience of his hero, Mr. Tompkins, he spoke in a fascinating and accessible way about modern scientific ideas. Gamow was a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences and a member of the US National Academy of Sciences.

The 2025 George Gamow award committee is chaired by Prof. Alexandra Zhernakova. Nominations should be submitted by July 20, 2025 using the Google Form. Questions about the nominations can be addressed to inforasausa@gmail.com. The award will be presented to the recipients in person at the annual RASA Conference, November 2025 in New Brunswick, NJ, USA.

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RASA History Project

CEO Sasha Kabanov on science and life A conversation with Sasha Kabanov (UNC Chapel Hill), nanomedic, president of the American Russian-Speaking Scientific Association (RASA) from 2018 to 2020, and its CEO. The first part of his story is dedicated to the time before RASA, his work in Russia, then in the United States, nostalgia, duty to his homeland, the launch of Russian Government’s mega-grants, and the struggle for high standards in the organization of science.

The Remarkable Life of Lyuba Varticovski The RASA YouTube channel now features a conversation about the life of Lyuba Varticovski, one of the founders of the American Russian-speaking Medical Association (RAMA), the predecessor of RASA. She was born in Siberia to a family of Gulag prisoners, intellectuals from Romania. Her life journey was marked by incredible adventures.

A Conversation with Igor Efimov Why didn’t the Russian-American Science Association (RASA) collapse in the spring of 2022? What is the significance of its growth now, when scientific ties with Russia have been severed? How does democracy function in the academic community, and what is the future of Russian science? The second interview in RASA’s historical project features Igor Efimov, a renowned Russian-speaking American scientist and biomedical researcher from Northwestern University in Chicago.

Interview with Roald Sagdeev We start this project by interviewing the outstanding American-Soviet physicist Roald Sagdeev, who was the director of the Institute for Space Research at the USSR Academy of Sciences during the late Soviet era. He has been living and working in the United States for over 30 years. Throughout these years, he has greatly contributed to fostering collaboration between American and Russian scientists.

 

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