How did a Chinese immigrant who once studied neurotransmitters in fruit flies wind up on stage telling jokes at the expense of the second-highest ranking U.S. official? According to comedian Joe Wong, delivering jokes and getting data have more in c…

With the analytical mind of a scientist, Jaffe is part of a new generation of baseball scribes more interested in using objective statistics than hagiographic mythology in their reporting and commentary.

Once the head of an oncogene research laboratory, novelist Stephanie Laurens has chartered an unusual career path to become one of the most successful romantic fiction authors today.

A select group of women with training in STEM and successful careers demonstrate that there is more to cheerleading than glitz and glamour.

He poured his scientific training into the development of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream.

ASBMB's Geoffrey Hunt and Rajendrani Mukhopadhyay continue our "Defying stereotypes" series with this profile of Olympic runner Nick Symmonds.

Kevin Grevioux, star of the “Underworld” movie series, moved from a laboratory to an actor’s trailer.

With a Ph.D. in theoretical physics, film director Mark Levinson’s résumé stands out from his Hollywood peers’

For Raven Hanna, the motivation to launch a science-themed jewelry company came from a dark place.

Michelle Grey aims to develop initiatives that bring together science with the arts into one synergistic experience for the Neuehouse patrons.

Beauty. Glamour. Style. Miss America 2014 Nina Davuluri has these qualities in abundance. She also has a degree in brain behavior and cognitive science.

Boston Red Sox pitcher Craig Breslow proves that athletics and science are not mutually exclusive pursuits.

Whether fronting the punk-rock band Bad Religion or delivering a lecture on evolution, Greg Graffin challenges his audiences to question convention.

Milo Aukerman is both a molecular biologist and the lead singer of the punk-rock band Descendents.

Dexter Holland, the lead singer of the punk-rock band The Offspring, has a lot of different interests. One of them is biology.

Lovell Jones, a professor at both the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and the University of Houston, won the society’s Ruth Kirschstein Diversity in Science Award.

Susan Marqusee, professor of molecular and cell biology at the University of California, Berkeley, won the society’s William C. Rose Award.

Stuart Kornfeld, professor of medicine in the School of Medicine at Washington University in St. Louis, is honored for his seminal research in the field of glycobiology.

The work of Peter Espenshade, associate professor of cell biology at Johns Hopkins University, was called "brilliantly conceived and flawlessly executed."

Barry Honig has won the ASBMB's 2012 DeLano Award for Computational Biosciences

Xiaodong Wang, a former Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator now at the National Institute of Biological Sciences in Beijing, was lauded as "one of the most highly original, bold and creative scientists."

Kim Orth won the 2012 ASBMB Young Investigator Award.

Peggy Farnham is honored for her leadership and pioneering work analyzing transcriptional elements involved in regulation of cell-signaling pathways.

Donald and Judith Voet of the University of Pennsylvania and Swarthmore College, respectively, have achieved "superstar status."

Rutgers University's George M. Carman received the ASBMB's Avanti Award in Lipids for his seminal contributions to the understanding of lipid metabolism.

Ullu was recognized for her lab’s work with the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma brucei, which causes African sleeping sickness, to uncover a novel mechanism of gene silencing known as RNA interference.

Although many of us know people who work in science policy, what these jobs entail is often a mystery.