2017 Annual Report

Table of Contents 2017 Year in Review

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Letter fromH. Robert Horvitz, Chair Letter fromMaya Ajmera, President & CEO

Overview and Top Ten

2017 Society Competitions Regeneron Science Talent Search

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Intel International Science and Engineering Fair

BroadcomMASTERS

Alumni

Science News Media Group

Science News

Science News for Students

Outreach & Equity

Science News in High Schools Advocate Grant Program Research Teachers Conference STEMAction & Research Grants

Science News | NOVEMBER 25, 2017 GOING APE

Orangutans living in the forested foothills of Sumatra became their own species in 2017: Pongo tapanuliensis , or the Tapanuli orangutan. Skeletal and genetic evidence puts these apes on an evolutionary trajectory separate from other orangutans in Sumatra and Borneo. Numbering no more than 800, the Tapanuli orangutan lives on the brink of extinction due in part to habitat degradation and hunting.

Society for Science & the Public

Financials

Giving

Board of Trustees

Executive Team and Staff

TIM LAMAN

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