National Medal of Science Archives

Rory A. Cooper, who uses a wheelchair, shakes hands with President Biden in the East Room of the White House. A uniformed man stands next to them holding a National Medal for Technology and Innovation to be presented to Cooper. — President Joe Biden presents the National Medal of Technology and Innovation to Rory A. Cooper, of the University of Pittsburgh and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, at a ceremony in the East Room of the White House Oct. 24 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Biden’s tech and innovation medal recipients include those with VA, Energy, NIH ties

Federal government awardees honored for their innovations in mobility devices, cancer treatments, and drinking water technologies.

Oct 24, 2023 By Madison Alder

Breast cancer geneticist, ‘bionic eye’ creator among National Medal winners

The latest winners of the National Medal of Science and National Medal of Technology and Innovation include doctors, physicists and mathematicians, being honored for groundbreaking work at…

Dec 23, 2015

Obama commends National Medal of Science and Technology winners for ‘pushing boundaries’

Biochemist Bruce Alberts, left, is presented with a National Medal of Science by President Barack Obama Thursday. Obama awarded 18 people the National Medal of Science and…

Nov 20, 2014