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The Western Center was established in 1969 to serve the
Academy members in the western region of the United States. Encompassing
thirteen states and some 1,000 members, the Western Center holds one Stated
Meeting each year as well as several smaller, informal meetings. For
additional information, contact the Western Center office.
Past Meetings
225th Anniversary Celebration and 1900th Stated Meeting,
The Letterman Digital Arts Center at the Presidio of San Francisco, March 18, 2006
Innovation: The Creative Blending of Art and Science.
Speaker: George Lucas, Chairman, Lucasfilm, Ltd.
Demonstration: Rob Coleman, Animation Director, Lucasfilm, Ltd.
Discussant: John Hennessy, President, Stanford University.
At a dinner following the presentation, George Lucas, John Hennessy, and Robert J. Birgeneau,
Chancellor of UC Berkeley, received Founders Awards.
University of California, Irvine, November 21, 2005
Fellows gathered to meet the new UCI Chancellor, Dr. Michael V. Drake, and to recognize new
Fellows.
University of California, San Diego, November 21, 2005
Veerabhadran Ramanathan, Alderson Professor of Atmospheric Sciences at UCSD, spoke on
aspects of global warming.
University of California, Berkeley, October 17, 2005
Stem Cells and the Prospects of Regenerative Medicine.
Randy Schekman, Howard Hughes
Investigator, and Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology at UC Berkeley.
Legal Issues in Stem Cell Research.
Marjorie M. Shultz, Professor of Law at the Boalt Hall
School of Law of UC Berkeley.
Stanford University, October 14, 2005
The Wages of a Mercenary Army: Issues of Civil-Military Relations.
David M. Kennedy, Donald
J. McLachlan Professor of History, Stanford University.
University of California, San Francisco, February 17, 2005
New Academy Fellow, Jay Levy, Professor of Medicine, UC, San Francisco, discussed the
Academy's science studies over the centuries.
University of California, Los Angeles, February 16, 2005
Two new Academy Fellows from UCLA--Andrea Mia Ghez, Professor of Astronomy, and Joel
Handler, Professor of Law--reported on their recent research.
California Institute of Technology, February 15, 2005
New Academy Fellow, Colin Camerer, the Rea A. and Lela G. Axline Professor of Business
Economics at CalTech, discussed his current research in neuro-economics.
Stanford University, November 23, 2004
Do We Have an Emergency Constitution?
Kathleen Sullivan, Stanley Morrison Professor of Law
and Former Dean, Stanford School of Law.
University of California, Berkeley, November 22, 2004
Fellows gathered to meet the new Berkeley Chancellor, Robert J. Birgeneau, and to recognize
new Fellows.
1883rd Stated Meeting, Seattle Art Museum, October 30, 2004
The Predicament of American Healthcare.
Harvey Fineberg, President, Institute of Medicine.
University of California, Irvine, March 16, 2004
Reliable Information in a Democracy: A Case Study
Patrick Morgan
University of California, Irvine, October 7, 2003
Conversations on the Middle East
Safi Qureshey, AST Research Inc.
1871st Stated Meeting, Los Angeles County Museum of Art,
September 13, 2003
Impressionists and Moderns: French Masteroworks from the State Pushkin Museum,
Moscow: A Story of Collecting. Stephanie Barron, Los Angeles County
Museum of Art; Collecting and Display as Subjects for History, Thomas
Crow, Getty Research Institute.
1863rd Stated Meeting, COPIA Center, Napa Valley,
November 2, 2002
Science as a Window into Wine History. Carole P. Meredith, University of
California, Davis.
1860th Stated Meeting, University of California, Irvine,
May 18, 2002
Global Climate Change and the Making of a Report to the President of the United
States. Ralph Cicerone, UC Irvine; Commentator, F. Sherwood Rowland, UC
Irvine.
1850th Stated Meeting, Monterey Bay Aquarium,
November 3, 2001
Engineering the Ocean, Marcia K. McNutt, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research
Institute.
1843rd Stated Meeting, Chong-Moon Lee Center for Asian
Art and Culture, San Francisco, March 3, 2001
Chinese Art and Authenticity. James Cahill, UC Berkeley; Commentator,
Jerome Silbergeld, University of Washington.
1836th Stated Meeting, Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles,
July 15, 2000
Premier of play The Poison Tree by Robert Glaudini, directed by Robert
Egan. Dialogue with Gordon Davidson (Center Theater Group).
1827th Stated Meeting, Birch Aquarium at Scripps
Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, November 6, 1999
Immigration: Proposition 187, Five Years Later. Moderated by Ruth Adams,
Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, UC San Diego with panel members
Frank D. Bean, UC Irvine; Leo R. Chavez, UC Irvine; and Min Zhou, UCLA.
1821st Stated Meeting, Stanford University, March 20,
1999
Impeachment and Trial of the President-A Review. Moderated by Jesse H.
Choper, UC Berkeley with panel members Vikram D. Amar, Hastings College of Law;
Nelson Polsby, UC Berkeley; and Deborah L. Rhode, Stanford University.
Symposium
University of California, Berkeley, February 27, 2004
Panel Discussion and Reception for Academy Fellows, University of California,
Berkeley. The Court and Congress, Phillip Frickey and Gordon
Silverstein, University of California, Berkeley; Comment, Neal Devins,
College of William and Mary; Nelson W. Polsby, University of California,
Berkeley. Part of the symposium: Earl Warren and the Warren Court: A Fifty-Year
Retrospect, co-sponsored by the American Academy and the Earl Warren
Legal Institute, University of California, Berkeley.
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