Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Stated Meeting - Cambridge
Science Results from the Mars Exploration Rover Mission
Location: House of the Academy
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Steven W. Squyres, Goldwin Smith Professor of Astronomy, Cornell University; Principal Investigator, Mars Exploration Rover Project
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Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Meeting - Washington, DC
Educating All Children: The Move Toward Universal Secondary Education
Location: Council on Foreign Relations
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Speakers:
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Joel E. Cohen, Rockefeller and Columbia Universities
Melissa Binder, University of New Mexico
Gene Sperling, Council on Foreign Relations
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Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Stated Meeting - Cambridge
Performing the Passion: J.S. Bach and the Gospel of John
Location: House of the Academy
Co-sponsored by the Institute for Sacred Music at Yale University
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Margot E. Fassler, Robert S Tangeman Professor of Music History and Director, Institute of Sacred Music, Yale University
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Ian Howell, countertenor
Abigail Haynes, soprano
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Monday, December 3, 2007 - Audio available. Click here.
Stated Meeting - New York
Sustainable Cities
Location: Hearst Tower
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Welcome:
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Frank A. Bennack, Jr., Vice Chairman and Chairman of the Executive Committee, Hearst Corporation
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Speakers:
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Joel E. Cohen, Rockefeller and Columbia Universities
Daniel L. Doctoroff, Deputy Mayor for Economic Development and Rebuilding, New York City
Martin Filler, architecture critic |
Tuesday, November 29, 2007
Book Hour - Cambridge
A Second Opinion: Rescuing America’s Health Care
Location: House of the Academy
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Arnold S. Relman, M.D., Professor Emeritus of Medicine and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Former Editor-in-Chief, New England Journal of Medicine
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Tuesday, November 20, 2007 - Audio available Click here.
Stated Meeting - Berkeley
The World's Energy Problem and What We Can Do About It
Location: University of California, Berkeley
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Welcome:
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Robert Birgeneau, Chancellor, University of California, Berkeley
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Speaker:
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Steven Chu, Director, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
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Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Stated Meeting - Cambridge
Harvard University's New Allston Campus
Location: House of the Academy
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Moderator: |
Robert Campbell, architect and architecture critic,
The Boston Globe
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Speakers:
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Stefan Behnisch, principal, Behnisch Architekten
Christopher Gordon, Chief Operating Officer, Allston Development Group, Harvard University
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Saturday, November 10, 2007 - Audio available. Click here.
Stated Meeting - Chicago
The Disappearance of Species
Location: Field Museum of Chicago
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Welcome:
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John W. McCarter, Jr., President and CEO, Field Museum
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Speakers:
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May Berenbaum, Professor of Entomology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Neil L. Shubin, Provost of Academic Affairs, Field Museum; Associate Dean of Organismal and Evolutionary Biology, University of Chicago
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Monday, October 15, 2007 - Audio available. Click here.
Stated Meeting - Stanford
Nuclear Power Without Nuclear Proliferation?
Location: Stanford University
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Welcome:
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John Hennessy, President, Stanford University
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Moderator:
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Scott Sagan, Co-Director, Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University
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Alexei Arbatov, Program Co-Chair for Non-Proliferation, Carnegie Moscow Center
Thomas H. Isaacs, Director, Office of Policy, Planning, and Special Studies, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
William Perry, Michael & Barbara Berberian Professor and Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University
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Sunday, October 7, 2007 - Audio available. Click here.
Stated Meeting - Cambridge
Energy and Climate Change
Location: House of the Academy
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Moderator:
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Richard Meserve, President, Carnegie Institution; former Chairman, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
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Speakers:
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Rosina Bierbaum, Dean, School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan
William Reilly, President and CEO, Aqua International Partners LP; former Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency
Richard Revesz, Dean and Lawrence King Professor of Law, New York University
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Saturday, October 6, 2007 - Audio available. Click here.
227th Induction Ceremony - Cambridge
Location: Sanders Theatre, Harvard University
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Bonnie Bassler, Squibb Professor of Molecular Biology, Princeton University
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Rodney Brooks, Panasonic Professor of Robotics, MIT; Founder and Chief Technology Officer, iRobot Corp. |
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Christopher Edley, Jr., Dean, Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California , Berkeley
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Jessye Norman, opera singer and solo recitalist |
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Billie Tsien, architect; William Henry Bishop Visiting Professor, Yale School of Architecture |
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Robert Zimmer, President, University of Chicago.
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Monday, May 14, 2007
Campus Meeting - University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Debt and Metaphor
Location: University of Michigan
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Host:
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Mary Sue Coleman, President, University of Michigan
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Teresa Sullivan, Provost, Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, and Professor of Sociology, University of Michigan
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Wednesday, May 9, 2007
Spring Concert and Annual Meeting - Cambridge
An Evening of Chamber Music
Location: House of the Academy
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Performers:
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Abraham Appleman, violin; Edward Arron, cello; Ronald Arron, viola; Jeewon Park, piano
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Monday, May 7, 2007
Stated Meeting - Chicago
Location: Northwestern Univeristy
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Introduction:
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Henry S. Bienen, President, Northwestern University
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Speakers:
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Darlene Clark Hine, Board of Trustees Professor of African American Studies and Professor of History, Northwestern University |
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J. Larry Jameson, Irving S. Cutter Professor of Medicine and Incoming Vice President for Medical Affairs and Dean of the Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University
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Barbara Newman, Professor of English, Religion, and Classics and John Evans Professor of Latin Language and Literature, Northwestern University
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Friday - Sunday, April 27 - 29, 2007 - Audio available. Click here.
Joint Meeting of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and the American Philosophical Society in collaboration with the National Academy of Sciences and the Library of Congress.
THE PUBLIC GOOD:
Knowledge as the Foundation of a Democratic Society.
Location: Washington, DC
This meeting included multiple speakers and panels. To view the program and download audio, click here. Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Meeting - New York
Presentation on the Academy's Universal Education Project at the Foreign Policy Association
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Speaker:
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Joel Cohen, Head of Laboratory of Populations, Rockefeller University & Columbia University
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Tuesday, March 27, 2007
Stated Meeting and Joint Meeting with the Boston Athenaeum - Cambridge
An Evening with Galway Kinnell
Location: House of the Academy
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Introduction:
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Rosanna Warren, Emma MacLachlan Metcalf Professor of the Humanities, Boston University
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Speaker:
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Galway Kinnell, poet
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Wednesday, March 14, 2007
Stated Meeting - Cambridge
Education in the Developing World
Location: House of the Academy
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Speakers:
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David E. Bloom, Professor of Economics and Demography and chairman of the Department of Population and International Health at the Harvard School of Public Health
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Michael Kremer, Gates Professor of Developing Societies, Harvard University |
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Gene B. Sperling, Council on Foreign Relations
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Monday, February 26, 2007 - Audio available. Click here.
Stated Meeting - Stanford
Stem Cells: Politics and Promise
Location: Stanford University
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Introduction:
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John Hennessy, President, Stanford University
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Speaker:
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Irving Weissman, Virginia and D.K. Ludwig Professor for Clinical Investigation in Cancer Research; Director, Comprehensive Cancer Center; Director, Institute of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine; Stanford University School of Medicine
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Wednesday, February 7, 2007
Stated Meeting - Cambridge
Stem Cell Challenges in Biology and Public Policy
Location: House of the Academy
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Introduction:
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Harvey F. Lodish, Professor of Biology & Bioengineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Speaker:
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Douglas Melton, Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences, Harvard University
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Friday, February 2, 2007
Symposium in collaboration with Harvard University and the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Is There Science Underlying Truth Detection?
Location: House of the Academy
Panel One: The Science and Imaging of Deception
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Moderator:
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Emilio Bizzi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Presenters:
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Elizabeth Phelps, New York University
Marcus E. Raichle, Washington University School of Medicine
Nancy Kanwisher, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Panel Two: The Legal, Ethical, and Privacy Implications of Imaging
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Moderator:
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Steven Hyman, Harvard University
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Presenters:
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Henry Greely, Stanford Law School
Stephen Morse, University of Pennsylvania
Jed Rakoff, United States District Court, District of New York
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Dartmouth College
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