Center for Science and Democracy Launch Events
EAST COAST
Science and Democracy in Turmoil: Restoring a Great American Relationship
Thursday, May 17, 2012, 4:00-7:00pm EDT
Norton's Woods Conference Center at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Somerville, MA
Video of May 17 event webcast
Steve Curwood. Photo: loe.org
Welcoming remarks by Leslie Berlowitz, president, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
MODERATOR:
Steve Curwood, host of National Public Radio's Living on Earth
GUESTS:
Lawrence S. Bacow, president emeritus, Tufts University
Jessica T. Mathews, president, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Harold Varmus, Nobel laureate and director, National Cancer Institute
Honoring Lewis S. Branscomb, Aetna Professor of Public Policy and Corporate Management (emeritus), John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
WEST COAST
Laboratories of Democracy: Science as a Catalyst for Change
Wednesday, June 13, 2012, 4:00-7:00pm PDT
Robert Paine Scripps Forum for Science, Society, and the Environment, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA
Video of June 13 event webcast
K.C. Cole. Photo: kccole.net
MODERATOR:
K.C. Cole, longtime Los Angeles Times science writer and professor at USC's Annenberg School of Journalism
GUESTS:
David Baltimore, Nobel laureate and president emeritus of the California Institute of Technology
Mary D. Nichols, chair, California Air Resources Board
Naomi Oreskes, professor of history and science studies, University of California at San Diego
John E. Porter, former congressman (R-Ill.) and current chair, Research!America
