We have completed our program year and are now planning our next series of events, which will start in the fall. Please check back soon for an updated schedule.
Saturday, May 9, 2009 | 8:00 AM - 6:30 PM
Keynote Speakers: Edward O. Wilson, The Honorable John Porter, and Dean Kamen
On the 50th anniversary of C.P. Snow's famous Rede Lecture on the importance of bridging the sciences and humanities, this day-long symposium brings together leading scholars, scientists, politicians, authors, and media representatives to explore the persistence of the Two Cultures gap and how it can be overcome.
Thursday, May 7, 2009 | 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Speakers: Paul Cramer (Accenture) and Stephen Cramer (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and UC Davis)
Paul Cramer and his brother Dr. Stephen Cramer, share insights into the nature of negotiation and it application to our lives as scientists and professionals.
Monday, May 4, 2009 | 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Join the NYU School of Continuing & Professional Studies, and the Office of the Dean of Sciences at NYU, as a panel of experts on the brain and cinema draw an interdisciplinary connection between film and neuroscience.
Friday, April 3, 2009 | 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Speaker: Jayne Raper (NYU School of Medicine)
Join us for a lesson on financial management for scientists, as researchers discuss best practices for balancing a lab's books, and offer sage advice for new budget-makers.
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Annals
Edited by Scott Atran (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan), Arcadi Navarro (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain), Kevin Ochsner (Columbia University, New York), Adolf Tobeña (Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain), and Oscar Vilarroya (University of Barcelona, Spain)
Through a neuroscientific lens, this Annals volume examines the human qualities of empathy, sacred values, and cooperation, and focuses on ways in which this approach can help explain human conflicts.
Annals
Edited by Nicholas D. Schiff (Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York) and Steven Laureys (University of Liege, Belgium)
Published in cooperation with the Association for Research on Nervous and Mental Disorders, this volume brings together basic neuroscientists and investigators who focus on neuroimaging studies of patients in different clinical settings with disorders of consciousness.
eBriefing
Keynote speaker: Navanethem Pillay (UN High Commissioner for Human Rights)
Researchers, advocates, and the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights met at the Academy to evaluate progress on the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Annals
Edited by Stephen G. Kaler and Owen M. Rennert (National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland)
Diverse elements contribute to poverty in the United States and elsewhere in the world. This volume provides a look at this problem from the perspectives of many disciplines.
Annals
Edited by Richard S. Ostfeld and William H. Schlesinger (Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, New York)
The inaugural volume for an annual review serving ecology and conservation biology, offering in-depth scholarly reviews in the field.
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