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  • Bioethics

  • Events 

    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.
  • Past Events

    Saturday, May 9, 2009 | 8:00 AM - 6:30 PM

    The Two Cultures in the 21st Century

    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

    Your Best Offer: The Art of Negotiation

    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

    Neurocinematics! Where Neuroscience Meets Filmmaking

    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

    Managing Your Lab's Money

    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.

  • Publications 

    Annals

    Values, Empathy, and Fairness across Social Barriers

    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

    Disorders of Consciousness

    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

    The Work Ahead of Us: Public Health and Human Rights

    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

    Reducing the Impact of Poverty on Health and Human Development: Scientific Approaches

    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

    The Year in Ecology and Conservation Biology 2008

    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.