Nicholas B. Dirks
President and CEO
A widely respected and highly influential historian and anthropologist, and a prominent leader in higher education, in June 2020, Dirks assumed leadership of The New York Academy of Sciences as President and Chief Executive Officer. Founded in 1817, The New York Academy is among the oldest scientific organizations in the United States. The mission of the Academy is to drive innovative solutions to society’s challenges by advancing scientific research, education, and policy.
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Speaking Appearances
Opinion and Op-Ed Articles
Charting a course for science during Trump’s second term
The Hill
The University in Ruins
LinkedIn Pulse
Faculty-administrator distrust is making US universities ungovernable
Times Higher Education
The End of Disenchantment and the Future of the Humanities
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Ambivalence Over AI: We Are All Prometheus Now
Undark
Higher Education’s Donor Problem
TIME
Don’t let geopolitics get in the way of scientific cooperation with China
The Hill
Campus leaders shouldn’t be judged on their political pronouncements
Times Higher Education
Why we need to build an implicit trust in science
Khaleej Times
Podcasts & Conferences
Center for Brooklyn History | Embattled University
People & Science Live presented by Karger Publishers | Research Integrity and Scientific Publishing
El Podcast | E85: Former Berkeley Chancellor Nick Dirks on the Rising Costs and Uses & Abuses of the University
Nation Radio Podcast | Episode 24-18 (The International Science Reserve and AI)
The Politics Guys | The Uses and Abuses of the Modern University
unSILOed Podcast | The Delicate Balance of Teaching and Research in Modern Academia
Commonweal Magazine | What Are Universities For?
dotEDU | Beyond Berkeley: Lessons from a University Chancellor on the Front Lines
Chasing Leviathan | Free Speech, Controversy, and the University with Dr. Nicholas Dirks
The PhD Life Raft Podcast | The Changing Culture of the University with Nicholas B. Dirks
When Science Speaks | Applying Scientific Insights to Global Challenges, with Nicholas Dirks, Ph.D.
The ThoughtStretchers Education Podcast | Science, Truth, And Trust