• WikiLeaks and the First Amendment
  Northwestern University School of Law, Chicago, IL, November 12, 2011
  INTRODUCTION: Geoffrey R. Stone, Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago Law School
  REMARKS: Judith Miller, Journalist; formerly of The New York Times Richard Posner, Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Gabriel Schoenfeld, Senior Fellow (on leave), Hudson Institute; Resident Scholar (on leave), Witherspoon Institute
  
• The Future of the Military
  Stanford University, November , 2011
  INTRODUCTION: John Hennessy, President, Stanford University
  SPEAKERS: David M. Kennedy, Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History, Emeritus, Stanford University. William J. Perry, Michael and Barbara Berberian Professor; Codirector of the Preventive Defense Project; Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University. James Sheehan, Dickason Professor in the Humanities; Professor of Modern European History, Emeritus, Stanford University. Karl Eikenberry, Payne Distinguished Lecturer, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University
  
• Talcott Parsons Prize Ceremony and Address: Two Systems in the Mind
  House of the Academy, Cambridge, MA, November 9, 2011
  REMARKS: Daniel Kahneman, 2011 American Academy Talcott Parsons Prize Winner; Senior Scholar; Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology, Emeritus; Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs, Emeritus, Princeton University
  PRESENTATION OF THE TALCOTT PARSONS PRIZE: William Julius Wilson, Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor, Harvard University
  
• Briefing on New Models for Internet Privacy and Security.
  Rayburn House Office Building, Washington D.C., November 02, 2011
  PANEL DISCUSSION: David D. Clark Senior Research Scientist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Vinton G. Cerf Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist Google Inc. Helen Nissenbaum Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication, Senior Fellow, Information Law Institute, New York University. Deirdre K. Mulligan Assistant Professor, School of Information Faculty Director of the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology, University of California, Berkeley.
• Prospects and Challenges for the Global Nuclear Future: After Fukushima
  Stanford University, Tuesday, October 25, 2011
  PANEL DISCUSSION: Leslie Cohen Berlowitz President and William T. Golden Chair, American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Scott D. Sagan Caroline S.G. Munro Professor of Political Science, Stanford University. Noramly bin Muslim Professor Emeritus, National University of Malaysia. Jayantha Dhanapala President, Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs. Olli Heinonen Senior Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University. Harald Müller Director, Peace Research Institute Frankfurt.
• Induction Weekend in Cambridge
  Saturday, October 1, 2011
  2011 Induction Ceremony – Cambridge
  Sunday, October 2, 2011
  American Institutions and a Civil Society – Symposium – Cambridge
• Prospects and Challenges for the Global Nuclear Future: After Fukushima
  University of Chicago, June 8, 2011
  PANEL DISCUSSION: Robert Rosner, (moderator) William E. Wrather Distinguished Service Professor, Departments of Astronomy and Astrophysics and Physics University of Chicago; Robert L. Gallucci, President, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation; Amir Shahkarami, Chief Executive Officer, Exelon Nuclear Partners and Nuclear Development; Senior Vice President, Exelon Generation, LLC; Mark Peters, Deputy Director for Programs, Argonne National Laboratory; Steven E. Miller, Director, International Security Program, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University
• Making America More Competitive, Innovative, and Healthy (video and audio)
  House of the Academy, Cambridge, MA, April 14, 2011
  SPEAKERS: Charles M. Vest, National Academy of Engineering; Cherry A. Murray, Dean, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University; Harvey V. Fineberg, President, Institute of Medicine
• Breaking the Code: Panel Disucssion of Alan Turing's Professional and Personal Life
  House of the Academy, Cambridge, MA, March 15, 2011
  INTRODUCTION: Alan Lightman, Adjunct Professor of Humanities, Creative Writing, and Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  SPEAKERS: Laurence Senelick, Fletcher Professor of Drama and Oratory and Director of Graduate Studies, Tufts University; Ronald L. Rivest, Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Shafi Goldwasser, RSA Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Silvio Micali, Ford Professor of Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Workshop on Social Science and the Alternative Energy Future (multimedia presentations)
  The George Washington University, Washington, D.C., May 19-20, 2011
  WELCOME: Steven Knapp, President, The George Washington University
  INTRODUCTORY REMARKS: Leslie C. Berlowitz, President, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONS: Steven E. Koonin, Under Secretary for Science, U.S. Department of Energy; Myron Gutmann, Assistant Director for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences, National Science Foundation; Nicholas Donofrio, Senior Fellow, Kauffman Foundation; former Executive Vice President of Innovation and Technology, IBM
  WORKSHOP OVERVIEW: Robert Fri, Visiting Scholar Resources for the Future
  
• Race in the Age of Obama
  Washington University in St. Louis, February 25, 2011
  WELCOME and CALL TO ORDER: Gary Wihl, Dean of the Faculty of Arts & Sciences, Washington University; Leslie Cohen Berlowitz, President, American Academy of Arts & Sciences
  INTRODUCTION: Gerald Early, Merle Kling Professor of Modern Letters, Director of the Center for the Humanities, Washington University in St. Louis
  SPEAKERS: Jeffrey B. Ferguson, Andrew W. Mellon Associate Professor of Black Studies and American Studies, Amherst College; Korina Jocson, Assistant Professor of Education, Washington University in St. Louis; David A. Hollinger, Preston Hotchkis Professor of American History, University of California, Berkeley
• The Future of Power
  House of the Academy, Cambridge, MA, February 16, 2011
  WELCOME: Leslie Cohen Berlowitz, President, American Academy of Arts & Sciences
  INTRODUCTION: Jack Landman Goldsmith, Henry L. Shattuck Professor of Law Harvard Law School
  SPEAKER: Joseph S. Nye, Jr., University Distinguished Service Professor, Harvard University
• The Future of Our Research Universities
  Stanford University, January 5, 2011
  WELCOME: Leslie Cohen Berlowitz, President, American Academy of Arts & Sciences
  INTRODUCTION: Paul Brest, President, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
  SPEAKER: John L. Hennessy, President, Stanford University
• The University and the City
  New York University, December 8, 2010
  WELCOME: Leslie Cohen Berlowitz, President, American Academy of Arts & Sciences
  MODERATOR: John Sexton, President, New York University
  SPEAKERS: Robert M. Berdahl, President, Association of American Universities. Jared L. Cohon, President, Carnegie Mellon University. Ruth J. Simmons, President, Brown University.
• The Financial Crisis & Economic Policy (video/audio)
  New York, NY, October 20, 2010
  INTRODUCTION: James H. Simons, President, Euclidean Capital; Board Chair, Renaissance Technologies LLC
  PRESENTATIONS: Benjamin M. Friedman, William Joseph Maier Professor of Political Economy, Harvard University. Robert M. Solow, Institute Professor Emeritus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
  COMMENT: Paul A. Volcker, Chairman President’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board.
• 2010 INDUCTION WEEKEND - 230th INDUCTION CEREMONY
  Friday Welcome | Saturday Ceremony | Sunday Symposium
  Cambridge, MA, October 8–10, 2010
  Celebrating the Arts & the Humanities
  WELCOME: Leslie Cohen Berlowitz, President, American Academy
  MASTER OF CEREMONIES: Gerald L. Early, Cochair of the Council, American Academy
  READING OF LETTERS OF JOHN & ABIGAIL ADAMS: John A. Lithgow, Actor, Author, and Recording Artist and Mary A. Yeager, University of California, Los Angeles with Introduction by Gerald L. Early
  DISCUSSION OF HOWARD NEMEROV'S POEM "THE BLUE SWALLOWS:" Denis Donoghue, New York University with Introduction by Gerald L. Early
  2010 Induction Ceremony
  WELCOME: Louis W. Cabot, Chair of the Board & Trust, American Academy
  GREETINGS: Leslie Cohen Berlowitz
  READING OF HISTORICAL LETTERS: Liev Schreiber, Actor, Director, and Screenwriter with Introduction by Jerrold Meinwald, Secretary of the Academy
  TALK ON THE NEED FOR IMPROVED SCIENTIFIC LITERACY: Wayne Clough, Smithsonian Institution with Introduction by Arthur Gelb Four Sigma Corporation
  TALK ON TRANSLATING SCIENTIFIC BREAKTHROUGHS FOR CLINICAL GAIN: Susan Desmond-Hellmann, University of California, San Francisco with Introduction by Randy W. Schekman, University of California, Berkeley
  TALK ON SHARED INTELLIGENCE: Robert Gallucci, President, MacArthur Foundation with Introduction by Diane P. Wood, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
  TALK ON A LOOMING CRISIS IN THE HUMANITIES: Jim Leach, National Endowment for the Humanities with Introduction by Gerald L. Early, Washington University in St. Louis Talk on How Business Should Serve Society, Roger Ferguson, TIAA-CREF with Introduction by Gerald Rosenfeld, Rothschild North America
  Technology and the Public Good
  "A FREE PRESS FOR A GLOBAL SOCIETY:" Lee Bollinger, Columbia University with Introduction by Neal Lane, Rice University
  "TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE:" Paul Sagan, Akamai Technologies; Robert Darnton, Harvard University Library; David Ferriero, Archivist of the United States; and Marjorie Scardino, Pearson PLC with Introduction by Neal Lane
  "CYBERSECURITY AND THE CLOUD:" Tom Leighton, MIT and Akamai Technologies; Vinton Cerf, Google Inc.; Richard Hale, .S. Department of Defense; and Raymond Ozzie, Microsoft Corporation with Introduction by Neal Lane
  
  
• Because It Is Wrong: Torture, Privacy and Presidential Power in the Age of Terror
  Cambridge, MA, September 27, 2010
  INTRODUCTION: Paul Brest, President, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
  SPEAKERS: Charles Fried, Beneficial Professor of Law, Harvard Law School; Gregory Fried, Professor and Chair, Department of Philosophy, Suffolk University
• The Great American University (video/audio)
  Boston, MA September 16, 2010
  WELCOME and INTRODUCTION: Robert A. Brown, President, Boston University; Leslie Berlowitz, President and William T. Golden Chair, American Academy of Arts & Sciences
  SPEAKER: Jonathan R. Cole, John Mitchell Mason Professor of the University; Provost and Dean of the Faculties, Emeritus, Columbia University
• The Challenges of Mass Incarceration in America
  New York, NY, August 19, 2010
  WELCOME: Leslie Berlowitz, Chief Executive Officer and William T. Golden Chair, American Academy of Arts & Sciences
  SPEAKERS: Bruce Western, Professor of Sociology, Harvard University; Director of the Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality and Social Policy, Harvard Kennedy School. Glenn C. Loury, Merton P. Stoltz Professor of the Social Sciences and Professor of Economics, Brown University. Dora Schriro, Commissioner of the New York City Department of Correction.
• Scientists' Understanding of the Public
  Washington, D.C., June 29, 2010
  WELCOME: Alan Leshner, Chief Executive Officer, American Association for the Advancement of Science
  SPEAKERS: Robert Fri, Visiting Scholar and Senior Fellow Emeritus, Resources for the Future. Chris Mooney, Science and Political Journalist
• Advances in Brain Science: Implications for Therapy
  Cambridge, MA, May 12, 2010
  INTRODUCTION/MODERATOR: Emilio Bizzi, Institute Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Investigator, McGovern Institute for Brain Research
  SPEAKERS: Edward Scolnick, Director, Psychiatric Disease Program and the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute. Robert Desimone, McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Founders Day: Reflections on the Founding Period
  Cambridge, MA, May 4, 2010
  INTRODUCTION: Gordon S. Wood, Alva O. Way University Professor and Professor of History Emeritus, Brown University
  SPEAKER: Jack N. Rakove, William Robertson Coe Professor of History and American Studies and Professor of Political Science, Stanford University
• The Supreme Court and Race (video/audio)
  Cambridge, MA, March 10, 2010
  WELCOME: Lawrence Bobo, W.E.B Du Bois Professor of Social Sciences, Harvard University
  INTRODUCTION: Randall Kennedy, Michael R. Klein Professor of Law, Harvard University
  SPEAKER: Michael Klarman, Kirkland and Ellis Professor of Law, Harvard University
• The Global Nuclear Future
  Chicago, February 8, 2010
  SPEAKERS: Steven Miller, Director, International Security Program, Harvard Kennedy School. Robert Rosner, Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Professor of Physics, University of Chicago. Scott Sagan, Professor of Political Science and Co-director, Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University
• A Conversation on Evolving U.S. Policy toward Russia
  Cambridge, MA, January 28, 2010
  SPEAKERS: Robert Legvold, Marshall D. Shulman Professor Emeritus, Columbia University. Thomas Graham, former Senior Director for Russia, National Security Council
• Challenges to Business and Society in the 21st Century: The Way Forward (video)
  New York City, November 30, 2009
  SPEAKERS: Rajat K. Gupta, Senior Partner Emeritus, McKinsey & Company. Roger Ferguson, Jr., President and Chief Executive Officer, TIAA-CREF
• The Education of an American Dreamer
  Cambridge, MA, November 11, 2009
  INTRODUCTION: Peter Nicholas, Co-Founder and Chairman of the Board Boston Scientific Corporation
  SPEAKER: Peter G. Peterson, Co-Founder and Chairman Emeritus The Blackstone Group; Founder and Chairman Peter G. Peterson Foundation
• Science, Energy, and the Environment
  Cambridge, MA, October 11, 2009
  Harvey Brooks Lecture: Science and Technology Policy Challenges and Opportunities for the Obama Administration
  INTRODUCTION: Neal Lane, Malcolm Gillis University Professor, Rice University
  SPEAKER: John P. Holdren, Director, Office of Science & Technology Policy, Executive Office of the President of the United States.
  On the Future of Energy
  MODERATOR: Richard A. Meserve, President, Carnegie Institution for Science
  SPEAKERS: Steven E. Koonin, Under Secretary for Science, United States Department of Energy. John W. Rowe, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Exelon Corporation. Paul L. Joskow, President, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics and Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. John Doerr, Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
• 229th Induction Ceremony
  Cambridge, MA, October 10, 2009
  SPEAKERS: James Earl Jones, Emmy and Tony Award-winning Actor and Kennedy Center Honoree. Emmylou Harris, Grammy Award-winning Singer-Songwriter and Musician and Member of the Country Music Hall of Fame. Terence Tao, Professor of Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles. Introduction by Arthur Gelb, President, Four Sigma Corporation. Elizabeth G. Nabel, Director, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health. Introduction by Gordon Gill, Dean of Science and Professor of Medicine and Cellular & Molecular Medicine, University of California, San Diego School of Medicine. Ronald Marc George, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of California. Introduction by Linda Greenhouse, Knight Distinguished Journalist in Residence and Joseph Goldstein Lecturer in Law, Yale Law School. Edward Villella, Founding Artistic Director and Chief Executive Officer, Miami City Ballet. Introduction by Carol Gluck, George Sansom Professor of History, Columbia University. Kent Kresa, Chairman Emeritus, Northrop Grumman Corporation. Introduction by Alan M. Dachs, President and Chief Executive Officer, Fremont Group
• A New Literary History of America
  Cambridge, MA, September 24, 2009
  INTRODUCTION: Emilio Bizzi, President American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
  SPEAKERS: Werner Sollors, Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of English Literature; Professor of African and African American Studies, Harvard University. Greil Marcus, Author of Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century; The Old,Weird America: TheWorld of Bob Dylan’s Basement Tapes; and The Shape of Things to Come: Prophecy and the American Voice
  
• The Challenges of Mass Incarceration
  Stanford, CA, September 17, 2009
  WELCOME: Larry Kramer, Richard E. Lang Professor of Law and Dean, Stanford Law School. PRESENTERS: Nicola Lacey, Professor of Criminal Law and Legal Theory, London School of Economics. Glenn Loury, Merton P. Stoltz Professor of the Social Sciences; Professor of Economics, Brown University. Joan Petersilia, Professor of Law. Stanford Law School. Robert Weisberg, Edwin E. Huddleson, Jr. Professor of Law, Stanford Law School. Bruce Western, Professor of Sociology, Harvard University
  
• Space Policy Briefing
  Washington, D.C., July 30, 2009
  OVERVIEW: John D. Steinbruner, Project Director, Reconsidering the Rules of Space, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Professor of Public Policy and Director of the Center for International Security Studies, University of Maryland. REMARKS:Robie I. Samanta Roy, Assistant Director for Space and Aeronautics, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. PRESENTATIONS: Nancy Gallagher, Associate Director of Research, Center for International and Security Studies, University of Maryland. Jeffrey G. Lewis, Director, Nuclear Strategy and Nonproliferation Initiative, New America Foundation. Neal Lane, Malcolm Gillis University Professor and Senior Fellow, James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, Rice University. George Abbey, Baker Botts Senior Fellow in Space Policy, James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, Rice University
  
• What is Missing in Medical Thinking?
  Cambridge, MA, May 13, 2009
  SPEAKER: Jerome E. Groopman, Dina and Raphael Recanati Chair of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Chief of Experimental Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
  
• The Public Good: Humanities in a Civil Society (video/audio)
  Washington, DC, March 9, 2009
  SPEAKERS: Don Michael Randel, President, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; David Souter, Associate Justice, United States Supreme Court; Patricia Q. Stonesifer, Chair, Smithsonian Institution Board of Regents; Senior Adviser to the Trustees of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; Edward L. Ayers, President, University of Richmond
  
• The Public Good: The Impact of Information Technology on Society (video/audio)
  Google, Microsoft, and Computer History Museum, Mountian View, CA, February 28 - March 1, 2009
  PARTIAL LIST OF SPEAKERS: C. Gordon Bell, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research; Jonathan Berger, Composer, Associate Professor, and Co-Director of the Institute for Creativity and the Arts, Stanford University; Henry Brady, Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley; Vinton Cerf, Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist, Google Inc.; David Clark, Senior Research Scientist, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory; Joshua Cohen, Professor of Philosophy, Law and Political Science, Stanford University; Dale Dougherty, Editor and Publisher, Make Magazine, O’Reilly Media Inc.; Cynthia Dwork, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research; Edward Feigenbaum, Kumagai Professor in the School of Engineering, Emeritus, Stanford University; Edward Felten, Professor of Computer Science and Public Affairs, Princeton University; Charles Geschke, Co-chairman of the Board, Adobe Systems Inc.; Pat Hanrahan, Canon USA Professor, Computer Graphics Laboratory, Stanford University; John Hennessy, President, Stanford University; John Hollar, President and CEO, Computer History Museum; Irwin M. Jacobs, Chairman, Co-Founder, and Former CEO, Qualcomm Inc.; Michael A. Keller, Ida M. Green University Librarian and Director of Academic Information Resources, Stanford University; Butler Lampson, Technical Fellow, Microsoft Inc.; Edward Lazowska, Bill & Melinda Gates Chair in Computer Science, and Engineering, University of Washington; Donald A.B. Lindberg, Director, National Library of Medicine; Carl Rosendahl, founder and former President, Pacific Data Images; Hal Varian, Chief Economist, Google Inc.; John E. Warnock, Co-Chairman of the Board and former President and Chief Executive Officer, Adobe Systems; Jonathan Zittrain, Professor of Law and Co-Founder of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard Law School
  
• After the 2008 Elections: How Will They Govern?
  Cambridge, MA, January 14, 2009
  MODERATOR: David T. Ellwood, Scott Black Professor of Political Economy and Dean, Harvard Kennedy School. SPEAKERS: Thomas E. Mann, W. Averell Harriman Chair and Senior Fellow in Governance Studies, Brookings Institution. Norman J. Ornstein, Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
• Challenges to Public Universities
  Berkeley, CA, December 2, 2008
  SPEAKERS: Robert Birgeneau, Chancellor, University of California, Berkeley. Mark G. Yudof, President, University of California System. Christopher F. Edley, Jr., The Honorable William H. Orrick, Jr. Distinguished Chair and Dean, UC Berkeley School of Law
• The Election and its Consequences
  Stanford, CA, December 1, 2008
  MODERATOR: John Hennessy, President, Stanford University. SPEAKERS: David Brady, Bowen H. and Janice Arthur McCoy Professor of Political Science and Leadership Values; Senior Fellow and Deputy Director, Hoover Institution, Stanford University. Pamela Karlan, Kenneth and Harle Montgomery Professor of Public Interest Law, Stanford University
• The Invisible Constitution and the Rule of Law
  Chicago, IL, November 8, 2008
  SPEAKERS: Laurence H. Tribe, Carl M. Loeb University Professor, Harvard Law School. Frank H. Easterbrook, Chief Judge, United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit. Geoffrey R. Stone, Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago Law School
• Judicial Independence
  New York City, November 6, 2008
  CALL TO ORDER: Richard L. Revesz, Dean and Lawrence King Professor of Law, New York University School of Law. WELCOME: Martin Lipton, Chairman, Board of Trustees, New York University. INTRODUCTION: John Sexton, President, New York University. REMARKS: Sandra Day O'Connor, Associate Justice, retired, Supreme Court of the United States. PANEL DISCUSSION: Linda Greenhouse, Knight Distinguished Journalist in Residence and Joseph M. Goldstein Senior Fellow in Law (January 2009), Yale Law School; Former Supreme Court Correspondent, The New York Times. Judith Resnik, Arthur Liman Professor of Law, Yale Law School. Bert Brandenburg, Associate Justice, retired, Supreme Court of the United States. Viet D. Dinh, Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center. COMMENTS: Sandra Day O'Connor, Associate Justice, retired, Supreme Court of the United States. Adjournment: Leslie Berlowitz, Chief Executive Officer and William T. Golden Chair, American Academy of Arts & Sciences
• The Nuclear Future
  Cambridge, MA, October 12, 2008
  PANEL I
  MODERATOR: Richard A. Meserve, President, Carnegie Institution for Science. SPEAKERS: Robert Rosner, President, UChicago Argonne, LLC; Director, Argonne National Laboratory. William E. Wrather, Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago. Richard Lester, Director, Industrial Performance Center and Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Scott D. Sagan, Professor of Political Science and Codirector, Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University. Steven E. Miller, Director, International Security Program, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School
  PRESENTATION OF THE RUMFORD PRIZE
  --About the Rumford Prize: Louis W. Cabot, Chair of the Academy Trust and Vice President of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Leslie Berlowitz, Chief Executive Officer and William T. Golden Chair, American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
  --Presentation of the Rumford Prize: To Sidney D. Drell, Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University; Professor of Theoretical Physics Emeritus and Deputy Director Emeritus, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center presented by Walter B. Hewlett, Chair of The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and Emilio Bizzi, President of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. To William J. Perry, Michael and Barbara Berberian Professor, Stanford University; Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University presented by Walter B. Hewlett and Emilio Bizzi. To Sam Nunn, Cochairman and Chief Executive Officer, Nuclear Threat Initiative presented by Stephen D. Bechtel, Jr., Chairman Emeritus and Director of Bechtel Group, Inc., and Leslie Berlowitz. To George P. Shultz, Thomas W. and Susan B. Ford Distinguished Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University presented by Stephen D. Bechtel, Jr. and Leslie Berlowitz.
  PANEL II
  MODERATOR: Richard A. Meserve, President, Carnegie Institution for Science. SPEAKERS: Sidney D. Drell, Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University; Professor of Theoretical Physics Emeritus and Deputy Director Emeritus, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. William J. Perry, Michael and Barbara Berberian Professor, Stanford University; Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University. Sam Nunn, Cochairman and Chief Executive Officer, Nuclear Threat Initiative. George P. Shultz, Thomas W. and Susan B. Ford Distinguished Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University.
• 228th Induction Ceremony
  House of the Academy, Cambridge, MA, October 11, 2008
  SPEAKERS: James Harris Simons, President and Founder, Renaissance Technologies introduced by Arthur Gelb, President of Four Sigma Corporation. Peter S. Kim, President, Merck Research Laboratories introduced by David D. Sabatini, Frederick L. Ehrman Professor and Chairman of the Department of Cell Biology at the New York University School of Medicine. Susan C. Athey, Professor of Economics, Harvard University introduced by Eric J. Sundquist, UCLA Foundation Professor. Earl Lewis, Provost Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, Asa Griggs Candler Professor of History and African American Studies, Emory University introduced by Carol Cluck, George Sansom Professor of History. Indra K. Nooyi, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, PepsiCo introduced by Gerald Rosenfeld, Deputy Chairman of Rothschild North America, Clinical Professor of Business, Leonard N. Stern School of Business New York University.
• ARISE Press Briefing at the National Press Club
  Washington DC, Tuesday, June 3, 2008
  SPEAKERS: Thomas R. Cech (Chair, ARISE report), President, Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Neal Lane, Malcolm Gillis University Professor, Rice University. Keith Yamamoto, Executive Vice Dean, Professor of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine.
• Science Results from the Mars Exploration Rover Mission
  House of the Academy, Cambridge, MA, Wednesday, April 9, 2008
  INTRODUCTION: Claude Canizares, Bruno Rossi Professor of Physics, Vice President for Research, and Associate Provost, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Steven W. Squyres, Goldwin Smith Professor of Astronomy, Cornell University.
• The Research Library in the Information Age
  House of the Academy, Cambridge, MA, March 13, 2008
  INTRODUCTION: Bernard Bailyn, Adams University Professor, emeritus, Harvard University. Speaker: Robert Darnton, Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor, Harvard University, Director of the Harvard University Library.
• The Art and Science of Conservation
  Getty Villa in Malibu, Pacific Palisades, California, February 23, 2008
  WELCOME: James Wood, President and Chief Exectutive Officer, J. Paul Getty Trust. SPEAKERS: Jerry Podany, Principal, Machado and Silvetti Associates. Jorge Silvetti, Principal of the architectural firm Machado and Silvetti Associates. Robert Campbell, architect and writes of The Boston Globe.
• Science, Policy, and the Media
  House of the Academy, Cambridge, MA, February 13, 2008
  INTRODUCTION: Emilio Bizzi, Institute Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Speaker: Donald Kennedy, Editor-in-Chief, Science magazine, President Emeritus, Stanford University.
• Sustainable Cities
  Hearst Tower, New York, December 3, 2007
  INTRODUCTION: Leslie Berlowitz, Chief Executive Officer, American Academy of Arts and Sciences. SPEAKERS: Joel E. Cohen, Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of Populations, Rockefeller University, Professor of Populations, Columbia University. Daniel L. Doctoroff, Deputy Mayor for Economic Development and Rebuilding, City of New York. Martin Filler, The New York Review of Books, former architecture critic, House & Garden.
• The World's Energy Problem and What We Can Do About It
  University of California, Berkeley, November 20, 2007
  INTRODUCTION: Robert J. Birgeneau, Chancellor, University of California, Berkeley. Speaker: Steven Chu, Director, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Professor of Physics and Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley.
• The Disappearance of Species
  Field Museum of Chicago, November 10, 2007
  WELCOME: John W. McCarter, Jr., President and Chief Executive Officer, The Field Museum. INTRODUCTION: John Katzenellenbogen, Swanlund Professor of Chemistry, Affiliate of the Beckman Institute and Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. SPEAKERS: Neil H. Shubin, Provost of Academic Affairs, The Field Museum, Associate Dean of Organismal and Evolutionary Biology, Robert R. Bensley Professor. University of Chicago. May R. Berenbaum, Swanlund Professor of Entomology, head of the Department of Entomology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
• Nuclear Power Without Nuclear Proliferation?
  Stanford University, October 15, 2007
  INTRODUCTION: John Hennessy, President, Stanford University. SPEAKERS: Scott Sagan, Professor of Political Science, co-director, Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University. William J. Perry, Michael and Barbara Berberian Professor, Stanford University, Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution; Senor Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. Alexei Arbatov, Scholar-in-Residence, co-chair for non-proliferation, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace’s Moscow Center. Thomas Isaacs, Director of Policy, Planning, and Special Studies, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
• Energy and Climate Change
  House of the Academy, Cambridge, MA, October 7, 2007
  MODERATOR: Richard A. Meserve, President, Carnegie Institution of Washington; Former Chairman, Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Rosina M. Bierbaum, Dean & Professor of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan. William K. Reilly, President & CEO, Aqua International Partners, LP; Former Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency. Richard L. Revesz, Dean & Lawrence King Professor of Law, New York University School of Law.
• 227th Induction Ceremony
  Sanders Theatre, Harvard University, October 6, 2007
  Rodney Brooks, Panasonic Professor of Robotics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Chief Technology Officer, iRobot Corporation introduced by Arthur Gelb, President of Four Sigma Corporation. Bonnie Lynn Bassler, Squibb Professor of Molecular Biology, Princeton University; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute introduced by David D. Sabatini, Frederick L. Ehrman Professor and Chairman of the Department of Cell Biology at the New York University School of Medicine. Christopher F. Edley, Jr., Dean & Professor of Law, Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley introduced by Robert C. Post, David Boies Professor of Law, Yale Law School. Billie Tsien, Architect, Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects, LLP, New York, NY introduced by Eric J. Sundquist, UCLA Foundation Professor. Robert J. Zimmer, President, University of Chicago introduced by Gerald Rosenfeld, Deputy Chairman of Rothschild North America, Clinical Professor of Business, Leonard N. Stern School of Business New York University. Jessye Norman, Opera and Concert Artist, New York, NY introduced by Jerrold Meinwald, Goldwin Smith Professor of Chemistry, Cornell University.
• THE PUBLIC GOOD: Knowledge as the Foundation of a Democratic Society (audio)
  Washington, DC, Friday-Sunday, April 27-29, 2007
  "Convocation of the Academies"
  Keynote Address: Don Michael Randel, President, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
  "The Independence of the Courts"
  "Religion and the Enlightenment"
  "The United States and the Global Economy"
  "The Media and Society"
  "Celebrating Knowledge," Library of Congress 
  Keynote Address: E. L. Doctorow, Glucksman Professor of American and English Letters, New York University
  "Science, Health, and an Aging Society"
  "Energy Choices and Global Warming"
• Stem Cells: Politics and Promise
  Stanford University, February 26, 2007
  INTRODUCTION: John L. Hennessy, President, Stanford University. Speaker: Irving L. 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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