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Science, Society & Culture
September 23 - 25, 2010 | Neural prosthetic devices to replace motor, sensory, and cognitive function lost by disease or trauma hold great therapeutic promise but have been widely used in people. This conference will examine how to use neural prosthetics therapeutically. More
Arts administrators are always looking for new ways to survive and thrive under economic pressure. How are they doing in NYC? Read a report and see multimedia in the latest update in this eBriefing. More
Prepared by the New York City Panel on Climate Change, the report in this Annals volume outlines the need for early and ongoing adaptation actions to climate change in New York City. More
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Thursday, September 23, 2010 | 11:30 AM - 3:00 PM
Speaker: John Tanacredi (Dowling College)
The Lyceum Society is comprised of the Academy's retired and semi-retired members. Talks cover various scientific fields. All Academy members are welcome.
September 23 - 25, 2010
Keynote Speaker: Apostolos P. Georgopoulos (University of Minnesota Medical School)
Neural prosthetic devices to replace motor, sensory, and cognitive function lost by disease or trauma hold great therapeutic promise but have not been widely used in people. This conference will examine how to use neural prosthetics therapeutically.
Thursday, September 30, 2010 | 6:30 PM - 7:15 PM
The Board of Governors of The New York Academy of Sciences cordially invites members to the 192nd Annual Meeting.
Thursday, September 30, 2010 | 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Speakers: Norman Brouwer (Maritime Historian), Nichole Doub (Maryland Archaeological Conservation Laboratory Jefferson Patterson Park & Museum), and Michael Pappalardo (Senior Archaeologist, AKRF)
Presentations by three of the experts involved in the exciting excavation of the 18th century ship found 20 feet underground in Lower Manhattan this summer.
Thursday, October 21, 2010 | 11:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Speaker: Ralph Kaslick
The Lyceum Society is comprised of the Academy's retired and semi-retired members. Talks cover various scientific fields. All Academy members are welcome.
Thursday, January 21, 2010 | 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Speaker: Joel Kirman, CE
The Lyceum Society is comprised of the Academy's retired and semi-retired members. Talks cover various scientific fields. All Academy members are welcome.
Monday, December 7, 2009 | 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Speakers: Felice Frankel and George Whitesides (Harvard University)
Science & the City hosts renowned science photographer Felice Frankel and nanotechnology pioneer George Whitesides both of Harvard University, for an evening of astounding art and world-changing science at the launch of their coffee-table book No Small Matter, a book that reveals the virtually invisible realities of nanoscience.
Tuesday, November 3, 2009 | 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Speaker: Katayoun Chamany (Eugene Lang College, The New School for Liberal Arts)
Learn how to incorporate issues of social responsibility into the traditional biology curriculum to attract and maintain the interest of a diverse population of students.
Monday, October 19, 2009 | 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Science & the City presents an intimate evening with Richard Dawkins. In his new book he justifies his reputation as “Darwin’s Rottweiler” by laying out the evidence that evolution is an incontrovertible fact. The Greatest Show on Earth is a thrilling tour into our distant past and the interstices of life on earth.
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Annals
New York City Panel on Climate Change 2010 Report Free online access
Prepared by the New York City Panel on Climate Change, the report in this Annals volume outlines the need for early and ongoing adaptation actions to climate change in New York City.
Annals
Edited by Richard S. Ostfeld and William H. Schlesinger (Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, New York)
This 3rd edition of the Annals review series in ecology and conservation biology contains a diverse collection of timely reviews on current problems in conservation biology and their scientific, policy, and management implications.
eBriefing
Moderator: Garrick Utley (Levin Institute)
Arts administrators are always looking for new ways to survive and thrive under economic pressure. How are they doing in NYC? Read a report and see multimedia in the latest update in this eBriefing.
Annals
This Annals online meeting report presents an summary of the “Fourth Annual Translational Stem Cell Research Conference: Breaking Ground”, sponsored by the New York Stem Cell Foundation.
Annals
Edited by George R. Uhl (Molecular Neurobiology, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, Maryland).
This Annals issue brings together some of the very best minds in the field to review the latest ideas in the field of addiction.
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