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CSSP Spring Meeting
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Saturday, 6 May 2017 |
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CSSP Board of Directors Meeting | 9:00 am-12:00 pm |
CSSP Board of Directors Lunch | 12:00-1:00 pm |
OpeningDr. Robert Barsley, CSSP Chairman Welcome, Introductions, History, and Status of CSSP |
1:00-2:00 pm |
Scientific Session-Future of Science |
2:00-5:30 pm |
Dr. Dan Kahan, Elizabeth K. Dollard Professor of Law and Professor of Psychology, Yale Law School “Science Curiosity and Enlightened Self-Government” |
2:00-3:00 pm |
Break | 3:00-3:30 pm |
Dr. Noelle F. Metting, Radiation Biologist, U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Public Radiation Protection, Office of Environmental Protection and ES&H Reporting “Low Dose Radiation Exposures in Perspective” | 3:30-4:30 pm |
Skip Hobbs, Founder and Managing Partner, Ammonite Resources “The Future of Planet Earth: A Changing Biosphere and Human Global Stewardship” | 4:30-5:30 pm |
Opening Reception Dinner will be on your own following the reception. | 6:00-7:30 pm |
Sunday, 7 May 2017 |
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CSSP Committee Meetings Participants will meet with two different committees for one hour each. |
8:00-10:00 am |
Break | 10:00-10:30 am |
“False” News Session |
10:30 am-12:15 pm |
Fred Lawrence, 10th Secretary and CEO, Phi Beta Kappa Society; Visiting Professor of Law and Senior Research Scholar, Yale Law School; Visiting Professor, Georgetown Law Center “What Counts as Evidence: Asserting truth in an age of fake news” |
10:30-11:15 am |
Richard Harris, Correspondent, Science Desk, NPR “Dealing with Problems of Rigor and Reproducibility during Queasy Times for Science” |
11:15 am-12:15 pm |
Lunch | 12:15-1:30 pm |
Frontiers of Science |
1:30-5:00 pm |
Dr. Ronald Rael, Eva Li Memorial Chair of Architecture, University of California Berkeley “Novel Buildings and Components 3-D Printed From Renewable Resources” |
1:30 -2:30 pm |
Dr. Rudy Jaenisch, Founding Member, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and Professor of Biology, MIT “Exciting Future of 3-D Cell NeuroBiology and Gene Editing” |
2:30-3:30 pm |
Break | 3:30-4:00 pm |
Dr. Nicole C. Kleinstreuer, Deputy Director, NTP Interagency Center for the Evaluation of Alternative Toxicological Methods (NICEATM) “Computer Models, Cell-Based Tests, and a National Strategy to Improve Safety Testing” |
4:00-5:00 pm |
Dinner at Logan Tavern Logan Tavern is located at 1423 P Street, NW, Washington, DC 20005. |
6:30-9:00 pm |
Monday, 8 May 2017 |
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CSSP Meeting |
8:30 am-5:00 pm |
Dr. Seth C. Murray, Senior Advisor of Agricultural Systems, Office of the Chief Scientist (OCS)/U.S. Department of Agriculture “Data on High: the Texas A&M Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Agriculture Project” |
8:30-9:30 am |
Ross Baker, Rutgers Professor of American Government and U.S. Legislative Politics “The Decline in Public Rectitude: It’s All Hamilton’s Fault” | 9:30-10:30 am |
Break | 10:30-11:00 am |
Charles F. Bolden, Jr., Major General, USMC (Retired), NASA Astronaut | 11:00 am-12:00 pm |
Lunch | 12:00-1:30 pm |
CSSP Meeting (continued) | |
Dr. Chris Volpe, Executive Director, ScienceCounts “Raising Voices for Science: A Data-Driven Public Engagement Initiative” |
1:00-2:00 pm |
Break | 2:00-2:30 pm |
Committee Reports and Call for Action | 3:00-5:00 pm |
Kavli Lecture and AwardsDr. George M. Church, Professor of Genetics and Health Sciences and Technology at Harvard and MIT (HST), Director of HMS NHGRI-Center of Excellence in Genomic Science, Director of the Personal Genome Project, Broad Institute and Wyss Harvard Institute of Biologically Inspired Engineering“Engineering Human Genomes and Environments” |
6:30-8:00 pm |
Board and Kavli Reception By invitation only |
8:00-10:00 pm |
Tuesday, 9 May 2017 |
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Congressional Breakfast | 8:00-10:30 am |
Speaker: U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, MD (R-Louisiana) | 9:00-9:20 am |
CSSP Board of Directors Meeting | 10:30 am-12:00 pm |
Visits to Capitol Hill Visits Arranged Individually |
Tuesday afternoon |