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<h2 align="center"><font color="#008080"><font face="Arial"><font color="#ff0000">Origins of Life: The Earth, the Solar System, and
Beyond</font><br></font></font><font size="1"><br></font><font face="Arial" size="2">Cosponsored by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and the Origins
of Life Initiative, Harvard University</font></h2>
<p align="center"><font face="Arial"><b><font color="#ff0000" size="3">Friday,
March 7, 2008<br>9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.<br></font></b><br></font><b><font face="Arial">Radcliffe Gymnasium<br>10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard<br>Cambridge,
Massachusetts</font></b></p>
<p align="center"><font face="Arial">Admission is free, and <span>registration is required.</span></font></p>
<p align="center"><font face="Arial"><span><u><a title="http://www.zoomerang.com/survey.zgi?p=WEB227BGXN7WBE" href="http://www.zoomerang.com/survey.zgi?p=WEB227BGXN7WBE" target="_blank"><font title="http://www.zoomerang.com/survey.zgi?p=WEB227BGXN7WBE" color="#ff0000">Click
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<p align="left"><span></span><font face="Arial">Of all the
questions scientists might ask about life, none is more basic or challenging
than how life emerges in the first place. Modern research suggests that life
results from planetary processes, but there are still many unknowns. Which
processes were critical to the beginning of life? What environments support
these processes? Recent advances in the understanding of planets and moons in
our solar system and the discovery of extrasolar planets may lead to research
and space missions that help answer these questions. This symposium will convene
leading biologists, chemists, and planetary scientists to explore pathbreaking
information about planetary processes and the possibility that the origin of
life is grounded in them.</font></p>
<h3 align="left"><font face="Arial"><font size="3">S<span>PEAKERS</span></font></font></h3>
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<p align="left"><font face="Arial"><font color="#ff0000"><b>Donna G.
Blackmond</b>,</font> professor of chemistry and of chemical engineering,
Imperial College London<br><br><font color="#ff0000"><b>David
Catling</b>,</font> European Union Marie Curie Chair, University of
Bristol<br><br><font color="#ff0000"><b>Gerald F. Joyce</b>,</font>
professor of chemistry and molecular biology, The Scripps Research
Institute<br><br><font color="#ff0000"><b>Scott M. McLennan</b>,</font>
professor of geochemistry, State University of New York at Stony
Brook<br><br><font color="#ff0000"><b>Martin Schoonen</b>,</font>
professor of geochemistry, State University of New York at Stony
Brook<br><br><font color="#ff0000"><b>Sara Seager</b>,</font> Ellen
Swallow Richards Associate Professor of Planetary Science and associate
professor of physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology<br><br><font color="#ff0000"><b>Lucy M. Ziurys</b>,</font> professor of astronomy and
chemistry, University of Arizona</font></p>
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</p><h3 align="left"><font face="Arial" size="3"><span>FACULTY
PLANNING COMMITTEE</span></font></h3>
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<p align="left"><font face="Arial"><font color="#ff0000"><b>Barbara J.
Grosz</b>,</font> interim dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced
Study and Higgins Professor of Natural Sciences, Harvard University<br><br><font color="#ff0000"><b>Andrew H. Knoll</b>,</font> Fisher Professor of
Natural History and professor of earth and planetary sciences, Harvard
University<br><br><font color="#ff0000"><b>Ann Pearson</b>,</font>
Thomas D. Cabot Associate Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard
University<br><br><font color="#ff0000"><b>Dimitar Sasselov</b>,</font>
professor of astronomy and director, Origins of Life Initiative, Harvard
University<br><br><font color="#ff0000"><b>Maria Zuber</b>,</font> E. A.
Griswold Professor of Geophysics and head of the department of earth,
atmospheric, and planetary sciences, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology</font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="Arial">This event is supported by the Marjorie Cabot de
Enriquez Fund.</font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="Arial">For more information, visit </font><a title="http://www.radcliffe.edu/" href="http://www.radcliffe.edu/" target="_blank"><font title="http://www.radcliffe.edu/" face="Arial">www.radcliffe.edu</font></a><font face="Arial"> or call 617-495-8600.</font></p>
<p align="left"><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="1"><b>The Radcliffe
Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University is a scholarly community
where individuals pursue advanced work across a wide range of academic
disciplines, professions, and creative arts. Within this broad purpose,
the Institute sustains a continuing commitment to the study of women, gender,
and society.</b></font></p></font></font></div>
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