<html><head><base href="x-msg://36/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><br></span></div><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div lang="EN-US" vlink="purple" link="blue" ocsi="x"><div style="font-family: Tahoma; direction: ltr; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; "><div><br> </div><div></div><div><div style="font-family: Tahoma; 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"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; font-size: 10.5pt; "></span> </p></div></div><div><div align="center"><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="620" style="width: 465pt; "><tbody><tr><td colspan="3" style="padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; "><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: 13.5pt; "><img id="_x0000_i1025" border="0" alt="ILA: Science in the Liberal Arts University - Why it Matters to Us All" src="http://bc.edu/content/dam/files/offices/cfc/email/ilasymposium/header.jpg" width="620" height="430"></span></div></td></tr><tr><td width="204" style="padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; width: 153pt; padding-right: 0in; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; 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font-size: 11.5pt; "><br>Siva Vaidhyanathan, <em>University of Virginia</em></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; margin-right: 0in; "><strong><span style="color: white; font-size: 11.5pt; "></span></strong> </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; margin-right: 0in; "><strong><span style="color: white; font-size: 11.5pt; ">Session 4: Why Science Matters</span></strong><span style="color: white; font-size: 11.5pt; "><br>Brian Greene, <em>Columbia University</em></span></div></td></tr><tr><td style="padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(154, 137, 119); padding-top: 0in; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; 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