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<div align="center">Science, Technology, and Global Security Working
Group at MIT<br><br>
Presents<br><br>
A talk by Matthew Meselson<br>
Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences<br>
Harvard University<br>
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<i>“Arms Control and International Criminal Law”<br>
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Date: April 17, 2008<br>
Time: 12 – 1:30 PM<br>
Place: E51-095 (70 Memorial Drive)<br>
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Professor Meselson has been on the faculty of the Department of Molecular
and Cellular Biology at Harvard University since 1960. Recognized as a
distinguished biologist and winner of the Award in Molecular Biology from
the National Academy of Sciences and the 2004 Albert Lasker Special
Achievement Award in Medical Sciences among many others, Dr. Meselson has
had for a long time an interest in biological and chemical weapons
defense and arms control and has served as a consultant on this subject
to various government agencies and the World Health Organization. He is
co-director of the Harvard Sussex Program on CBW Armament and Arms
Limitation and co-editor of its quarterly journal, <i>The CBW Conventions
Bulletin</i>. <br>
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Dr. Meselson is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the
Institute of Medicine, and the Council on Foreign Relations, to name a
few. He has served on the Arms Control and Non-Proliferation Advisory
Board to the Secretary of State, and the Committee on International
Security and Arms Control of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.<br>
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Free and open to the public.<br>
Contact Subrata Ghoshroy for further information, (617) 253-3846<br>
E-mail: ghoshroy@mit.edu<br><br>
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<font face="Book Antiqua, Bookman">Danielle Mancini<br>
Program in Science, Technology, and Society<br>
Science, Technology, and Global Security Working Group<br>
MIT, E51-163D<br>
77 Massachusetts Avenue<br>
Cambridge, MA 02139<br>
<a href="http://web.mit.edu/stgs" eudora="autourl">
http://web.mit.edu/stgs<br>
</a>Tel: 617-452-2542<br>
Fax:617-258-5750<br>
Email: dmancini@mit.edu <br><br>
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