[Sci-tech-public] April 3 - Science & Democracy Lecture Series with Harold Varmus

[Debbie Meinbresse]

>
>The Program on Science, Technology, and Society 
>(STS) at the John F. Kennedy School of Government presents:
>
>Science and Democracy, a lecture series 
>exploring the promised benefits of our era's 
>most salient scientific and technological 
>breakthroughs and the potentially harmful 
>consequences of developments that are 
>inadequately understood, debated, or managed by 
>politicians, lay publics, and policy institutions.
>
>Harold Varmus
>President of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
>Former Director NIH (1993 – 1999); Nobel Laureate, 1989
>
>"Enhancing the Contract:
>The Federal Government and American Science
>in a New Administration"
>
>Moderated by
>John Beckwith, Harvard Medical School
>
>Panelists
>Sheila Jasanoff, Kennedy School of Government
>Charles Rosenberg, History of Science, Harvard University
>Dan Sarewitz, Arizona State University
>
>Thursday, April 3
>5:00 - 7:00 pm
>Yenching Institute Auditorium
>Harvard University
>2 Divinity Ave, Cambridge
>
>Many observers have commented on the damage that 
>the current administration has done to science 
>over the past seven years. Harold Varmus will 
>evaluate the effects of this era on the 
>traditional relationship between the scientific 
>enterprise and the federal government, and offer 
>some ideas about what a new administration could 
>do to restore that relationship, increase the 
>confidence of the scientific community in 
>government, and allow the nation to take greater 
>advantage of science and technology.  In 
>particular, he will consider measures to 
>strengthen the  representation of science in the 
>White House; discuss the possibility of 
>achieving a more predictable, multi-year pattern 
>of funding for science agencies; recommend ways 
>to codify the mechanisms by which the federal 
>government obtains scientific advice and 
>protects the independence of government 
>scientists; and explain why our country should 
>establish stronger roles for science, medicine, 
>and technology in foreign policy.
>
>This event is co-sponsored by the Harvard 
>University Center for the Environment and the 
>School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.  For 
>more information on STS events at Harvard, 
>please visit: <http://www.hks.harvard.edu/sts>http://www.hks.harvard.edu/sts
>
>This event is free and open to the public.
>
>Contact:
>Lisa Matthews
>Events Coordinator
>Harvard University Center for the Environment
>24 Oxford Street
>Cambridge, MA 02138
><mailto:lisa_matthews at harvard.edu>lisa_matthews at harvard.edu
>p. 617-495-8883
>f. 617-496-0425

Debbie Meinbresse
STS Program, MIT
617-452-2390
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