[Sci-tech-public] Reminder: Meselson Lecture Tomorrow 4/17

[Danielle Mancini]

Science, Technology, and Global Security Working Group at MIT

Presents

A talk by Matthew Meselson
Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences
Harvard University


“Arms Control and International Criminal Law”

Date: April 17, 2008
Time: 12 – 1:30 PM
Place: E51-095 (70 Memorial Drive)

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, The CBW Conventions Bulletin.

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.

Free and open to the public.
Contact Subrata Ghoshroy for further information, (617) 253-3846
E-mail: ghoshroy at mit.edu


Danielle Mancini
Program in Science, Technology, and Society
Science, Technology, and Global Security Working Group
MIT, E51-163D
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139
http://web.mit.edu/stgs
Tel: 617-452-2542
Fax:617-258-5750
Email: dmancini at mit.edu

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