Nobel laureate Peter Agre delivers this classic evening keynote address, regaling the audience with personal tales and recollections of the characters and trials and excitement of working in science, confessing his "D" in high school chemistry, and inspiring them with his passion and insights into how to identify and successfully navigate both the danger and the opportunity of the crisis that leads to new innovation, and how that may be applied to our current moment in history.
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This text will be replaced- Peter Agre, Director, Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute, Bloomberg School of Public Health; Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2003
INNOVATION 2008 CONFERENCE
Although we got answers from the candidates for President to the 14 top science questions facing America, we wanted to take the discussion further.
In a world economy completely dominated by science and technology,
nearly every major challenge facing the next president revolves around
science policy. What are some of the problems the next president
should be aware of?
We decided to hold a national conference to find out. We teamed up with the outstanding Center for Science, Technology and Public Policy at the University of Minnesota's Humphrey Institute to host Innovation 2008: Renewing America through Smarter Science and Technology Policy on Oct 20-21, 2008.
SESSIONS
1. Innovation
2. Education
3. Health
4. News & Culture
5. Energy
6. Peter Agre on the human side of science
7. Science, Art and the Public
8. Ira Flatow on science in America today
Science Debate 2008 gratefully acknowledges the contributions of
conference organizers Steve Kelley, Leah Wilkes, and Sophia Ginis of
the Center for Science, Technology and Public Policy and Shawn Lawrence Otto and Erik Beeler of Science Debate 2008