Webcast Archives

Annual Meeting: April 22 - 24, 2010

Benjamin Franklin Hall

BARUCH S. BLUMBERG
President, in the Chair
Admission of New Members

Symposium On Newly Acquired Jefferson Letters for the APS Library

CONRAD K. HARPER
Vice President, in the Chair
Introduction

BARBARA B. OBERG
General Editor, Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Princeton University
An Irreparable Misfortune Has Deprived Me of Them: Thomas Jefferson's Indian Vocabularies

KEITH THOMSON
Senior Research Associate, American Philosophical Society; Professor Emeritus, Oxford University
The "Great Claw" and the Science of Thomas Jefferson

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NINA G. JABLONSKI
Head and Professor of Anthropology, The Pennsylvania State University
Human Skin Pigmentation as an Example of Adaptive Evolution

RAN JIA
Pianist, Curtis Institute of Music
Concert

BARUCH S. BLUMBERG
President, in the Chair
Admission of New Members

STEVEN CHU
United States Secretary of Energy
Department of Energy
Meeting the Energy and Climate Challenge

Symposium On Alternative Energy

WALTER L. ROBB
Moderator; President, Vantage Management, Inc.; Retired Chief Technology Officer, General Electric
Introduction

EDWARD MOSES
Principal Associate Director, National Ignition Facility and Photon Science, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Outlook For Fusion Energy

ARTHUR J. NOZIK
Senior Research Fellow, National Renewable Energy Laboratory; Professor Adjoint, Department of Chemistry, University of Colorado at Boulder
Present Status Of And Future Prognosis For Solar Photon Convers Ion To Clean Electricity And Renewable Fuels

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BARUCH S. BLUMBERG
President, in the Chair
Presentation Of Society Awards And Prizes

ALEJANDRO PORTES
Howard Harrison and Gabrielle Snyder Beck Professor of Sociology; Director, Center for Migration and Development - Princeton University
America and Its Immigrants : A Game of Mirrors

CONSUELO M. DE MORAES
Associate Professor, Department of Entomology, The Pennsylvania State University
Chemical Communication Among Plants And Insects

Panel: The American Research University In Crisis?

HARRIET ZUCKERMAN
Vice President, in the Chair
Introduction

JUDITH R. SHAPIRO
Moderator; President Emeritus, Barnard College
JONATHAN R. COLE
John Mitchell Mason Professor of the University; Provost and Dean of Faculties, Emeritus - Columbia University
Panel

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BARUCH S. BLUMBERG
President, in the Chair
Admission of New Members

Symposium on Space Science and Engineering: Present and Future

BARUCH S. BLUMBERG
President, in the Chair
Moderator
Introduction

PAUL HERTZ
Chief Scientist, NASA Science Mission Directorate
The Present and Future of Space Science and NASA

CARL B. PILCHER
Director, NASA Astrobiology Institute
Astrobiology and Space Exploration

WILLIAM J. BORUCKI
“Kepler” Mission Principal Investigator; NASA Ames Research Center
“Kepler” Mission: Discoveries and Future Plans

JILL TARTER
Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute
The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence: Past, Present, and Future