Hi everyone, mark your calendars if you want to attend the next Great Issues Forum at the Grad Center on March 10. And be sure to send in your electronic reservation as well:
http://greatissuesforum.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=69&Itemid=77
Hi professor Quinby:
Thanks for the heads up about the event. I actually just registered. It sounds quite interesting.
I’ll be going, it looks pretty cool.
Professor Quinby, we never did get ot talk about ‘Scientific Power’. I will bring this on on Wednesday.
Speaking of science and its power, the graduate center is showing a documentary: The Making of a Scientist on Mar 4th from 6:30 followed by discussion. Here’s the small blurb they wrote about the event-
Join us for a screening of the new one-hour documentary Naturally Obsessed: The Making of a Scientist, a true story by Richard and Carole Rifkind about the struggle to become a scientist and the satisfaction of discovery. Mixing humor with heartbreak, the film tells an intensely dramatic story about a trio of irrepressible student scientists who are guided through the emotional ups and downs of a Ph.D. training program by a tough but genial mentor.
The U.S. is falling behind in the production of new science Ph.D.s. Is there a crisis looming? A discussion with laboratory scientists that follows the screening will allow an exchange of ideas on what’s needed to maintain an ample pipeline of future scientists.
I don’t know if you are interested Greg, but just though to put it out there.
– Nandini