• The Nuclear Future (video)
  Cambridge, MA, October 12, 2008
  PANEL I
  Moderator: Richard A. Meserve, President, Carnegie Institution for Science. Speakers: Robert Rosner, President, UChicago Argonne, LLC; Director, Argonne National Laboratory. William E. Wrather, Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago. Richard Lester, Director, Industrial Performance Center and Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Scott D. Sagan, Professor of Political Science and Codirector, Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University. Steven E. Miller, Director, International Security Program, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School.
  PRESENTATION OF THE RUMFORD PRIZE
  --About the Rumford Prize: Louis W. Cabot, Chair of the Academy Trust and Vice President of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Leslie Berlowitz, Chief Executive Officer and William T. Golden Chair, American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
  --Presentation of the Rumford Prize: To Sidney D. Drell, Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University; Professor of Theoretical Physics Emeritus and Deputy Director Emeritus, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center presented by Walter B. Hewlett, Chair of The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and Emilio Bizzi, President of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. To William J. Perry, Michael and Barbara Berberian Professor, Stanford University; Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University presented by Walter B. Hewlett and Emilio Bizzi. To Sam Nunn, Cochairman and Chief Executive Officer, Nuclear Threat Initiative presented by Stephen D. Bechtel, Jr., Chairman Emeritus and Director of Bechtel Group, Inc., and Leslie Berlowitz. To George P. Shultz, Thomas W. and Susan B. Ford Distinguished Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University presented by Stephen D. Bechtel, Jr. and Leslie Berlowitz.
  PANEL II
  Moderator: Richard A. Meserve, President, Carnegie Institution for Science. Speakers: Sidney D. Drell, Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University; Professor of Theoretical Physics Emeritus and Deputy Director Emeritus, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. William J. Perry, Michael and Barbara Berberian Professor, Stanford University; Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University. Sam Nunn, Cochairman and Chief Executive Officer, Nuclear Threat Initiative. George P. Shultz, Thomas W. and Susan B. Ford Distinguished Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University.
• 228th Induction Ceremony (audio)
  House of the Academy, Cambridge, MA, October 11, 2008
  Speakers: James Harris Simons, President and Founder, Renaissance Technologies introduced by Arthur Gelb, President of Four Sigma Corporation. Peter S. Kim, President, Merck Research Laboratories introduced by David D. Sabatini, Frederick L. Ehrman Professor and Chairman of the Department of Cell Biology at the New York University School of Medicine. Susan C. Athey, Professor of Economics, Harvard University introduced by Eric J. Sundquist, UCLA Foundation Professor. Earl Lewis, Provost Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, Asa Griggs Candler Professor of History and African American Studies, Emory University introduced by Carol Cluck, George Sansom Professor of History. Indra K. Nooyi, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, PepsiCo introduced by Gerald Rosenfeld, Deputy Chairman of Rothschild North America, Clinical Professor of Business, Leonard N. Stern School of Business New York University.
• ARISE Press Briefing at the National Press Club (audio)
  Washington DC, Tuesday, June 3, 2008
  Speakers: Thomas R. Cech (Chair, ARISE report), President, Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Neal Lane, Malcolm Gillis University Professor, Rice University. Keith Yamamoto, Executive Vice Dean, Professor of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine.
• Science Results from the Mars Exploration Rover Mission (audio)
  House of the Academy, Cambridge, MA, Wednesday, April 9, 2008
  Introduction: Claude Canizares, Bruno Rossi Professor of Physics, Vice President for Research, and Associate Provost, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Steven W. Squyres, Goldwin Smith Professor of Astronomy, Cornell University.
• The Research Library in the Information Age (audio)
  House of the Academy, Cambridge, MA, March 13, 2008
  Introduction: Bernard Bailyn, Adams University Professor, emeritus, Harvard University. Speaker: Robert Darnton, Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor, Harvard University, Director of the Harvard University Library.
• The Art and Science of Conservation (audio)
  Getty Villa in Malibu, Pacific Palisades, California, February 23, 2008
  Welcome: James Wood, President and Chief Exectutive Officer, J. Paul Getty Trust. Speakers: Jerry Podany, Principal, Machado and Silvetti Associates. Robert Campbell, architect and writes of The Boston Globe.
• Science, Policy, and the Media (audio)
  House of the Academy, Cambridge, MA, February 13, 2008
  Introduction: Emilio Bizzi, Institute Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Speaker: Donald Kennedy, Editor-in-Chief, Science magazine, President Emeritus, Stanford University.
• Sustainable Cities (audio)
  Hearst Tower, New York, December 3, 2007
  Introduction: Leslie Berlowitz, Chief Executive Officer, American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Speakers: Joel E. Cohen, Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of Populations, Rockefeller University, Professor of Populations, Columbia University. Daniel L. Doctoroff, Deputy Mayor for Economic Development and Rebuilding, City of New York. Martin Filler, The New York Review of Books, former architecture critic, House & Garden.
• The World's Energy Problem and What We Can Do About It (audio)
  University of California, Berkeley, November 20, 2007
  Introduction: Robert J. Birgeneau, Chancellor, University of California, Berkeley. Speaker: Steven Chu, Director, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Professor of Physics and Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley.
• The Disappearance of Species (audio)
  Field Museum of Chicago, November 10, 2007
  Introduction: John W. McCarter, Jr., President and Chief Executive Officer, The Field Museum. Neil H. Shubin, Provost of Academic Affairs, The Field Museum, Associate Dean of Organismal and Evolutionary Biology, Robert R. Bensley Professor. University of Chicago. May R. Berenbaum, Swanlund Professor of Entomology, head of the Department of Entomology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
• Nuclear Power Without Nuclear Proliferation? (audio)
  Stanford University, October 15, 2007
  Introduction: John Hennessy, President, Stanford University. Speakers: Scott Sagan, Professor of Political Science, co-director, Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University. William J. Perry, Michael and Barbara Berberian Professor, Stanford University, Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution; Senor Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. Alexei Arbatov, Scholar-in-Residence, co-chair for non-proliferation, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace’s Moscow Center. Thomas Isaacs, Director of Policy, Planning, and Special Studies, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
• Energy and Climate Change (audio)
  House of the Academy, Cambridge, MA, October 7, 2007
  Moderator: Richard A. Meserve, President, Carnegie Institution of Washington; Former Chairman, Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Rosina M. Bierbaum, Dean & Professor of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan. William K. Reilly, President & CEO, Aqua International Partners, LP; Former Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency. Richard L. Revesz, Dean & Lawrence King Professor of Law, New York University School of Law.
• 227th Induction Ceremony (audio)
  Sanders Theatre, Harvard University, October 6, 2007
  Rodney Brooks, Panasonic Professor of Robotics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Chief Technology Officer, iRobot Corporation introduced by Arthur Gelb, President of Four Sigma Corporation. Bonnie Lynn Bassler, Squibb Professor of Molecular Biology, Princeton University; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute introduced by David D. Sabatini, Frederick L. Ehrman Professor and Chairman of the Department of Cell Biology at the New York University School of Medicine. Christopher F. Edley, Jr., Dean & Professor of Law, Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley introduced by Robert C. Post, David Boies Professor of Law, Yale Law School. Billie Tsien, Architect, Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects, LLP, New York, NY introduced by Eric J. Sundquist, UCLA Foundation Professor. Robert J. Zimmer, President, University of Chicago introduced by Gerald Rosenfeld, Deputy Chairman of Rothschild North America, Clinical Professor of Business, Leonard N. Stern School of Business New York University. Jessye Norman, Opera and Concert Artist, New York, NY introduced by Jerrold Meinwald, Goldwin Smith Professor of Chemistry, Cornell University.
• THE PUBLIC GOOD: Knowledge as the Foundation of a Democratic Society (audio)
  Washington, DC, Friday-Sunday, April 27-29, 2007
  "Convocation of the Academies"
   ---Keynote Address: Don Michael Randel, President, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
  "The Independence of the Courts"
  "Religion and the Enlightenment"
  "The United States and the Global Economy"
  "The Media and Society"
  "Celebrating Knowledge," Library of Congress 
   ---Keynote Address: E. L. Doctorow, Glucksman Professor of American and English Letters, New York University
  "Science, Health, and an Aging Society"
  "Energy Choices and Global Warming"
• Stem Cells: Politics and Promise (video)
  Stanford University, February 26, 2007
  Introduction: John L. Hennessy, President, Stanford University. Speaker: Irving L. Weissman, Virginia and D.K. Ludwig Professor for Clinical Investigation in Cancer Research; Director, Comprehensive Cancer Center; Director, Institute of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine.

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