Member Magazine: The Bulletin

Summer 2017 Bulletin

Table of Contents
From the President
Academy News
Gift Spotlight: $5 Million Gift from John and Louise Bryson will Fund Science, Engineering, and Technology Research
Projects and Publications
Humanities Indicators: STEM Fields Growing among Four-Year College Degree Recipients
Technology in a Time of War: Humanitarian Aid at an Inflection Point
Francesca Giovannini and Kathryn Moffat
Dædalus explores “The Prospects & Limits of Deliberative Democracy”
Presentations
On Free Speech and Academic Freedom
Joan Wallach Scott
A Reading and Discussion of Paradise, a play by Laura Maria Censabella
Paula T. Hammond, Rebecca Saxe, and Saba Valadkhan
Communicating Science in an Age of Disbelief in Experts
Featuring: Richard Andrew Meserve, Mary Sue Coleman, Alan I. Leshner, Joseph W. Palca, and Matthew P. Scott
On the Professions
Green Infrastructure through the Revival of Ancient Wisdom
Kongjian Yu
Memory Processes and Aging
Fergus I.M. Craik
The Time Inconsistency of Long Constitutions
George Tsebelis
Update on Members
Remembering Henri A. Termeer
Phillip Allen Sharp
Noteworthy
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