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Friday, February 19, 2010

8:30 AM-10:00 AM

Symposium Track: Communicating Science

Communicating on the State and Local Level: How Can Scientists Support Policy-Makers?

Symposium Track: Education in the Classroom

Scientific Approaches to Teaching Science in K-16 Education

Symposium Track: Energy Today and Tomorrow

Smart and Secure Transmission Grids To Realize US and EU Renewable Energy Potentials

Symposium Track: Beyond the Classroom

Women and Men in the Scientific Work Force: Issues of Networks, Partners, and Ethics

Symposium Track: Global Science and Policy

Working Together for the Public: Challenges for Verification of Nuclear Activities

8:30 AM-11:30 AM

Symposium Track: Public Health and Wellness

Decoding the Secret Pathologies of Dolphins: Significance for Human and Ocean Health

Symposium Track: Responding to Environmental Change

Human Dimensions of Geoengineering
LATE-BREAKING SESSION- Ensuring the Transparency and Integrity of Scientific Research

Symposium Track: Protecting Marine Resources

One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, New Fish: Society Needs Marine Biodiversity Research

Symposium Track: Health, Medicine, and the Environment

One Health: Attaining Optimal Health for People, Animals, and the Environment

Symposium Track: Physical Sciences Frontiers

Physics and Art: A Gateway to the Sciences

Symposium Track: Understanding Environmental Change

Sea Ice in the Changing Climate: Modeling a Multiscale Nonlinear System

Symposium Track: Cognitive Function and Development

Stress and the Central Role of the Brain in Health Inequities

Symposium Track: Energy Today and Tomorrow

Toward Green Mobility: Integrating Electric Drive Vehicles and Smart Grid Technology

Symposium Track: Understanding Environmental Change

Up in Flames: Fire in a Changing Environment

Symposium Track: Communicating Science

Watching the Watchmen and Cheering the Heroes: The Science of Superheroes

10:30 AM-12:00 PM

Symposium Track: Global Science and Policy

Bottom-of-the-Economic-Pyramid Technological Solutions: Lessons from Success Stories

Symposium Track: Protecting Marine Resources

Ensuring Marine Policy Is Responsive to Social Dynamics and Management Experience

Symposium Track: Understanding Environmental Change

Integrated Science for Society and the Environment

Symposium Track: Beyond the Classroom

Mind Changes: Can Out-of-School Learning Contribute to Evolution Literacy?

Symposium Track: Science, Policy, and Economics

Scientific Rationality and Policy-Making: Making Their Marriage Work

Symposium Track: Education in the Classroom

Visualizations in the Mind and in the World: Implications for STEM Education

1:30 PM-3:00 PM

Symposium Track: Health, Medicine, and the Environment

A California Roadmap for Identifying Chemicals that Affect Breast Cancer Risk

Symposium Track: Science, Policy, and Economics

A Wobbly Three-Legged Stool: Science, Politics, and the Public

Symposium Track: Beyond the Classroom

Building Bridges Between Ocean Scientists, Educators, and Students

Symposium Track: Public Health and Wellness

Food Allergies: The Enemy Within

Symposium Track: Responding to Environmental Change

Greening Cities Through Media, Education, and Science

Symposium Track: Protecting Marine Resources

Limits to Sustainability of Coral Reef Fisheries

Symposium Track: Beyond the Classroom

Scientific Foundations for Future Physicians

Symposium Track: Cognitive Function and Development

Traumatic Brain Injury: The Violent and Silent Epidemic

Symposium Track: Physical Sciences Frontiers

What’s Next for the Net? The Internet of Things and Ubiquitous Computing

1:30 PM-4:30 PM

Symposium Track: Responding to Environmental Change

Algae for Food, Feed, Fiber, Freshwater, and Fuel

Symposium Track: Responding to Environmental Change

Co-Evolution of Science and Society for Sustainability Innovation

Symposium Track: Understanding Environmental Change

Dust in the Earth System

Symposium Track: Education in the Classroom

First-Person Solvers? Learning Mathematics in a Video Game

Symposium Track: Health, Medicine, and the Environment

Innate Immunity: Theme and Variations

Symposium Track: Communicating Science

Science Meets Society: Walking the Talk

Symposium Track: Physical Sciences Frontiers

The Arrow of Time

Symposium Track: Global Science and Policy

What Went Wrong with the Global Economy?

3:30 PM-5:00 PM

Symposium Track: Energy Today and Tomorrow

Biofuels' Uncertain Future: Unraveling the Science and Politics of Indirect Land Use

Symposium Track: Protecting Marine Resources

Confronting Ocean Acidification: Options for Management and Policy

Symposium Track: Public Health and Wellness

Impact of Biomedical Progress on Health Span and Health Care of the Elderly

Symposium Track: Cognitive Function and Development

Language Processing for Science and Society

Symposium Track: Physical Sciences Frontiers

Managing the Exaflood: Enhancing the Value of Networked Data for Science and Society

Symposium Track: Energy Today and Tomorrow

Nuclear Waste Management: From Public Perception To Industrial Reality

Symposium Track: Science, Policy, and Economics

Speaking Scientific Truth to Power

Symposium Track: Public Health and Wellness

Tracking and Tracing Our Food Supply: The Way Forward

Saturday, February 20, 2010

8:30 AM-10:00 AM

Symposium Track: Understanding Environmental Change

Bridging Science and Society for Sustainability: The Role of Visualization

Symposium Track: Global Science and Policy

Building International Security Through Lab-to-Lab Exchanges

Symposium Track: Science, Policy, and Economics

Past, Present, and Future of Forensic Science in the United States

Symposium Track: Public Health and Wellness

Repairing Our DNA: Bridging Molecular Mechanism and Human Health

Symposium Track: Public Health and Wellness

Science in Motion: Addressing Complex Health Problems Through Upstream Solutions

Symposium Track: Physical Sciences Frontiers

Traffic, Crowds, and Society

8:30 AM-11:30 AM

Symposium Track: Physical Sciences Frontiers

50 Years of Exobiology and Astrobiology: Past, Present, and Future Life in the Universe

Symposium Track: Health, Medicine, and the Environment

Applying Biogenomics to Ecology: From the Molecular to the Ecosystem Level

Symposium Track: Responding to Environmental Change

Can Geoengineering Save Us from Global Warming?

Symposium Track: Responding to Environmental Change

Coastal Adaptation

Symposium Track: Energy Today and Tomorrow

Combating Global Emissions:The Urgent Needfor aNew Strategy in the Asia- Pacific Rim

Symposium Track: Education in the Classroom

Demonstrating the Legal Sustainability of Effective STEM Diversity Programs

Symposium Track: Beyond the Classroom

Learning Science in Informal Environments

Symposium Track: Energy Today and Tomorrow

Nanotechnology: Will Nanomaterials Revolutionize Energy Applications?

Symposium Track: Cognitive Function and Development

The Brain on Trial: Neuroscience Evidence in the Courtroom

Symposium Track: Health, Medicine, and the Environment

The Impact of Genomics

Symposium Track: Global Science and Policy

When Science Goes Global, Can Everybody Win?

10:30 AM-12:00 PM

Symposium Track: Science, Policy, and Economics

DNA Identifiability: Ethical Issues and Policy Challenges

Symposium Track: Understanding Environmental Change

Global Food Security, Land Use, and the Environment: Future Challenges

Symposium Track: Protecting Marine Resources

Management and Governance in a Melting Marine Arctic: Challenges and Opportunities

Symposium Track: Physical Sciences Frontiers

Particles and People: How Basic Physics Benefits Society

Symposium Track: Global Science and Policy

The Next Big Thing: Keys in the Transformation from Science to Society

Symposium Track: Public Health and Wellness

The Science of Well-Being and Implications for Societal Quality of Life

1:30 PM-3:00 PM

Symposium Track: Health, Medicine, and the Environment

Consequences of Endocrine Disrupting Agents in the Laboratory and Home

Symposium Track: Communicating Science

Earthquake Science and Advocacy: Helping Californians Live Along the San Andreas Fault

Symposium Track: Communicating Science

Facing the Uncertain Future of International Science Journalism

Symposium Track: Understanding Environmental Change

Getting to the Roots of Agricultural Productivity

Symposium Track: Beyond the Classroom

Reemergence of Science, Technology, and Education as Priorities in the Arab World

Symposium Track: Public Health and Wellness

Targeting HIV/AIDS Prevention: New Research and Future Avenues

Symposium Track: Cognitive Function and Development

Unexpected Discoveries on Brain Function and Development from Model Organisms

1:30 PM-4:30 PM

Symposium Track: Protecting Marine Resources

Denial, Detente, and Decisions: Fisheries Science at the Crossroads

Symposium Track: Global Science and Policy

Privacy in a New Global Context: Trapped Between Culture, Laws, and Technology

Symposium Track: Physical Sciences Frontiers

Real Numbers: Mathematical Technologies for Counterterrorism and Border Security

Symposium Track: Health, Medicine, and the Environment

Rethinking the Science, Biology, and Importance of Stem Cells in Regenerative Medicine

Symposium Track: Education in the Classroom

Science Literacy: How To Train Teachers, Engage Students, and Maximize Learning

Symposium Track: Energy Today and Tomorrow

Societal Strategies for Addressing the Climate and Energy Challenge

Symposium Track: Science, Policy, and Economics

The Future of the National Science Foundation on Its 60th Anniversary

Symposium Track: Beyond the Classroom

Tomorrow's Scientists and Engineers

3:30 PM-5:00 PM

Symposium Track: Communicating Science

Communicating Science to the Public: Culture and Social Context in East Asia

Symposium Track: Health, Medicine, and the Environment

False Discoveries and Statistics: Implications for Health and the Environment

Symposium Track: Public Health and Wellness

Improving Oral Health: Smiles for Life

Symposium Track: Cognitive Function and Development

Music-Language Interactions in the Brain: From the Brainstem to Broca’s Area

Symposium Track: Communicating Science

Plato’s Progeny: Academies of Science

Symposium Track: Education in the Classroom

TIMSS 2007: Exploring the Dramatic Improvements in Performance in Two States

Symposium Track: Public Health and Wellness

Translating the Science of Vector-Borne Disease to the Improvement of Global Health

Sunday, February 21, 2010

8:30 AM-10:00 AM

Symposium Track: Science, Policy, and Economics

Ethical and Societal Dimensions of Biosecurity and Dual-Use Research

Symposium Track: Energy Today and Tomorrow

Gray Is the New Green: How Energy Recycling Curbs Both Global Warming and Power Costs

Symposium Track: Protecting Marine Resources

Land-Ocean Linkages and Dynamics of High-Productivity Ecosystems in the Sea of Cortes

8:30 AM-11:30 AM

Symposium Track: Protecting Marine Resources

Adam Smith Meets Jacques Cousteau: Using Economics To Protect Marine Resources

Symposium Track: Responding to Environmental Change

Climate Change in Working Landscapes: Sustainability Science and Policy Perspectives

Symposium Track: Energy Today and Tomorrow

Consequences of Changes in Energy Return on Energy Invested

Symposium Track: Communicating Science

Eyes on Screen: Communicating Science in the New Information Age

Symposium Track: Communicating Science

Genetics and Ethics: Different Views on the Human Condition

Symposium Track: Public Health and Wellness

Healthy and Plentiful Animal-Based Foods: Science Offers New Possibilities

Symposium Track: Global Science and Policy

Mobilizing East Asian Science and Technology To Address Critical Global Challenges

Symposium Track: Health, Medicine, and the Environment

Moving Across Scales: Mathematics for Investigating Biological Hierarchies

Symposium Track: Cognitive Function and Development

Role of Sleep in Memory from Development to Old Age

Symposium Track: Physical Sciences Frontiers

SETI Turns 50

Symposium Track: Beyond the Classroom

Strategies for Diaspora To Be Enablers of S&T Capacity-Building in Their Homelands

Symposium Track: Understanding Environmental Change

Sustainability Science: Transformative Research Beyond Scenario Studies

Symposium Track: Beyond the Classroom

Top-Down or Bottom-Up? Comparing European and U.S. Gender Policies in Science

Symposium Track: Education in the Classroom

Worlds of Wonder: Can Video Games Teach Science?

10:30 AM-12:00 PM

Symposium Track: Science, Policy, and Economics

The American Community Survey and the Census: A New Foundation for the Social Sciences

Symposium Track: Protecting Marine Resources

Unraveling the Mysteries of the Deep: Effects of Human Activities on Marine Megafauna

1:30 PM-3:00 PM

Symposium Track: Physical Sciences Frontiers

Astrobiology and the Future: Science, Ethics, and Societal Issues on Earth and Beyond

Symposium Track: Physical Sciences Frontiers

Doomsday Versus Discovery

Symposium Track: Education in the Classroom

Education Research at Minority-Serving Institutions: What Have We Learned?

Symposium Track: Responding to Environmental Change

Infusing Science into Sustainable, Master-Planned Communities

Symposium Track: Global Science and Policy

Oceans Apart? Transatlantic Perspectives on Public Research and Business Innovation

Symposium Track: Understanding Environmental Change

Preserving the Global Commons Through Conservation and Cooperation

Symposium Track: Health, Medicine, and the Environment

Protecting the Consumer: Can "Omics" Keep the Promise?

Symposium Track: Communicating Science

Science in the Theater

Symposium Track: Cognitive Function and Development

The Long Reach of Early Childhood Poverty: Pathways and Impacts

Symposium Track: Science, Policy, and Economics

Value and Limits of Scientific Research: Past and Future R&D Budgets

1:30 PM-4:30 PM

Symposium Track: Energy Today and Tomorrow

Advanced Nuclear Energy Concepts for a Safe, Sustainable, Carbon-Free Future

Symposium Track: Beyond the Classroom

Civic Scientific Literacy in Developed and Developing Countries

Symposium Track: Protecting Marine Resources

Designing the Future Ocean: Baseline Data Needs for Marine Spatial Planning

Symposium Track: Science, Policy, and Economics

Mathematics and the Analysis of Fairness in Political Processes

Symposium Track: Protecting Marine Resources

Will Coral Reefs Disappear? Separating Fact from Conjecture

3:30 PM-5:00 PM

Symposium Track: Physical Sciences Frontiers

Are Neutrinos the Reason We Exist?

Symposium Track: Responding to Environmental Change

Can Science Feed the World?

Symposium Track: Communicating Science

Covering Global Climate Change and Adaptation from the Ground Up

Symposium Track: Science, Policy, and Economics

Intelligence of Dolphins: Ethical and Policy Implications

Symposium Track: Cognitive Function and Development

Language Learning in Deaf Children: Integrating Research on Speech, Gesture, and Sign

Symposium Track: Health, Medicine, and the Environment

Mutators Versus Antimutators in Evolution and Medicine

Symposium Track: Understanding Environmental Change

Progress in the Use of Earth Observation for Fighting Hunger

Symposium Track: Education in the Classroom

Role of Community Colleges in Increasing Minority Students in the STEM Pipeline

Symposium Track: Global Science and Policy

Science Academies in Society

Symposium Track: Health, Medicine, and the Environment

Science of the Small: Nano-Bio-Technology Under the Biological Microscope

Symposium Track: Energy Today and Tomorrow

Urban Design and Energy Demand: Transforming Cities for an Eco-Energy Future

Monday, February 22, 2010

9:45 AM-11:15 AM

Symposium Track: Education in the Classroom

Can Singapore Mathematics Enhance Student Learning in the United States?

Symposium Track: Public Health and Wellness

Children of Assisted Reproductive Technologies: Their Health and New Genetic Issues

Symposium Track: Cognitive Function and Development

From Gene Discovery to Cell Biology in Psychiatry: An Emerging Case

Symposium Track: Responding to Environmental Change

Geoengineering the Climate: The Royal Society Study

Symposium Track: Physical Sciences Frontiers

How Computational Science Is Tackling the Grand Challenges Facing Science and Society

Symposium Track: Global Science and Policy

Information Technologies and Remote Sensing for Understanding Human Rights Violations

Symposium Track: Protecting Marine Resources

Marine Reserves in a Changing World: Connecting Research with Human Needs

Symposium Track: Responding to Environmental Change

Research Translation and Environmental Health: A U.S.-Mexico Border Initiative

Symposium Track: Understanding Environmental Change

Understanding Climate-Change Skepticism: Its Sources and Strategies

Symposium Track: Science, Policy, and Economics

Using GIS and Spatial Analysis To Better Understand Patterns and Causes of Violence