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Friday, February 17, 2012

8:00 AM-9:30 AM

Symposium Track: Environment

Blue Carbon, Green Opportunities: Innovative Solutions To Protect Coastal Ecosystems

Symposium Track: Climate

Designing Marine-Protected Area Networks Within Changing Global Climate Conditions

Symposium Track: Climate

Developing Integrated Understanding of Global Climate Using Dynamic Visualizations

Symposium Track: Communication

Endangered and Minority Languages Crossing the Digital Divide

Symposium Track: Health

Fifty Years of the Pill: Risk Reduction and Discovery of Benefits Beyond Contraception

Symposium Track: Discovery

Imaging and Controlling Molecular Dynamics with Ultrashort Laser Pulses

Symposium Track: Discovery

New Frontiers in the Radio Universe: Protoplanetary Disks to the Far Universe

Symposium Track: Health

Personalized Medicine: Improving Health Outcomes Through Research

Symposium Track: Development

Research as a Portfolio of Projects for Building Our Global Knowledge Society

Symposium Track: Energy

Routes to Enhanced Photosynthesis: Harvesting Sunlight for More Food and Fuel

Symposium Track: Communication

Science, Sustainability, and the Arts

Symposium Track: Policy

Science-Informed Public Engagement: Building Support for Policy

Symposium Track: Discovery

Solar Effects on Earth's Atmosphere and Climate: Results from Space Observatories

Symposium Track: Communication

Unmuzzling Government Scientists: How To Re-Open the Discourse

8:30 AM-11:30 AM

Symposium Track: Energy

Putting Scientific Breakthroughs To Work in Support of Renewable Energy

Symposium Track: Culture

Six Things Everyone Cares About: Connecting Ecosystems and Human Well-Being

Symposium Track: Collaboration

Successful Interdisciplinary Collaboration: Insights from Practice and Theory

Symposium Track: Culture

The American Society in 2035

Symposium Track: Information

Tracking Progress: Success and Failure of Biologging in Protecting the Global Ocean

10:00 AM-11:30 AM

Symposium Track: Culture

Archaeoacoustics: Did Ancient Civilizations Use Acoustic Design To Create Powerful Ritual Spaces?

Symposium Track: Climate

Chemistry in the Clouds: Impacts of Aerosols on Climate Change

Symposium Track: Development

Conquering the Final Frontier: The Importance of Space Technologies in All that We Do 

Symposium Track: Culture

Creating a Global Knowledge Society: Lessons from History, Philosophy, and Sociology

Symposium Track: Environment

Life in the Pressure Cooker: Evolution at the Bottom of the Ocean

Symposium Track: Education

Mismatched Resources: Underrepresented STEM Faculty in the Global Knowledge Society

Symposium Track: Health

Norovirus: The Modern Scourge of Food and Family

Symposium Track: Policy

Redesigning the Governance of Science, Technology, and Innovation After Japan's Earthquake

Symposium Track: Food

The Compound Effects of Climate Variability and Climate Change on Food Security

Symposium Track: Communication

The Roles of Citizen Science and Serious Leisure in Public Engagement with Science

Symposium Track: Collaboration

Toward a Global Lab: Building Science Capacity in Developing Countries

Symposium Track: Discovery

Understanding Cellular Machinery Through X-Ray Imaging

1:00 PM-2:30 PM

Symposium Track: Communication

Community-Engaged Scholarship: Co-Producing Knowledge for Societal Impact

Symposium Track: Culture

Culture and Controversy in Science Education Engagement

Symposium Track: Energy

Energy Storage for Integration of Renewable Energy Sources into the Power Grid

Symposium Track: Discovery

Things that Go Bump: The Latest Discoveries in Particle Physics

1:30 PM-4:30 PM

Symposium Track: Collaboration

Analogy in Applications of Mathematics and Statistics to Other Disciplines

Symposium Track: Communication

Beyond Climate Models: Rethinking How To Envision the Future with Climate Change

Symposium Track: Policy

Can Community Models Help Solve Global Challenges?

Symposium Track: Climate

Climate Change and Human Evolution: Problems and Prospects

Symposium Track: Collaboration

Documenting a Changing Ocean Through International Multidisciplinary Collaborations

Symposium Track: Energy

Food, Feed, and Fuel: Optimizing Economic and Sustainable Biofuel Production

Symposium Track: Energy

Hydraulic Fracturing of Shale: Building Consensus Out of Controversy

Symposium Track: Development

Marine Biological Diversity: Who Owns the Greatest Reservoir of Unexplored Diversity?

Symposium Track: Education

New Findings in Broadening Participation Research in STEM Education

Symposium Track: Development

Searching for the Right Space for Innovation

Symposium Track: Energy

The Climate and Health Impacts of Cooking with Biomass

Symposium Track: Culture

The Effects of Early Experience on Lifelong Functioning: Commitment and Resilience

Symposium Track: Health

The One Health Vision: From Institutional Support to Local Practice

Symposium Track: Environment

Toward Stabilization of Net Global Carbon Dioxide Levels

Symposium Track: Environment

Water Security: Multidisciplinary Responses to a Global Challenge

3:00 PM-4:30 PM

Symposium Track: Development

Making Science Work for Development: Case Studies and Best Practices

Symposium Track: Communication

Sharing Science with the Public Worldwide: Resources for Informal Education Outreach

Symposium Track: Health

Stem Cell and Cell Therapy Approaches to Understanding Cell Injury and Wound Healing

Saturday, February 18, 2012

8:00 AM-9:30 AM

Symposium Track: Information

Data to Knowledge to Action: Computational Science in a Global Knowledge Society

Symposium Track: Education

Demand-Driven Science: Engaging the Future Generation in Solving Tomorrow's Problems

Symposium Track: Culture

Early Career Scientists in a Flat World

Symposium Track: Policy

Exploding Myths on Reactor Security, Harm Reduction, and Genetically Modified Organisms

Symposium Track: Collaboration

Global Knowledge Collaborations: The Atlas of Islamic World Science and Innovation

Symposium Track: Climate

Indigenous Perspectives on Climate Change

Symposium Track: Education

Teaching Science Through Language

Symposium Track: Environment

The Costs of Conservation: Impacts on Coastal Livelihoods, Health, and Equity

Symposium Track: Culture

The Social Consequences of Mass Imprisonment in the United States

8:30 AM-11:30 AM

Symposium Track: Health

Aging: Cells to Society

Symposium Track: Food

Bringing a Global Plant Perspective to Issues that Threaten Humankind

Symposium Track: Health

Comprehensive Approaches for HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control

Symposium Track: Environment

Historical Biocomplexity in the North Pacific Ocean: Lessons from the Past

Symposium Track: Development

Make It Fit: Supporting a Decent Standard of Living Within Planetary Boundaries

Symposium Track: Environment

Predicting the Future Ocean: The Nereus Program

Symposium Track: Discovery

Quantum Computing: Current Status and Future Prospects

Symposium Track: Collaboration

The Earth Microbiome Project: Modeling the Microbial Planet

10:00 AM-11:30 AM

Symposium Track: Policy

Assessing Assessments: How Do They Work for Environmental Policy?

Symposium Track: Collaboration

Coordinating, Learning, and Sharing Best Practices Among Scientific Diaspora Networks

Symposium Track: Education

Excellence Gaps in K-12 Education: Race, Gender, and Poverty and High Achievement

Symposium Track: Policy

Global Challenges to Peer Review of Scientific Publications

Symposium Track: Culture

Globalizing Indigenous Architecture: The Power of Tradition, Providing for the Future

Symposium Track: Education

Interdisciplinary Science: Teaching the Key Points of Integration

Symposium Track: Culture

Late Talkers in Any Language: Finding Children at Risk Worldwide

Symposium Track: Collaboration

Particle Physics: Pushing Back the Frontiers of Global Collaboration

Symposium Track: Environment

Responding to and Recovering from Catastrophic Events: The Road to Resilience

1:00 PM-2:30 PM

Symposium Track: Education

Beyond Evolution: Religious Questions in Science Classrooms

Symposium Track: Food

Do Public Health and Food Safety Policies and Regulations Impede Innovation?

Symposium Track: Communication

Everyone's an Expert but Who Is Listening?

Symposium Track: Communication

Using Pop-Culture Icons To Slip Science into the Mainstream

1:30 PM-4:30 PM

Symposium Track: Environment

Acid-Washed Genes and Altered Ecosystems: Biological Tales of Ocean Acidification

Symposium Track: Health

Autism: Genetic, Epigenetic, and Environmental Factors Influencing Neural Networks

Symposium Track: Discovery

Autophagy: An Emerging Therapeutic Target in Human Disease

Symposium Track: Education

Connecting Education and Research on Retention in Engineering

Symposium Track: Culture

Constructing a Human World Fit for Nature

Symposium Track: Food

Emerging Risks in the Global Food System

Symposium Track: Food

Enhancing Information Flow for Global Food Security in the Face of Climate Change

Symposium Track: Health

Has the Women's Health Initiative Hormone Therapy Trial Helped Improve Women's Health?

Symposium Track: Information

Innovating Innovation: Open Source Successes for Neglected Diseases and Beyond

Symposium Track: Collaboration

Quantum Information Science and Technology: A Global Perspective

Symposium Track: Development

The Future of Mineral Resource Dependence in the 21st Century

Symposium Track: Environment

The Ocean Health Index: Diagnosis for a Crowded Blue Planet

Symposium Track: Collaboration

Transcending Interdisciplinary Research Barriers: Best Practices for Mobilizing Knowledge

Symposium Track: Information

Web Surveillance: Fighting Terrorism and Infectious Diseases

3:00 PM-4:30 PM

Symposium Track: Policy

Harm Reduction: Policy Change To Reduce the Global Toll of Smoking-Related Disease

Symposium Track: Discovery

NanoCellulose: An Abundant, Sustainable, Versatile Biopolymer

Symposium Track: Education

Online 21st Century Science Assessments

Symposium Track: Environment

Swimming in Sick Seas

Sunday, February 19, 2012

8:00 AM-9:30 AM

Symposium Track: Information

Accelerating Scientific Progress Through Public Availability of Research Data

Symposium Track: Information

Applying Assistive Technology To Improve Quality of Life

Symposium Track: Information

Architectural Precautions in Networked Networks

Symposium Track: Culture

Gesture, Language, and Performance: Aspects of Embodiment

Symposium Track: Education

Interconnected Communities for Biological Research: Integrating Undergraduates

Symposium Track: Climate

Non–Carbon Dioxide Greenhouse Gases and Aerosols: Climate Science Information for Decisions

Symposium Track: Collaboration

Population, Development, and Environment: Solutions for Global Challenges

Symposium Track: Policy

Scientific Integrity Reform in the U.S. Administration: Pitfalls, Progress, and Plans

Symposium Track: Policy

The Global Quest for Excellence

8:30 AM-11:30 AM

Symposium Track: Development

Anthropology and Engineering: Technological Innovations in Global Health

Symposium Track: Energy

Can a Smarter Grid Slow Down Climate Change While Accelerating Energy Independence?

Symposium Track: Climate

Climate Solutions: The Challenges of Getting to 350

Symposium Track: Communication

Globalization Then and Now: Scale, Complexity, and Communication of Sustainability

Symposium Track: Education

Moving (Actively) from Vision to Change in Undergraduate Biology Education

Symposium Track: Culture

Neuroscience and Criminal Justice in the 21st Century: A Cross-Country View

Symposium Track: Collaboration

Physical Sciences Approaches to Cancer: Growing Interdisciplinary Collaborations

Symposium Track: Environment

The Magnitude 9.0 Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami: Significance for Japan and the World

Symposium Track: Environment

Vulnerability and Adaptation to Oil Spills

10:00 AM-11:30 AM

Symposium Track: Health

Genomics and Cancer: A Global Challenge Needing Global Solutions

Symposium Track: Information

Human Rights: Quantitative Methods in the Age of Information and Communication

Symposium Track: Culture

Making Visible the Invisible

Symposium Track: Collaboration

New Concepts in Integrating Arts and Science Research for a Global Knowledge Society

Symposium Track: Food

The Role of Information and Communications Technology in Making Sense of Global Food Prices

Symposium Track: Health

Toward the Control of HIV and AIDS Through Comprehensive Treatment as Prevention

Symposium Track: Food

Underreported Yet Overoptimistic: Fisheries Catch Reconstructions and Food Security

Symposium Track: Information

Whole-Earth Simulations for Decision-Making: Realistic Goal or Pipe Dream?

1:00 PM-2:30 PM

Symposium Track: Policy

Changing Paradigms in the Delivery of Health Care in the United States

Symposium Track: Discovery

Chemical Evolution: From Prebiotic Soup to Intelligent Molecules of the Future

Symposium Track: Collaboration

HUBzero: Building Collaboratories for Research on a Global Scale

Symposium Track: Discovery

Pulsars: Astronomical Gifts that Keep on Giving

Symposium Track: Food

Sub-Saharan Africa: Livestock Science Provides New Hope and Faces New Challenges

Symposium Track: Energy

The True Costs of Coal

Symposium Track: Information

Updating the International System of Units: The Foundation for Science and Technology

Symposium Track: Energy

­­­Low-Carbon Innovation for an Electricity-Dependent World

1:30 PM-4:30 PM

Symposium Track: Energy

Can Science and the Public Collaborate on the Global Future of Nuclear Waste?

Symposium Track: Climate

Climate Change and the Long-Term Sustainability of Human Societies

Symposium Track: Collaboration

Global Knowledge: The Challenge of Diversity and Localism

Symposium Track: Communication

Innovations in Reducing International Knowledge Isolation

Symposium Track: Information

Is There Life Beyond Moore's Law?

Symposium Track: Culture

Scientific Humanists and Humanistic Scientists:Flattening the World with Anthropology

Symposium Track: Environment

Sustaining People and Oceans: Governance in Marine Social-Ecological Systems

Symposium Track: Health

The Mouth as a Global Window to Systemic Health

Symposium Track: Education

The Role of Standards in Achieving Science Literacy: A Multi-Country Perspective

3:00 PM-4:30 PM

Symposium Track: Climate

Adapting to Climate Change: The Case of Bangladesh

Symposium Track: Policy

Declaration of Rights for Cetaceans: Ethical and Policy Implications of Intelligence

Symposium Track: Discovery

Excursions into the Mathematics of Medical Imaging

Symposium Track: Policy

International Comparisons of Research and Development Policy

Symposium Track: Information

Leveling the Global Playing Field: Global Inferences from Reliable Global Samples

Symposium Track: Communication

Perspectives from Science Media Centers: Should Scientists Bother with Media?

Symposium Track: Discovery

Quantum Information Technologies: A New Era for Global Communication

Symposium Track: Food

The Next Agricultural Revolution: Emerging Production Methods for Meat Alternatives

Monday, February 20, 2012

9:45 AM-11:15 AM

Symposium Track: Energy

Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage: A Global Solution to a Global Challenge

Symposium Track: Health

Defeating Alzheimer's Disease To Avoid the Looming Worldwide Health Crisis

Symposium Track: Discovery

Illuminating the Obesity Epidemic with Mathematics

Symposium Track: Discovery

Isotopes for Science and Medicine: Rare, Radioactive, and Useful

Symposium Track: Education

Making Better Scientists: Philosophy of Science in Practice

Symposium Track: Education

More than a Field Trip: Developing Student Leaders To Address Global Challenges

Symposium Track: Climate

The Future of Ecological Communities Under Climate Change: No Analog?

Symposium Track: Health

Winning: Superbugs or Surveillance and Science?

9:45 AM-12:45 PM

Symposium Track: Health

Curing Spinal Cord Injury: The Need for Global Collaboration

Symposium Track: Communication

Misreporting Fukushima: A Failure of Science Journalism with Global Repercussions?

Symposium Track: Policy

Whole-Ocean Economics: Global Fisheries Analysis Reveals Potential for Policy Action