December 14, 2001
Centennial Symposium
Celebration of Excellence in Clinical Research
Caspary Auditorium
December 14, 2001: 1:00 - 5:00 p.m.

November 27, 2001
Readings and panel discussion
The Best American Science and Nature Writing
Caspary Auditorium
November 27, 2001: Doors open at 6:30 p.m.

October 23-24, 2001
Centennial Symposium
Celebration of Excellence in Neuroscience
Caspary Auditorium
October 23: 1:00 - 5:00 p.m.
October 24: 9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

October 12 , 2001
William H. Stein Memorial Lecture
Antibiotics Targeting Ribosomes
Ada Yonath, Ph.D.
Director, Kimmelman Center for Macromolecular Assembly
and the Mazer Center for Structural Biology;
Martin S. Kimmel Professor,
Department of Structural Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science
Caspary Auditorium.
3:15 p.m. Tea
3:45 p.m. Lecture

October 4, 2001
Fourth International Conference on Fats and Oil Consumption
Prevention of Childhood Obesity and Related Chronic Diseases
Caspary Auditorium
7 a.m. - 5 p.m.

October 1, 2001
Centennial Lecture on Science and Society
Zanvil A. Cohn Forum on Health Affairs
What's Happening to Science?
Donald Kennedy, Ph.D.
Bing Professor of Environmental Science and
President Emeritus, Stanford University
Editor-in-Chief, Science
Caspary Auditorium
Reception: 5:00 - 5:30 p.m.
Lecture and Discussion : 5:30 - 6:30 p.m.

September 21, 2001
Responding to Terrorism: How We Are Prepared
Special Assistant to the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and Former Director, Office of Emergency Management, City of New York
Jerome M. Hauer
Caspary Auditorium
2:30 p.m.

June 15, 2001
Symposium Featuring the Centennial Honorary Degree Recipients
Launching a New Century of Discovery
Caspary Auditorium.
9:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m. Morning Session
2:00 p.m.-3:15 p.m. Afternoon Session

June 1, 2001
Friday Lecture
The Cellular DNA Damage Response: Diverse Functions Converge
John H. Petrini,
Associate Professor of Medical Genetics at the University of Wisconsin
Caspary Auditorium.
3:15 p.m. Tea
3:45 p.m. Lecture

May 30, 2001
Rufus Cole Memorial Lecture
Platelet Integrin Receptors in Blood and Vascular Diseases
Barry Coller,
Murray M. Rosenberg Professor of Medicine and Chairman,
Samuel Bronfman Department of Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Chief of Medical Service, Mount Sinai Hospital
Caspary Auditorium.
12:00 p.m. Lecture

May 3, 2001
Centennial Symposium
The Henry G. Kunkel Society
Immunology in the 21st Century
Caspary Auditorium.
8:15 a.m.- 3:15 p.m. Symposium
3:45-5:00 p.m. The Henry G. Kunkel Society Lecture

April 27, 2001
Ernst A. H. Friedheim Memorial Lecture
The Mechanism of Uridine Insertion/Deletion RNA Editing in Trypanosome Mitochondria
Larry Simpson,
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Professor, Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics
University of California, Los Angeles, School of Medicine
Caspary Auditorium.
3:15 p.m. Tea
3:45 p.m. Lecture

April 20, 2001
Friday Lecture
Cellular Targets of Glycopeptide Antibiotics
Daniel Kahne,
Professor of Chemistry, Princeton University.
Caspary Auditorium.
3:15 p.m. Tea
3:45 p.m. Lecture

April 17, 2001
Neuroimmunology Symposium
Mind-Body Interactions: An Exploration of the Relationship between Stress Hormones and Immune Function
Benjamin and Irma G. Weiss Research Building, 17th Floor
8:00-8:30 a.m. Coffee
9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Morning Sessions
1:00-5:30 p.m. Afternoon Sessions

April 13, 2001
Philip Levine Memorial Lecture
Cell Biology of Antigen Presentation
Hidde Ploegh,
Professor, Department of Pathology
Director, Graduate Program in Immunology
Harvard Medical School
Caspary Auditorium.
3:15 p.m. Tea
3:45 p.m. Lecture

April 6, 2001
Second Annual Richard M. Furlaud Distinguished Lecture
Toward a Chemical Genetics
Stuart L. Schreiber, Ph.D.,
Investigator, HHMI Morris Loeb Professor, Harvard University
Caspary Auditorium.
3:15 p.m. Tea
3:45 p.m. Lecture

April 3, 4, & 5, 2001
A Series of Lectures by Dr. Sydney Brenner
Computational Biology in the Next Decade
Dr. Sydney Brenner,
Distinguished Professor, The Salk Institute, La Jolla, Californiae
Caspary Auditorium.
April 3, 12:00 p.m.
April 4, 11:00 a.m.
April 5, 12:00 p.m.

March 30, 2001
Centennial Symposium
The Biology of Drug Abuse and Addiction: More Tangled than "Traffic"
Caspary Auditorium.
9:00-9:30 a.m. Coffee
9:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Morning Session
2:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. Afternoon Session

March 29, 2001
Centennial Symposium
The Biology of Drug Abuse and Addiction: More Tangled than "Traffic"
Bringing the Power of Science to Bear on Drug Abuse and Addiction
Alan Leshner, Ph.D.,
Director, National Institute on Drug Abuse
Caspary Auditorium.
6:00 p.m.

March 27, 2001
Lewis Thomas Prize: Honoring the Scientist as Poet
A Letter to Thoreau
Dr. Edward O. Wilson,
Pulitzer Prize-winning author of On Human Nature (1978) and The Ants (1991) and Pellegrino University Research Professor at Harvard University 2000
Recipient of The Lewis Thomas Prize: Honoring the Scientist as Poet
Caspary Auditorium.
5:30 p.m. Lecture
Reception to follow

March 12, 2001
Zanvil A. Cohn Forum on Health Affairs
Stem Cells: Persons or Therapies in Embryo?
Steven H. Holtzman,
Chief Business Officer Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

February 27, 2001
Centennial Event / 92nd Street Y. Lecture
Cracking the Code of Life
Genes, DNA and You: The Impact of the Human Genome Project
Keeping Time with Biology
Michael Young,
Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Genetics, The Rockefeller University
Caspary Auditorium.
7:00 p.m.

January 26, 2001
Centennial Lectures on Science and Society
Raymond and Beverly Sackler Lecture
Crowded at the Summit: The Future of Infectious Disease
Joshua Lederberg, Ph.D.
President Emeritus and Professor Emeritus
Raymond and Beverly Sackler Foundation Scholar

January 22, 2001
Zanvil A. Cohn Forum on Health Affairs
Successful Aging
John W. Rowe, M.D.
President and CEO
Aetna Inc.

January 19, 2001
Infectious Disease Centennial Lecture
Mycolic Acids of Mycobacterium tuberculosis:
An Achilles Heel or a Neutralizing Weapon?
William R. Jacobs Jr., Ph.D.
Professor, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

January 9 , 2001
Centennial Event / 92nd Street Y. Lecture
Cracking the Code of Life
Genes, DNA and You: The Impact of the Human Genome Project
After the Genome: Tailor-made Drugs
Stephen K. Burley,
Richard M. and Isabel P. Furlaud Professor,
Head of the Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics
Investigator for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Caspary Auditorium.
7:00 p.m.