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ZANVIL A. COHN FORUM ON HEALTH AFFAIRS
Science and the City
Ellis Rubinstein
Chief Executive Officer
New York Academy of Sciences
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Monday, December 8, 2003 5:00 - 5:30 p.m. Reception 5:30 - 6:30 p.m. Lecture and Discussion |
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Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Dining Room |
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Since becoming CEO of the academy in November 2002, Ellis Rubinstein has developed new programs to re-energize the 186-year-old institution. Rubinstein and his staff are creating an “intellectual core facility” for New York. To serve science and our city, the academy is partnering with Rockefeller and New York City’s other scientific institutions in a series of novel initiatives. Rubinstein will describe those initiatives when he speaks about “Science and the City”on December 8. One new program, the New York Science Alliance for Graduate Students and Post Docs, has involved 15 of the city’s universities, teaching hospitals and independent research labs in an unprecedented partnership that sponsors membership for over 5,000 young investigators in return for a series of career-mentoring events developed by the academy. The Frontiers of Science Program is turning the academy into a “science salon” for all of New York’s researchers, involving them in seminars in the hottest fields of science. Innovative Web projects are increasing the global reach of the academy. According to Rubinstein, all of this is beginning to provide a unique benefit for New York as a city. Rubinstein came to the academy after more than 13 years with the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), where he served as the editor of Science magazine from 1993 to 2002. He has also been news editor and deputy editor for that publication. As the editor of Science, Rubinstein launched innovative online services such as a daily news service, ScienceNow, and Science’s Next Wave, a unique career-mentoring Web site involving thousands of graduate students and postdocs. He also initiated a novel Web-based service called SAGE KE (Science of Aging Knowledge Environment) and developed the first national license to be paid for by the Chinese government for access to Science Online. During his career as a science journalist and editor, he produced landmark articles on topics as diverse as AIDS, the origins of modern humans, the cause of the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island, and the science and technology of war and peace. Three times, his work was honored by National Magazine Awards, the Pulitzer Prizes of the magazine industry. The Cohn Forum is a series of colloquia on issues in health and biomedicine. Admission is free. No registration required. For more information, please call Ms. Gloria Phipps at (212) 327-8967.
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