Carnegie's Capital Science Lectures and Documentaries

2002-2003 Schedule

All Carnegie Science lectures are free and open to the public. Seating is strictly limited to availability. If we receive two weeks prior notice, lectures will be sign interpreted for the hearing-impaired.

If you cannot attend in person, many lectures will be transmitted live on the Internet. Check frequently the schedule below for updates. " " indicates a link to an archived lecture recording. Because viewing requires QuickTime, you should test for the appropriate software.

For recorded information on the 2002-2003 Capital Science Lectures, please call (202) 328-6988, or e-mail: ecarpenter@ciw.edu

A PDF (Adobe Acrobat viewer required) of the brochure describing the current lecture season is available for download (85 KB).

October 22, 2002 - 6:30 pm - streaming video
John McKinney
Laboratory of Infection Biology, The Rockefeller University
Persisting Problems in Tuberculosis

November 19, 2002 6:30 pm - streaming video
Marilyn Fogel
Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution
Energy Flow in Tropical Mangroves

December 9, 2002 6:30 pm 6:30 pm
Washington Film Premiere of Norwegian Documentary on Vilhelm Bjerknes:
The Weather's Face: How Meteorology became a Science

January 16, 2003 6:30 pm
Washington Film Premiere of South African Documentary
Cosmic Africa

February 11, 2003 6:30 pm - - streaming video
Eric Lander
Director, Center for Genome Research, Whitehead Institute and MIT
The Human Genome and Beyond

March 25, 2003 6:30 pm - - streaming video
Kip Thorne
Department of Physics, California Institute of Technology
Probing the Universe with Gravitational Waves

April 8, 2003 6:30 pm - - streaming video
Sally and Bennett Shaywitz
Department of Pediatrics, Yale University
Overcoming Dyslexia

April 22, 2003 6:30 pm - - streaming video
Peter and Rosemary Grant
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University
Evolution of Darwin’s Finches

May 27, 2003 6:30 pm - - streaming video
Jennifer Doudna
Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley (HHMI Investigator)
The Twisted World of RNA: One Molecule, Many Functions