Lectures

April 10, 2008
Bridges to the Future: A Vision for Infrastructure in the 21st Century
Hosted by Popular Mechanics and the National Science Foundation
Content type: Webcast Conference (originally webcast live)

February 26, 2007
United States Opening Ceremony for International Polar Year 2007-2008
Hosted by the National Academies and the National Science Foundation
Content type: Opening Ceremony (originally webcast live)

April 12, 2006
"The Birth and Death of Languages"
Dr. David W. Lightfoot
Assistant Director for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences
National Science Foundation
Content type: Lecture

March 8, 2006
"Innovation: A 21st Century Imperative"
Dr. Charles M. Vest
MIT President Emeritus
Content type: Lecture

January 25, 2006
A New Path to New Earths
Discovery of small, rocky, extrasolar world suggests such planets may be common
Content type: Media Briefing (originally webcast live)

December 8, 2005
The Challenged America Crew and the 2005 Trans-Pacific Yacht Race
Urban Miyares
National Press Club
Content type: Media Briefing

September 16, 2005
Robots: An Exhibition of U.S. Automatons from the Leading Edge of Research
Content type: Media Briefing (originally webcast live)

June 15, 2005
Documenting Endangered Languages
NSF
Content type: Lecture/Presentation

June 13, 2005
Astronomers Announce the Most Earth-Like Planet Yet Found Outside the Solar System
Content type: Media Briefing (originally webcast live)

March 24, 2005
"The History of the Universe in 60 Seconds or Less"
Dr. Eric Schulman
Content type: Lecture/Presentation

November 15, 2004
Grand Opening of the George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES)
Content type: Media Briefing (originally webcast live)

September 21, 2004
"Storytelling in Science: Honesty, Imagination and Ethics "
Professor Roald Hoffman
Cornell University
Content type: Lecture

April 30, 2004
"Improbable Research Seminar 2004"
Marc Abrahams
Editor and co-founder of the science humor magazine, Annals of Improbable Research
Content type: Lecture/Presentation

April 19, 2004
Distinguished Lecture
"Do General Relativity Principles Imply Experimentally Testable Changes in Quantum Mechanics?"
Sir Roger Penrose
Oxford and Penn State Universities
Content type: Lecture

April 16, 2004
Science Communicators Lecture Series
"Communicating Engineering and Technology to the General Public"
William S. Hammack
Associate Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Content type: Lecture

February 26, 2004
"A Lost World: Two Previously Unknown Dinosaurs Discovered in Antarctica"
Content tye: Media Briefing (originally webcast live)

February 23, 2004
Beyond September 11th: An Account of Post-Disaster Research
NSF
Content type: Media Briefing

January 28, 2004
"GeoClimate: Probing Earth's Deep-Time Climate Archives"
Lynn Soreghan
Content type: Lecture

November 13, 2003
"Reading between the lines: Imaging the Lost Writings of Archimedes"
Keith T. Knox
Senior Imaging Scientist, Boeing LTS
Air Force Research Laboratory, Kihei, Hawaii
Content type: Lecture

October 20, 2003
Distinguished Lecture
"Cosmic Inflation and the Accelerating Universe"
Alan H. Guth
V.F. Weisskopf Professor of Physics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Content type: Lecture

October 7-8, 2003
"The Universe from the Ground Up"
Ground-based Astronomy in the 21st Century
A National Science Foundation Sponsored Symposium
Archived webcasts and presentations now available
Content type: Lecture/Presentation (originally webcast live)

February 26, 2003
Shackleton's Legacy: "Dinosaurs On Ice: Jurassic Dinosaurs from Antarctica"
Lecture by William R. Hammer
Augustana College
Content type: Lecture (originally webcast live)

January 30, 2003
John H. Chafee Memorial Lecture on Science and the Environment
"Obstinate Issues, Sophisticated Solutions:Environmental Science and Education for a New Age"
Dr. Rita R. Colwell
Former Director, National Science Foundation
Content type: Lecture (originally webcast live)

October 28, 2002
"Envisioning Science: The Design and Craft of the Science Image"
Lecture and Exhibit by Felice Frankel
Science Photographer and MIT Research Scientist
Content type: Lecture (originally webcast live)

May 28, 2002
Research at Lake Vostok
International Panel of Scientists at the American Geophysical Union 2002 Spring Meeting
Washington, DC
Content type: Media Briefing (originally webcast live)

March 19, 2002
Symposium
"Small Wonders: Exploring the Vast Potential of Nanoscience"
Speakers:
Welcome and Introduction
Dr. Rita Colwell
Director, National Science Foundation
Keynote Address
Dr. Richard E. Smalley, Ph.D., Nobel Laureate, Chemistry
Gene & Norman Hackerman Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Physics, Rice University
Content type: Lecture/Presentation (originally webcast live)

January 31, 2002
"Terrorism and the Economy: What We Know and What We Need to Know"
R. Glenn Hubbard
Chairman, Council of Economic Advisers
Content type: Lecture

June 5, 2001
Distinguished Lecture
"Superstrings: Einstein's Dream at the New Millennium"
Dr. Sylvester James Gates
John S. Toll Professor of Physics
University of Maryland
Content type: Lecture