St. Louis February 24, 2011 Gerald Early, Cochair of the Academy s Council and Merle Kling Professor of Modern Letters and Director of the Center for the Humanities at Washington University in St. Louis, with John Dubinsky, President and CEO of Westmoreland Associates, LLC, and a member of the Board of Trustees of Washington University in St. Louis, at a reception and dinner hosted by Chancellor Mark Wrighton and Mrs. Risa Zwerling Wrighton at their home. The following afternoon, Early moderated the panel discussion Race in the Age of Obama, the topic of the Winter 2011 issue of Dædalus, which he guest edited. To read the panel presentations, see page 12 in this issue. Korina Jocson, Assistant Professor of Education at Washington University in St. Louis and a contributor to the Dædalus volume, with James Wertsch, Marshall S. Snow Professor in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis Kenneth Ludmerer, Professor of Medicine at Washington University School of Medicine, and John McDonnell, Chairman of the Board (retired) of McDonnell Douglas Corporation, talked with Mark Wrighton, Chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis. Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, Summer 2011 41
New York City May 4, 2011 Academy Trust member Kenneth Wallach (Central National- Gottesman Inc.) and his wife, Susan Wallach, welcomed a group of New York-area Fellows to their home for a small reception. Oscar Tang (New York City), Susan Wallach, and Sara Lee Schupf (New York City) Theodore Rogers (American Industrial Partners), Elizabeth Barlow Rogers (Foundation for Landscape Studies), and Kenneth Wallach Sarah Leibowitz (Rockefeller University), Martin Leibowitz (Morgan Stanley), David Sabatini (New York University School of Medicine), and David McLaughlin (New York University) John Whitehead (New York City) and Helene Kaplan (Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP) 42 Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, Summer 2011
Washington, D.C. May 18, 2011 Martha Finnemore, a Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington University, and Melvin Kohn, the William D. and Robin Mayer Distinguished Professor and Professor of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University, attended a small reception for D.C.-area Fellows at the Cosmos Club in Washington, D.C. Academy President Leslie C. Berlowitz welcomed James A. Leach (left), Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, and Earl A. Rusty Powell III, Director of the National Gallery of Art, to the reception. From left: Ralph Cicerone, President of the National Academy of Sciences, talked with Thomas Lovejoy, Biodiversity Chair at the Heinz Center for Science, Economics, and the Environment and University Professor at George Mason University, and Robert W. Fri, Visiting Scholar and Senior Fellow Emeritus at Resources for the Future. Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, Summer 2011 43
Boston May 23, 2011 The Academy, together with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, honored music director, conductor, and composer John Williams (second from left) at a program held at Boston s Symphony Hall. Mark Volpe, the Eunice and Julian Cohen Managing Director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, joined Academy President Leslie C. Berlowitz and Louis W. Cabot, Chair of the Academy s Board and Trust, in organizing the event. Williams paused for a photograph with Nicholas Zervas, a Life Trustee of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and a member of the Academy s Development Committee. During the evening s program, Williams signed the Academy s Book of Members. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy in 2009. To celebrate Williams s artistry, violinist Victor Romanul (left), the Besse Pappas Chair at the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and violist Michael Zaretsky performed Duo concertante, a work that Williams composed for them. The pair premiered the work at Tanglewood in 2007 and released a recording of it and other duos for violin and viola in 2008. 44 Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, Summer 2011
Chicago June 8, 2011 Robert L. Gallucci, President of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, participated in the panel discussion Prospects and Challenges for the Global Nuclear Future: After Fukushima at an Academy Stated Meeting held at the University of Chicago. Other panelists included Steven E. Miller, Director of the International Security Program at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University and Coleader of the Academy s Global Nuclear Future Initiative, Mark Peters, Deputy Director for Programs at Argonne National Laboratory, and Amir Shahkarami, CEO of Exelon Nuclear Partners and Nuclear Development and Senior Vice President of Exelon Generation, LLC. Robert Rosner (not pictured), William E. Wrather Distinguished Service Professor in the Departments of Astronomy and Astrophysics and Physics at the University of Chicago and Senior Advisor to the Academy s Global Nuclear Future Initiative, moderated the discussion. A poster session with nuclear experts from Argonne National Laboratory Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, Summer 2011 45