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Diversity in Science in a Global Economy (P,G) * Swimming Against the Tide: African American Girls and Science Education (S) Nicholas Hud, Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology The Scientific Questfor the Origin of Life <P,G) * Experimental Investigations of the Origin and Early Evolution of Life (P,G,S) * A Self-Assembly Approach to the Origin of RNA (G,S) Tomás Jiménez, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Stanford University The Other Side of Assimilation: Immigration and the Changing American Experience (P,G,S) * Immigration and the Making of Mexican America (P,G,S) Isaac Krauss, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Brandéis University Combining Organic Synthesis and Directed Evolution to Design Carbohydrate HIV Vaccines (S) * Designing Carbohydrate HIV Vaccines Using Molecular Evolution (G) * Seeking an HIV Vaccine: What do Sugars Have to Do with It? (P) Patricia McAnany, Kenan Eminent Professor of Anthropology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Leaving Classic Maya Cities: Investigating the Fragility of Political Structures (P,G) * Maya Cultural Heritage: How Archaeologists and Indigenous Communities Engage the Past (P,G) * The Archaeology ofHybridity at Tahcabo, Yucatán, México (P,G) Peter MacLeish, Chair and Professor, Department of Neurobiology, Director of Neuroscience Institute, Morehouse School of Medicine The Study of Adult Neurons in vitro (G,S) * Ion-Clumnel Compartments in Vertebrate Photoreceptors (S) * Expanding the Capacity to Perform Cutting-Edge, Sustainable Biomedical Research in the U.S. (P) Beth Middleton, Research Ecologist, Wetland and Aquatic Research Center, U.S. Geological Survey Wetlands and Climate Change: The Reconnection of People and the Land (P,G) * The Wind and the Salt: Reassembly of Coastal Vegetation Folloiving Hurricanes (P,G,S) * Restoration of Wetlands After Farming and Flood pulsing (P,G,S) * Wetland Restoration and Management in a Future ofClwnging Climate (P,G,S) Bryant C. Nelson, Staff Research Chemist, National Institute of Standards and Technology Fundamental Interactions of Engineered Nanoparticles and Nanomaterials with DNA (P,G,S) * Inhibition of DNA Repair Protein Activity by Gold (Au55) Nanoclusters (G,S1 * The Inhibition of Free Radical Induced DNA Damage by Both Single- and Multi-wall Carbon Nanotubes (G,S) Karen K. Oates, Professor of Biochemistry and the Dean of Arts and Sciences, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Bringing Civic Engagement into the Science Classroom (G,S) * How People Learn and Creativity of Science (P,G) * Boosting Innovation: An Ecological Approach for Scientists and Engineers (G,S) * The Obligation of Knowledge (P,G) Jim O'Connor, Research Geologist, U.S.\n V. Ramana, Associate Research Scholar, Program in Science and Global Security, Princeton University Fukushima and the Future of Nuclear Energy (P,G) * Nuclear Energy in China and India: Can Ambitions Meet Reality? (P,G) * Nuclear Weapons in India: History and Risks (P,G) * Assessing Risk Assessment: Nuclear Regulation and Reactor Safety (S) Paula Rayman, Professor of Sociology, University of Massachusetts Lowell; Gender Consultant, United States Institute of Peace Can You Work and Have a Life?