"401K and IRA Retirement Plans" - Peter R. Orszag, Joseph A. Pechman Senior Fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution
"Aeronautics at the Library of Congress: Forty Years of One User's Experience" - Tom D. Crouch is the senior curator of the Division of Aeronautics at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum
"Ambient Findability" - Peter Morville, president and founder of Semantic Studios, a leading information architecture, user experience and findability consultancy; co-founder of the Information Architecture Institute
"Animal Emotion" - Dr. Michael Fox, "The Animal Doctor."
"American Anthrax," presented by Jeanne Guillemin, Senior Advisor, Security Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
"Apples & Pears: The Body Shape Solution for Weight Loss and Wellness" - Dr. Marie Savard, a physician and women's health expert
"Astrobiology: Life in Space." - Dr. Daniel (Danny) Glavin, Astrobiologist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. More information about Dr. Glavin can be found at http://ael.gsfc.nasa.gov/ael_bio_glavin.html.
"Avoiding the Fate of the Mayans" NASA presentation series. The Maya civilization, at its peak, was one of the most densely populated and culturally dynamic societies in the world. But after flourishing for a thousand years, it abruptly disappeared. Thanks to Landsat satellite data and climate models, NASA archaeologist Tom Sever has gained insights into the event known as the Maya Collapse. His findings can inform our lives today
"Bait & Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream" - Barbara Ehrenreich, co-editor of Global Woman : Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy
"Barbecue: A History of the World's Oldest Culinary Art." - Steven Raichlen
" Beyond Hubble: the James Webb Space Telescope" - Amber Straughn is a research astrophysicist with the Observational Cosmology Project at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
"Big Ice Sheets Doing Big Things: Why it's a Big Deal." - Bob Bindschadler, Chief Scientist, Hydrospheric and Biospheric Sciences Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
"Blacks in Advertising Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow". - Dr. Foxworth, author and professor
"Book Trends" - Dr. Albert Greco, author of "The Book Industry" and is a Professor of Marketing, and of Communications and Media Management at the Fordham University Graduate School of Business.
"Charles Darwin, Geologist." - For the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth, Sandra Herbert, one of the world's leading authorities on Darwin, discussed her book. In it, she explores how geology changed Darwin and how Darwin changed science.
"The Cheetah: A Race for Survival. - Dr. Laurie Marker is the Founder and Executive Director of the Cheetah Conservation Fund, headquartered in the Republic of Namibia.
"Chicago Victory Gardens: Yesterday and Tomorrow." - Presented by LaManda Joy, award winning gardener, blogger and founder of The Peterson Garden Project in Chicago. The Peterson Garden is Chicago's largest organic community allotment vegetable garden and was part of an original WWII Victory Garden from 1942-45.
"Clinical Trials in Glaucoma: What Have We Learned." - Dr. Higginbotham, chair, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Maryland
"Color in the Herb Garden" - Jim Adams, curator of the National Herb Garden at the National Arboretum
"Commercializing university research - Threats and opportunities - The Oxford University model" - Experts comment on remarks given by Tim Cook and Michael Hockaday of Oxford University.
"Copy This: Lessons from a Hyperactive Dyslexic Who Turned a Bright Idea into One of America's Best Companies" - Paul Orfalea, founder of Kinkos
"Dawn of Space Age" - Dr. McDowell, an astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics at Harvard University
"Dr. Dennis McCullough (MD), has been a family physician and geriatrician for 30 years. Currently, he is an Associate Professor of Community and Family Medicine at Dartmouth Medical School. He will speak about his book, "My Mother, Your Mother: Embracing Slow Medicine, the Compassionate Approach to Caring for Your Aging Loved Ones."
“Dinosaurs Along the Silk Road.” - James Clark, Ph.D., is the Ronald Weintraub Professor of Biology at George Washington University. Dr. Clark was a co-leader of expeditions that discovered the bones of small dinosaurs mired in mud, stacked one on top of another, in the northern part of Xinjiang, China, near the ancient Silk Road. More information: http://www.gwu.edu/~newsctr/newscenter/research/dinosaur/
"Earth’s Water Cycle in a Changing Climate." A presentation by Peter Hildebrand, chief of the Hydrospheric and Biospheric Sciences Laboratory at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
"Eleanor Lambert: Still Here." - A book talk and signing by author and fashion historian John Tiffany. Sponsored jointly with Business Reference Services.
"Farming, Food Security, and Climate Change." - Molly Brown, Senior Research Scientist, Science Systems and Applications, Inc. at NASA
“The Fandom of the Opera: How a Four-Century-Old Art Form Helped Create the Modern Media World.” Mark Schubin serves as engineer-in-charge of the Metropolitan Opera’s media department and has also worked on cinema, radio, and television projects as diverse as the Olympic Games, The News Hour, and Sesame Street.
"Fit To Live" - Dr. Pamela Peeke, physician, scientist and expert in the fields of nutrition, metabolism, stress, and fitness, spoke on her newest book.
"Food Politics, Safe Food, and What to Eat."- Dr. Marion Nestle, NYU professor, author and food industry critic spoke on her latest book.
"Food Thrift: Scraps from the Past" with Constance Carter, Head of the Science Reference Section at the Library of Congress - Journey & Crossings Webcast
"From Promises to Proof: Studying Complementary and Alternative Medicine" - Dr. Stephen Straus, Director of the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine of the National Institutes of Health
"Who Left the Freezer Door Open? What the Poles Are Telling Us about Climate Change."- Bob Bindschadler, Chief Scientist, Hydrospheric and Biospheric Sciences Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
"Galileo: 400 Years of the Telescope" - Dr. Michelle Thaller, NASA astrophysicist. Her presentation is a look at the real Galileo, his intriguing daughter Virginia, and the personalities and politics that led to his imprisonment.
"Gamma Ray Bursts and the Birth of Black Holes," - presented by Neil Gehrels, an experimental physicist working in gamma-ray astronomy at NASA
"Got Game: How the Gamer Generation is Reshaping Business Forever" - Dr. John Beck
"The Great Unraveling" - Paul Krugman
"The Health Risks of Exposure to Atomic (ionizing) radiation: updates." - Professor William (Jack) Schull, president of the Schull Institute and Professor Emeritus of the University of Texas School of Public Health, is a noted experts in genetics and the health effects of radiation.
"Healthy Bites: Great-Tasting, Healthy Food on a Budget" - Sally Squires, award-winning journalist and former syndicated nutrition columnist of the Lean Plate Club in the Washington Post, spoke on
"Herbs in the Garden" - Holly Shimizu, the executive director of the United States Botanic Garden.
"The History of Household Technology" with Constance Carter, Head of the Science Reference Section at the Library of Congress - Journey & Crossings Webcast
"Honey Bees, Satellites, and Climate Change" Wayne Esaias, Ocean Sciences Branch, NASA GSFC
Dave Leckrone astrophysicist with the NASA Hubble Space Program spoke on Hubble: A New Beginning .
"Insects and Gardens: In Pursuit of a Garden Ecology" - Dr. Eric Grissell
Jane Goodall will speak about her latest book, "Hope for Animals and Their Worlds: How Endangered Animals are Being Rescued from the Brink." Co-sponsored with the Center for the Book.
"Library Landscape Renovation" - Matthew Evans, Holly Shimizu & Carl Morgan, LC's gardener supervisor
"Malaria & War: The US Antimalarial Program in World War II." - Presented by Leo B. Slater, Ph.D., Historian, US Naval Research Laboratory.
"Man, Food & Fire: The Evolution of Barbecue" - Steve Raichlen
"The Many Colors of the Sun." - W. Dean Pesnell of the NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory presented an illustrated lecture on new observations and views of solar phenomena.
Mapping the Moon with WALL-E and Children, Marci Delaney, PhD., NASA, shows how NASA and WALL-E partner to help students across the country learn how scientists and engineers work together to accomplish robotic missions.
"Mapping Water Use from Space", Martha Anderson, PhD., talks about using images from the Landsat satellite program to monitor water use and drought on U.S. farms. It is used to measure evapotranspiration, the total amount of water used in the process of growing crops.
"Mars Update". James Garvin, NASA, spoke about recent research and plans for Mars exploration.
"Mesa Verde Prehistoric Public Works" - Kenneth Wright, President of Wright Water Engineers, Inc., Denver, CO.
"The New American Cooking" - Joan Nathan, award-winning author of numerous cookery books spoke on her latest book
"NASA's Desert Rats" - (Desert Research and Technology Studies.) A presentation by Jacob Bleacher, PhD.
"No Place to Hide: Behind the Scenes of Our Emerging Surveillance Society" - Robert O'Harrow, reporter for The Washington Post
"No Such Thing as Overexposure: Inside the Life and Celebrity of Donald Trump" - Robert Slater
"Observing, Fighting, and Mitigating Damage from Fires."- Compton Tucker, Hydrospheric and Biospheric Sciences Laboratory, NASA GSFC
Observing the Living Oceans from Space. Gene Feldman, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
Thorsten Markus, Head of the Cryospheric Sciences Branch at NASA Goddard, presented On Thin Ice: The Changing Ice Cover on Polar Oceans.
"Organic Farms" - Jim Crawford, of New Morning Farm, and Sam Fromartz, author of Organic Inc.: Natural Foods and How They Grew, spoke on sustainable organic agriculture, family farming, direct marketing of foods.
"The Origins of Life and the Universe" - Craig Mello and John Mather, 2006 Nobel Prize winners
"The Parking Garage" - Shannon McDonald, A.I.A., is a Senior Architect at the architectural firm of Shannon Sanders McDonald. She spoke about movement issues as related to parking, transportation, environment, architecture, and urban planning.
"Peering Into the Storm: NASA's Exploration of Hurricanes." - Dr. Scott A. Braun, research meteorologist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.
"Predicting Disease Outbreaks from Space", Assaf Anyamba, PhD., NASA.
"Preserving Africa's Threatened Wildlife: Forest Peoples and Indigenous Knowledge." - Alden Almquist, anthropologist, 2003-2004 Kluge Staff Fellow, and Albert Lokasola, President, Vie Sauvage, Democratic Republic of the Congo discuss the wildlife conservation programs in Congo's Lac Tumba and Maringa-Wamba-Lopori landscapes.
"Quiches, Kugels and Couscous: My Search for Jewish Cooking in France." - Author and TV personality Joan Nathan discussed her latest book
"Renewing the National Zoo" - Dr. Lucy H. Spelman
"Salt in Your Socks and Other Tried-and-True Home Remedies" - Dr. Lillian Beard
"School Gardens" with Constance Carter, Head of the Science Reference Section at the Library of Congress - Journey & Crossings Webcast
"Seashell on the Mountaintop" - Alan Cutler
"The New Science of Addiction and What It Means for Society" - presented by Alan I. Leshner, PhD. Dr. Leshner is the Chief Executive Officer of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and an Executive Publisher of the journal, Science. Cosponsored by the Science, Technology, and Business Division and the Library of Congress Employee's Assistant Program
Science Safari, 2003
Science Safari, 2004
"Superstrings: Einstein's Dream at the New Millennium" - Dr. Sylvester James Gates, Jr., John S. Toll Professor of Physics, University of Maryland
"Science and Technology Policy in Japan" - Yukio Sato, director general and professor at the International Research and Educational Institute for Integrated Medical Sciences at Tokyo Women's Medical University; adviser and former executive director of the Japan Science and Technology Agency
"Our Sun: Its Influence on Life and Climate." - Edward F. Guinan, Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at Villanova University. Fore more information, http://www.astronomy.villanova.edu/faculty/guinan/guinan.htm
"A Tale of Two Gardens" - Dr. James A. Duke, noted ethnobotanist, expert on medicinal plants, and author
"The Tenth Muse: My Life In Food" - Judith Jones is a Senior Editor and Vice President of Alfred A. Knopf and the 2006 recipient of the James Beard Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award. In her nearly 50-year career as a cookbook editor, Jones has worked with a long list of esteemed food writers, including Julia Child and James Beard. She spoke on her upcoming book
"A Thousand Years Over a Hot Stove: A History of American Women Told Through Food, Recipes and Remembrances" - Laura Schenone
"The Transit of Venus" by Sten Odenwald, PhD.
"The Transmission of SARS" - Dr. Marc Lipsitch, Ph.D, Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Immunology and Infectious Diseases at Harvard School of Public Health
"The Undercover Economist: Exposing Why the Rich are Rich, the Poor are Poor -- and Why You Can Never Buy a Decent Used Car" - Tim Harford, columnist of Financial Times and Slate
"Volcanoes –Near, Far and Really Far Away." - Ashley Davies, Asteroids, Comets and Satellites Group, Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
"War of Nerves: Chemical Warfare from World War I to Al-Qaeda" - Jonathan Tucker, Senior Research at the Monterey Institute's Center for Non-proliferation Studies
"Weather Forecasting" - Bob Ryan, Chief Meteorologist at NBC4
"Weight Loss Through the Ages: Where We’ve Been, What We’ve Learned and Where We’re Going." - A panel Discussion featuring nutrition, obesity and weight-loss experts.
"What to Do about Worsening Economic Inequality? The Rising Tide Tax System and Other Proposals" - Dr. Shiller, the Stanley B. Resor Professor of Economics at Yale University
When Washington Bailed Out Mom & Pop. Marc Levinson, economic historian, will speak about his new book "The Great A&P and the Struggle for Small Business in America."
"The Woman Road Warrior" - Kathleen Ameche, President of the Ameche Group
"Women's History & Food History: New Ways of Seeing American Life" - Barbara Haber, distinguished women's history librarian and culinary historian
Women in Science and Engineering- National Women's History Project chose "Women Taking the Lead to Save Our Planet" as the 2009 theme for National Women's History Month. A panel discussion on "Women in Science and Engineering" was held at the Library. The moderator and featured panelist was Carol Burger, associate professor in the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies at Virginia Tech and coordinator of the university's Science and Gender Equity Program

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