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Knowledge for the World Tour - Denver

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Hundreds of Johns Hopkins alumni and friends gathered in Denver on May 4, 2008, to share stories of discovery and discuss issues of the day.

If you missed the event, and even if you attended but want to hear the "idea foum" academic conversations again, download the audio and video recordings below. (Just click "Play" and the recordings will download to your computer. Downloading may take up to a minute or more).

Alternatively, you can subscribe to podcasts of the recordings using free software like Apple iTunes. This allows new recordings to be delivered automatically to your computer. And if you have a MP3 player, you can save the files to your portable media device and listen to podcasts from Johns Hopkins anywhere, anytime.

Subscribe through iTunes. If you're using other podcasting software, copy and paste the feed below in your preferred tool:

www.johnshopkins.edu/podcasts/podcasts.xml

What is podcasting? | Learn more (link to Wikipedia)

If you're using iTunes, once "Podcasts from Johns Hopkins" downloads, click the arrow on the left for a list of all the Hopkins podcasts currently available. Click "Get" to download the files to your computer.

In iTunes, be sure to search "Johns Hopkins" for other podcasts from Hopkins, including news from Johns Hopkins Medicine and the Bloomberg School of Public Health.

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Classical Elements, Modern Challenges
Length 37 minutes

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As local, national, and international conversations continue about energy, natural resources, and sustainability, attendant questions arise about economics, human health, politics, and what the future holds.

Moderator:

Nicholas P. Jones, Ph.D.
• Dean, Whiting School of Engineering, Johns Hopkins University

Presenters:

John C. Malone, Ph.D. Engr '64 (M.S.), '69 (Ph.D.)
Chairman, Liberty Media Corporation

Gerald J. Meyrer, Ph.D.
• Professor of Chemistry, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences
• Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Whiting School of Engineering, Johns Hopkins University

Kellogg J. Schwab, Ph.D.
• Director, Center for Water and Health, and Associate Professor, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University

R. David Simpson, Ph.D.
• HRH Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz Associate Professor in Environmental Policy, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University

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Medical Horizons
Length 31 minutes

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Johns Hopkins clinicians, researchers, and educators are breaking new ground in top-priority fields like cancer, the brain sciences, computational medicine, and pediatrics. The discuss addresses ways that medicine and technology are being used to improve, and ultimately save, lives.

Moderator:

David Valle, M.D.
• Henry J. Knott Professor and Director, McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University

Presenters:

Maria M. Oliva-Hemker, M.D. Med '86 (M.D.)
Stermer Family Professor of Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Associate Professor of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, Johns Hopking University
• Chief, Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, Johns Hopkins Hospital

Alan W. Partin, M.D., Ph.D. Med '89 (M.D., Ph.D)
• David Hall McConnell Professor and Director, The James Buchanan Brady Urological Institute, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University
• Urologist-in-Chief, Johns Hopkins Hospital

Peter C. Searson, Ph.D.
• Director, Institute for NanoBioTechnology
• Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Whiting School of Engineering, Johns Hopkins University

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