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Hundreds of Hopkins alumni and friends gathered in Los Angeles on March 25, 2006, to share stories of discovery and discuss issues of the day.

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The Science, Politics, and Promise of Stem Cells
Length 1 hour

How is stem cell R&D changing the practice of medicine? How is this work complicated by bioethical dilemmas and political brinkmanship?

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Moderator
William R. Brody, M.D., Ph.D.
President, Johns Hopkins University

Presenters
John D. Gearhart, Ph.D.
C. Michael Armstrong Professor of Medicine, Director, Stem Cell Program, Institute for Cell Engineering, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University

John W. McDonald III, M.D., Ph.D.
Executive Vice President and Director of The International Center for Spinal Cord Injury, Kennedy Krieger Institute; Associate Professor of Neurology, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University

James Economou, M.D., Ph.D., (A&S 1972)
Deputy Director, Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, Chief of the Division of Surgical Oncology, and Director, JCCC Cancer Translational Therapeutics Program, UCLA

Jeremy Sugarman, M.D., M.P.H. (SPH '92)
Harvey M. Meyerhoff Professor of Bioethics and Medicine, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University; Deputy Director for Medicine, Phoebe R. Berman Bioethics Institute, Johns Hopkins University

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Human Rights and National Security
Length 55 minutes

Since 9/11, the U.S. has revolutionized the ways it gathers intelligence, defines threats, and treats prisoners. Are we safer today? Whether yes or no, at what price?

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Moderator
Steven Knapp, Ph.D.
Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, Johns Hopkins University

Presenters
Michael Berkow, J.D. (SPSBE '00)
Deputy Chief of Police, Los Angeles Police Department

James Mann
Author-in-Residence, Foreign Policy Institute, The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University

Jonathan H. Marks, M.A., B.C.L.
Barrister, Matrix Chambers, London
Greenwall Fellow in Bioethics at Georgetown University Law Center and the Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University

Ruth Wedgwood, J.D.
Edward B. Burling Professor of International Law and Diplomacy, Director of the International Law and Organization Program, The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University

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Extreme Exploration
Length 1 hour

What are deep-diving robots revealing about the remotest reaches of the sea? What ingenious thinking factored into the New Horizons Pluto probe? What light can an earth-bound astrophysicist shed on the origins of the universe?

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Moderator
Nicholas P. Jones, Ph.D.
Dean of the G.W.C. Whiting School of Engineering, Johns Hopkins University

Presenters
Jonathan A. Bagger, Ph.D.
Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Chair of the Henry A. Rowland Department of Physics and Astronomy, Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Johns Hopkins University

Mark Perry, Ph.D. (A&S '89)
Lead Engineer for New Horizons, the first mission to Pluto
Systems Engineer, Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University

Louis L. Whitcomb, Ph.D.
Professor in the Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science, G.W.C. Whiting School of Engineering, Johns Hopkins University