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Known as the Annual Science Conference, the event's objectives include encouraging minority students and women, another underrepresented group in scientific fields, to pursue careers in science, Counter writes...
...Counter, who is also an associate professor of neurology, says this conference "involves over 50 undergraduate students of all races and cultural backgrounds...
Similarly, S. Allen Counter, director of the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations, writes in an e-mail message that his organization has for years championed the goal of increasing minority participation in the sciences...
Each conference also features "a nationally known keynote speaker," according to Counter. Past speakers have included Jaime Escalante, the calculus teacher whose story served as the basis for the movie Stand and Deliver and Mae Jemsion, the first black female astronaut...
...tampering with systems that are so complex that scientists are struggling to understand them. Climatologist Tom Wigley of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, for one, fervently believes the answer to our problems lies not just in improved knowledge of the climate system but in technological advances that could counter--and perhaps reverse--present trends. In other words, the farfetched dreams that prominent scientists like Von Neumann once harbored have not died. Rather they have been transformed and, in the process, become more urgent...