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...Dolores Mendelsohn, coordinator of the lecture series, said that the lectures are the "preliminary step" towards the formation of a national center for study of educational policy. Howard University has been tentatively selected as the site of the center, which will seek alternative solutions to urban and minority school problems, Mendelsohn said...
Guggenheim, who has studied the Dogon for over ten years, secured funds from several foundations to finance the mission. The Wunderman Art Foundation agreed to sponsor three Harvard students. whom Guggenheim and Everett I. Mendelsohn, professor of the History of Science, selected this fall...
...MENDELSOHN believes that his social activism and his concern for the social responsibility of science emerged independently, but his views of contemporary science carry some of his political themes. He sees an urgent need for a broader base of scientific and technological understanding and a breakdown of the notion that there is mystery to science. "I think we are in the middle of a very significant change in the way science relates to society. It has become so relevant--relevant to the very life and death of all people," he warns. Just as wider education changed the complexion of science...
Because science can be an instrument of democracy, there is a large measure of consistency in two of Mendelsohn's current projects: the New England chairmanship of the American Friends Service Committee and a lengthy study of the relations of social and intellectual bases of science. "I'd love to see a world brought into being which reflected values of non-violence, non-coercion, of inclusion rather than exclusion--one that placed man in harmony with nature," Mendelsohn says in summing up his loftiest hopes. Within such goals there is work for the activist, academic, and scientist alike...
...unprecedented political statement, the American Association for the Advancement of Science [AAAS] passed this resolution last December at the height of the carpet-bombing of Hanoi. It was introduced by Everett I. Mendelsohn, professor of the History of Science and AAAS vice president...