The Committee of Concerned Scientists’ Annual Meeting will be held on Sunday, April 16th , 2023.

March 26, 2023

The meeting will be held virtually, and it will take place in
two parts.

This is a reminder that the Committee of Concerned Scientists’ Annual Meeting will be held on Sunday, April 16th, 2o23. We hope that you will be able to attend this year.

Thank you to those of you who have already submitted your RSVPs. If you have not yet submitted your RSVP, please use the following link to let us know if you will be attending the meeting(s) by Monday, April 3rd: https://forms.gle/9hvdZ76othtrRQog7

The meeting will be held virtually, and it will take place in two parts.

Meeting I will be a business meeting which will take place from 1:00pm to 2:00pm and be open to Board Members and the Council of Young Scholars.

Meeting II will take place from 2:00pm to 3:15pm on YouTube and is open to the general public. After introductions of our two speakers, each will give a 25-minute presentation followed by Q&A sessions. Please follow this link to view the presentation live on YouTube:
https://youtube.com/live/9NQDo9Jh3S0?feature=share

This link may be shared. You are welcome to share the link with anyone you think would be interested.

We are delighted to have the following speakers this year:

Richard Stone
Senior Science Editor, HHMI Tangled Bank Studios
Topic: Science in Ukraine Affected by War

Dr. Encieh Erfani
Scientific Consultant, ICTP, Italy; Fellow, International Science Council
Topic: Protests at Iranian Universities

We do hope you can attend, and we look forward to seeing you there!

Sincerely,

Alexandra Bender
Executive Director
Committee of Concerned Scientists

Co-chairs

Joel L. Lebowitz, Rutgers University

Walter Reich, George Washington University

Eugene Chudnovsky, Lehman College

Alexander Greer, Brooklyn College

Vice-chairs

Biology – Max E. Gottesman, Columbia University

Chemistry – Zafra Lerman, MIMSAD Inc.

Computer Science – Rachelle Heller, The George Washington University

Engineering – Philip Sarachik, NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering

Computer Science – Jack Minker, University of Maryland, College Park

Mathematics – Simon Levin, Princeton University

Honorary Board Members

Nancy Andrews, Duke University

Myles Axton, Chief Editor, Genetics and Genomics Next

David Baltimore, California Institute of Technology*

Alan J. Bard, University of Texas

David Gross, University of California, Santa Barbara*

James Langer, University of California, Santa Barbara

Peter Lax, New York University

Giorgio Parisi, Roma I University La Sapienza

John C. Polanyi, University of Toronto*

Stuart Rice, University of Chicago

Sir Richard J. Roberts, New England Biolabs*

Maxine Singer, Carnegie Institution of Washington

Alfred I. Tauber, Boston University

Myrna Weissman, Columbia University

Former Honorary Board Members

Jacob Bigeleisen (deceased), SUNY, Stony Brook

Raoul Bott (deseased) Harvard University

Owen Chamberlain (deceased), University of California, Berkeley

Stanley Deser (deceased), Brandeis University

Edward Gerjuoy (deceased), University of Pittsburgh

Pierre Hohenberg (deceased), New York University

Walter Kohn (deceased), University of California, Santa Barbara*

Louis Nirenberg (deceased), New York University

Marshall Nirenberg (deceased), National Institutes of Health*

Myriam Sarachick (deceased), City College of New York

Harold Scheraga (deceased), Cornell University

Sylvan Schweber (deceased), Brandeis University

Steven Weinberg (deceased), University of Texas, Austin*

Rosalyn S. Yalow (deceased), Mount Sinai School of Medicine*

* Nobel laureate

The Committee of Concerned Scientists’ Annual Meeting will be held on Sunday, April 16th , 2023.

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