Kirby's remarks opened a symposium to mark the launch of the Harvard Center Shanghai, a new research and training site, which itself is a measure of how China's integration with the world has reached into the most cautious corners.
I walked away from Dr. Ebadi's speech, which opened a symposium on Women's Leadership and Activism in The Muslim World, emboldened and optimistic about the possibility of reform in Iran and the end of destructive wars between the West and the Middle East.
Henry Bourne opened the symposium with a keynote outlining the changes he thinks must be made to the scientific infrastructure.
Burnham opened the symposium's discussion (on 'Impulsive Self-Mutilation') by arguing that 'the impulsive, intentional cutting of their own skin is a major symptomatic act' (1969: 223).
Aleksey Kazantsev opened the Symposium by highlighting the explosion of research on sirtuins, the evolutionarily conserved NAD+ nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide -dependent protein dinucleotide -dependentomologues of the yeast longevity gene Sir2.
Dr. Shariful Islam from CIHLMU and Senior Research Investigator, Center for Control of Chronic Diseases (CCCD), icddr,b opened the symposium on behalf of the organizing committee and stressed the recent global epidemic of NCDs affecting both the developed and developing nations.
The physical exhibition and even its title are "decoys" at the center of a series of open workshops and symposia, designed to provoke public discussion on the future of housing in the United States.
In celebration of its 100th anniversary, Yaddo is sponsoring a very public birthday party: a festival of concerts, readings, exhibitions, screenings, open studios and symposiums in New York and Saratoga Springs that began on April 15 and runs through October.
On behalf of the organizing committee, Dr. Jian Ding from Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica and Dr. Li Yan from USCACA, Co-Chairs of the symposia, opened the meeting by introducing the theme and agenda of the session.
The lectures and symposia are open to all university- or institute-registered students, postdoctoral fellows, and researchers who apply (we have ∼100 attendees per course).
