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Aspen Global Congress on Scientific Thinking & Action The following components of the March 17–20, 2021, co-organized by the Aspen Institute Science & Society Program (USA) and the Question of Science Institute (Brazil) in collaboration with the Aspen Institute Italia (Rome, Italy) and EquiTech Futures, were open to public audiences. We invited scientists, science advocates, science communicators, journalists, and interested and curious members of the public to attend. Wednesday, March 17, 1...

How to Cover Vaccine Hesitancy Vaccine resistance is a challenging story for news organizations. Ordinary journalistic practices can unintentionally exacerbate the public health crisis by amplifying the very mis- and disinformation it seeks to counter. Over the past three months, Aspen Digital and the Aspen Institute Health, Medicine, and Society Program hosted multiple gatherings of experts and news executives at the national and local levels to help newsrooms explore how to responsibly repor...

Follow Mar. 3, 2021 The Israel Defense Forces chief rabbi participated in Monday’s meeting of an army task force on integrating women into combat roles, despite the army’s promise that religious considerations wouldn’t influence the panel. The other invitees were surprised to see Rabbi Eyal Karim at the meeting, since he hadn’t been on the list they were sent detailing the task force’s members. Another religious Zionist rabbi also attended the meeting, and several other rabbis have be...

Aspen Winter Words $10 Register: aspenwords.org Picture the last great meal you ate: Which foods are on the plate and what do they look like, smell like, taste like, feel like on the tongue? Are you eating alone or with others and on what occasion? What does the experience say about this moment in your life? No matter how you might answer these questions, others will likely be able to relate. “We all eat, and food is such a personal and revealing thing about our comfort,” explains Aspen Wor...

Head of NYU Langones Naik Lab, Shruti Naik, to be Session Leader at Upcoming Vanguard Network Forum Share Article Life Sciences experts will discuss the critical topic of population health as a competitive advantage at the next Vanguard Network forum for Life Sciences leaders NEW YORK (PRWEB) February 18, 2021 The Vanguard Network, which uniquely supports C-suite members in building their leadership capabilities, today announced t...

Science & Society Scientific research and innovation are principally responsible for decades of economic growth, medical advances, and enhanced national security. Yet, society has failed to elevate these contributions—through education, communication, and access—in order to build public appreciation for science: Scientific expertise is being challenged, and consensus on topics from climate change to vaccine safety is no longer assumed to be valid. Political leaders are increasingly willing ...

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The pandemic has forced many businesses to rethink their operations. Can business schools help guide them toward more sustainable practices? Advocating for the principles of sustainable business was complex even before a pandemic upended companies and communities around the world. Teaching these principles has become even more urgent during our current global crisis. At the University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business in Indiana, we have long aimed to make the reali...

February 10, 2021  • David K. Gibson One year ago—February 11, 2020—the Institute’s Health, Medicine and Society program brought together three experts for a panel called “Straight from the Source: Experts Discuss Novel Coronavirus.” The disease that has since wracked the world had only been officially named COVID-19 earlier that morning. At that point, it had claimed more than a thousand victims in two dozen countries. Epidemiologists were clear-eyed about the contagion’s pande...

by Owen Kibenge Terrence McCabe. Credit: Bert Covert. When locals started showing up with machine guns, AAAS Member and newly elected 2020 AAAS Fellow Dr. Terrence McCabe decided that it became too dangerous to continue exploring communities in Kenya’s Turkana county. Instead, he turned his career on the Badlands of northern Kenya and went south, where he would be "happier to be more worried about lions than the guys with machine guns,” he says. For 31 years now, McCabe – who i...