|
Year |
Speaker |
Title |
Topic |
|
2008 |
Dr. Jeff Goldstein |
Center Director, National Center for Earth
and Space Science Education |
Celebrating the Past, Embracing the Present, and
Inspiring the Future:
Human Exploration — the Journey Continues |
|
2007 |
Jack Uldrich |
President, The NanoVeritas Group, Author |
The Exponential Educator: How Eight Emerging
Technologies Will Transform Education |
|
2006 |
Dr. Alan
I. Leshner |
Chief Executive Officer and Executive
Publisher, Science,
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) |
Science Education in the Current Societal
Climate |
|
2005 |
Dr.
Sally Ride |
America's First Woman in Space, Professor of Physics,
University of California, San Diego, and CEO of Imaginary
Lines, Inc. |
Leadership and America's Future in Space |
|
2004 |
Dr.
David Sousa |
Educational Consultant, Author |
Making Schools Brain Compatible |
|
2003 |
Dr. Leon Lederman
|
Nobel Laureate
Physics 1988
|
Isn’t It Time
Science Education Joined the 21st Century?
|
|
2002 |
Dr. John Peterson
Myers
|
United Nations
Foundation
|
From Silent
Spring to Scientific Revolution: New Understandings of the
Links Between Environment and Health
|
|
2001 |
Dr. Robert
DeSalle
|
Researcher,
American Museum of Natural History
|
The Human Genome
Project
|
|
2001 |
Emory Kristof
|
National
Geographic Photographer, Pioneer in Deep Sea Robotic Cameras
|
Ghost Ships and
Sea Monsters
|
|
2000 |
Dr. Eric
Wieschaus
|
Nobel Laureate,
Princeton University
|
Doing Molecular
Genetics in Model Organisms in Humans
|
|
1999 |
Dr. Emlyn Koster
|
President and
CEO, Liberty Science Center
|
Lessons from
Travels into the Biosphere
|
|
1998 |
Sr. Mary Virginia
Orna, Ph.D. OSU
|
Editor of the
Chemical Heritage Foundation Publication, College of New
Rochelle
|
Doing Chemistry
at the Art/Archaeology Interface
|
|
1997 |
Milbry Polk
|
Explorer, Author,
Anthropological Film Maker
|
Virtual
Xplorations
|
|
1996 |
Jim Fowler
|
Host of Wild
Kingdom
|
Wildlife
Conservation and Its Effect on the Quality of Life
|
|
1996 |
Robert F.
Kennedy, Jr.
|
Chief Prosecuting
Attorney for the Hudson Riverkeeper and Senior Attorney for
the National Resources Defense Council, Attorney at the
Environmental Litigation Clinic, Pace University
|
Our Environmental
Destiny
|
|
1995 |
John Horner
|
Professor of
Geology and Biology, Curator of Paleontology, Museum of the
Rockies, Montana State University
|
The Complete
T-Rex
|
|
1994 |
Dr. Roger Bybee
|
Associate
Director, Biological Science Curriculum Study (BSCS),
Colorado. Chair, Working Group on Science Curriculum
Standards for the National Research Council
|
National Science
Education Standards: The Process, Product and Potential
|
|
1993 |
Jeff & Deb Hall
Sandler (Mr. & Mrs. Fish)
|
Marine Science
Education Entertainers
|
Marine Science
Education in the Classroom
|
|
1992 |
Dr. Kathryn
Sullivan
|
Chief Scientist,
National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration, Astronaut and
Marine Geologist
|
Exploring the
Earth from Above and Below
|
|
1991 |
Dr. Shirley
Jackson
|
Research
Physicist, AT&T Bell Labs
|
Science, Math,
Diversity, and Excellence: Challenge for the Next Century
|
|
1990 |
Geoff Somers
|
Antarctic
Explorer
|
Trans-Antarctic
International Expedition
|
|
1989 |
Dr. Christopher
Dagget
|
NJ Commissioner
of Environmental Protection
|
Educational
Investment – Environmental Futures
|
|
1988 |
Dr. Ruth Turner
|
Professor of
Biology, Harvard University, Renowned Biological
Oceanographer
|
Deep Sea
Exploration and Thermal Vents
|
|
1987 |
Dr. Charles
Howarth
|
Executive
Director, Liberty Science Center
|
New Jersey’s
Science and Technology Center: Its Role in Education
|
|
1986 |
Dr. Lynn Margulis
|
Professor of
Biology, Boston University
|
Early Life
|
|
1985 |
Dr. Robert Rines
|
President,
Franklin Pierce Law Center, Concord, NH
|
Searching for the
Loch Ness Monster for Fourteen Years
|
|
1984 |
Dr. Cecily Cannan
|
Selby Co.,
chairperson, National Science Board Commission on
Pre-College Education in Science, Mathematics and Technology
|
Opening Minds and
Opening Doors: Science, Mathematics and Technology Education
|
|
1983 |
Dr. Uri
Haber-Schaim
|
Director,
Institute for Curriculum Development
|
Substances and
Images in Science Education
|
|
1982 |
Dr. Niles
Eldridge
|
Curator,
Department of Invertebrates, American Museum of Natural
History
|
A Scientific Look
at Creationism
|
|
1981 |
Dr. Martin Moore-Ede
|
Associate
Professor of Physiology, Harvard University
|
Biological Clocks
|
|
1980 |
Dr. Arno Penzias
|
Nobel Laureate,
Bell Laboratories
|
Science,
Technology and Survival
|
|
1980 |
Dr. Hubert Alyea
|
Professor of
Chemistry, Princeton University
|
Chemistry
Demonstrations
|
|
1979 |
Dr. Fletcher
Watson
|
Director, Project
City Science, New York University
|
Science Curricula
for the 90’s
|
|
1979 |
Dr. Margaret
Maxey
|
Associate
Professor of Bioethics, University of Detroit
|
Nuclear Energy as
an Alternate Source
|
|
1978 |
Dr. Marjorie
Gardner
|
Professor of
Chemistry & Science Education, University of Maryland
|
China’s Challenge
to Science Education in the US
|
|
1978 |
Dr. Paul
Brandwein
|
Director of
Research, Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich
|
Science and the
Permanent Agenda of Man
|
|
1977 |
Dr. George Wald
|
Nobel Laureate,
Harvard University
|
Science and
Ethics
|
