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About The Science Network

The mission of The Science Network (TSN) is to build an online science and society agora, or public square, dedicated to the discussion of issues at the intersection of science and social policy. By engaging a diverse community of concerned constituencies in conversation, on and offline through signature meetings, video programming, and in developing partnerships with public television stations, TSN is creating a scientific no-spin zone - a trusted destination free from the tyranny of the sound bite.

The Science Network Advisory Board

ROGER BINGHAM, Director, Co-founder, The Science Network

Institute for Neural Computation, UC San Diego

TERRENCE SEJNOWSKI, Chair

Director, Crick-Jacobs Center for Computational and Theoretical Biology, Salk Institute for Biological Studies; Director, Institute for Neural Computation, UC San Diego 

JOHN ALLMAN

Hixon Professor of Biology, California Institute of Technology

RICHARD ATKINSON

President Emeritus, University of California; Director Emeritus, National Science Foundation

J. MICHAEL BISHOP

Nobel Laureate; Chancellor, UC San Francisco

COLIN BLAKEMORE

Professor of Neuroscience, University of Oxford; Former Chief Executive, Medical Research Council

SYDNEY BRENNER

Nobel Laureate; Distinguished Professor, Salk Institute for Biological Studies

PATRICIA SMITH CHURCHLAND

Professor Emerita of Philosophy , UC San Diego

ANN DRUYAN

Founder and CEO, Cosmos Studios

MARYE ANNE FOX

Chancellor, UC San Diego

MARIA FREIRE

President, Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation; Member, Advisory Committee to the Director of the National Institutes of Health

FRED H. GAGE

Adler Professor of Genetics, Salk Institute for Biological Studies; Former President, Society for Neuroscience

BEATRICE GOLOMB

School of Medicine, UC San Diego

DONALD KENNEDY

President Emeritus, Stanford University; Editor-in-Chief, Science

PATRICIA KING

Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Law, Medicine, Ethics, and Public Policy, Georgetown University

LAWRENCE KRAUSS

Foundation Professor and Director of Origins Initiative, Arizona State University

SIR HAROLD KROTO

Nobel Laureate; Former President, Royal Society of Chemistry

E.C. KRUPP

Director, Griffith Observatory, Los Angeles

LEON LEDERMAN

Nobel Laureate; Director Emeritus, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory; Founder, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy, Professor of Science, Illinois Institute of Technology

V.S. RAMACHANDRAN

Director, Center for Brain and Cognition, UC San Diego

SALLY RIDE

First American woman in space; Professor of Physics, UC San Diego; President and CEO, Imaginary Lines Inc.

REESE SCHONFELD

Founding CEO and President, CNN; Founding CEO and President, Food Network

MICHAEL SHERMER

Founding Publisher, Skeptic magazine; Director, the Skeptics Society

ALAN TROUNSON

President, California Institute for Regenerative Medicine; Founder and Executive Vice-Chairman, Australian Stem Cell Centre

EDWARD WITTEN

Fields Medalist; Professor, Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton University

STEPHEN WOLFRAM

Founder and CEO, Wolfram Research; Creator, Mathematica

PHILIP YEO

Chairman of Standards, Productivity and Innovation Board, Senior Advisor on Science and Technology to the Minister for Trade and Industry, Republic of Singapore