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Current Sponsors

Full Year Sponsors

The Policy Studies Organization with the American Public University

Anonymous Donor #1

Individual Lecture Sponsors

James Trefil
#2,461 06/17/2022 Supermassive Black Holes at the Centers of Galaxies -Shobita Satyapal

Tim Thomas
#2,460 06/03/2022 Quantum Information Science and Quantum Computing -Charles Tahan

MWZB Law
#2,459 05/20/2022 Ingenuity: The First Flying Machine on Mars -J. (Bob) Balaram

Joe Schulman
#2,458 05/06/2022 Ultraminiature Medical Implants -John Randall

Anonymous
#2,456 03/25/2022 Ocean Microbes, Aerosols, Climate and Health -Kimberly Prather

Erica Kane
#2,451 12/17/2021 Planet Formation -Sean Andrews

Joe Schulman
#2,446 10/08/2021 Taking the Twinkle Out of the Stars -Olivier Guyon

Adarsh Deepak
#2,443 06/18/2021 NASA’s Commercial Crew Program -Steve Stich

Carl Merril, MWZB Law
#2,442 06/04/2021 Quantum Gravity -Carlo Rovelli

Tim Thomas
#2,441 05/21/2021 Bringing Back the American Chestnut Tree -William A. Powell

Past Sponsors

Major Benefactors

Bill Maisch, PSW President and Long Time Member
Bequest 2022

Full Year Sponsors

The Policy Studies Organization with the American Public University
2018-19, 2019-20, 2020-21, 2021-22, 2022-23

Anonymous Donor #1
2018-19, 2019-20, 2020-21, 2021-22, 2022-23

Individual Lecture Sponsors

Adarsh Deepak

#2,443 06/18/2021 NASA’s Commercial Crew Program
#2,427 10/23/2020 The Mathematics of Voting Systems
#2,422 06/05/2020 When AI Joins the Human Brain

American Public University

#2,355 12/04/2015 The Health Gap
#2,346 04/20/2015 The Hubble 25th Anniversary Lectures
#2,331 03/21/2014 Exceeding Fusion Fuel Breakeven
#2,325 12/06/2013 Behavioral Economics
#2,297 02/24/2012 Sand Stories
#2,292 12/02/2011 Trading at the Speed of Light
#2,281 02/25/2011 Water in Arid Lands
#2,276 12/03/2010 Science for Energy

Anonymous

#2,456 03/25/2022 Ocean Microbes, Aerosols, Climate and Health

Bill Spargo

#2,263 01/08/2010 NexGen DNA Sequencers and Personalized Genomics
#2,247 01/09/2009 The NIPCC Report

Bob Terry

#2,428 11/06/2020 Is There a Crisis in Cosmology?
#2,415 11/01/2019 TESS’ Exoplanets
#2,400 12/07/2018 NSF’s Ten Big Ideas

Carl Merril

#2,442 06/04/2021 Quantum Gravity
#2,411 09/06/2019 Quantum Gravity
#2,396 09/21/2018 Black Holes and the Structure of Spacetime

Erica Kane

#2,451 12/17/2021 Planet Formation
#2,423 06/26/2020 Contextual Robotics
#2,407 04/12/2019 Understanding Dark Matter

Frank Robert

#2,403 02/08/2019 Differentiation of the Embryonic Universe

James Trefil

#2,461 06/17/2022 Supermassive Black Holes at the Centers of Galaxies

Jeanne Shaw

#2,409 04/29/2019 A Planet Definition Debate
#2,389 03/09/2018 Eclipses
#2,347 04/24/2015 Advanced Spacesuits

Jerry Harasewych

#2,414 10/18/2019 Like Life

Joe Schulman

#2,458 05/06/2022 Ultraminiature Medical Implants
#2,446 10/08/2021 Taking the Twinkle Out of the Stars
#2,436 03/05/2021 Building the Giant Magellan Telescope

Klaus Heiss

#2,232 01/25/2008 Manmade Global Warming

Larry Millstein

#2,239 05/16/2008 Arsenic in Ground Water
#2,223 05/11/2007 The Very First Light
#2,212 11/17/2006 Fifteen Years of Astounding Images by the Hubble Space Telescope

Mayumi Okada

#2,412 09/20/2019 Space Architecture for a Moon Village

MWZB Law

#2,459 05/20/2022 Ingenuity: The First Flying Machine on Mars
#2,442 06/04/2021 Quantum Gravity
#2,432 01/08/2021 The Year Nanomaterials Saved the World from COVID-19
#2,421 05/15/2020 The Event Horizon Telescope
#2,420 02/21/2020 Single-Particle Cryo-Electron Microscopy
#2,410 05/17/2019 The Big Bang and Inflation
#2,401 01/11/2019 Personalized Drugs on Demand
#2,394 06/15/2018 Cassini’s Spectacular Saturn
#2,386 01/05/2018 Taking the Pulse of the Ocean in a Changing World
#2,379 05/12/2017 Exoplanets and the Search for Life
#2,363 05/06/2016 LIGO, Gravitational Waves, and Colliding Black Holes
#2,362 04/15/2016 The Exploration of Pluto
#2,356 01/08/2016 Einstein, Time, and Light
#2,348 05/08/2015 Synthetic Biology
#2,341 01/23/2015 Grasping the Universe
#2,334 05/09/2014 A Worm’s Tale
#2,326 01/10/2014 What is a Gene?
#2,318 05/10/2013 Curiosity’s Robotic Exploration of Mars’ Gale Crater
#2,310 01/04/2013 The Human Role in Earth Evolution
#2,302 05/25/2012 Synthesizing Life
#2,294 01/06/2012 The Beauty and Promise of Molecular Nanotechnology
#2,279 01/21/2011 Breaking Rules, Making Rules

Policy Studies Organization

#2,355 12/04/2015 The Health Gap
#2,346 04/20/2015 The Hubble 25th Anniversary Lectures
#2,331 03/21/2014 Exceeding Fusion Fuel Breakeven
#2,325 12/06/2013 Behavioral Economics
#2,297 02/24/2012 Sand Stories
#2,292 12/02/2011 Trading at the Speed of Light
#2,281 02/25/2011 Water in Arid Lands
#2,276 12/03/2010 Science for Energy

Robin Taylor

#2,239 05/16/2008 Arsenic in Ground Water
#2,223 05/11/2007 The Very First Light
#2,212 11/17/2006 Fifteen Years of Astounding Images by the Hubble Space Telescope

Tim Thomas

#2,460 06/03/2022 Quantum Information Science and Quantum Computing
#2,441 05/21/2021 Bringing Back the American Chestnut Tree
#2,433 01/22/2021 Quantifying COVID-19 Pandemic Spread
#2,417 12/06/2019 Super-Resolution and 3-D Imaging: Brain Circuits to Cell Ultrastructures
#2,387 01/19/2018 The Human Cell Atlas
#2,354 11/20/2015 Obama’s BRAIN
#2,344 03/20/2015 Brave Genius