DE LANGE - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Founding Executive Director of the Moody Center for the Arts
- Suzanne Deal Booth Executive Director, Moody Center for the Arts, Rice University
Biography
Alison Weaver is the founding executive director of the Moody Center for the Arts at Rice University, where she established an innovative program fostering transdisciplinary collaboration between the arts, sciences and humanities. She has concurrently led the expansion and diversification of Rice's public art collection, adding more than 55 works to campus.
Weaver is an art historian and former director of affiliates for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, where she oversaw programs and operations in Berlin; Bilbao, Spain; Venice, Italy; and Las Vegas. While at the Guggenheim, she managed the departments of Exhibition Management, Registration, Art Services, and Library and Archives, and together with her curatorial colleagues, implemented a wide range of international traveling exhibitions.
Weaver earned a B.A., cum laude, from Princeton University and holds advanced degrees in art history from Williams College and the City University of New York. She also holds an MBA from the Yale School of Management and gained executive experience as a consultant for McKinsey & Company. She is the co-president of the Houston Museum District and serves is a trustee for Texans for the Arts.
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- Senior Editor
- Senior Editor for Biomedicine, MIT Technology Review
Antonio Regalado is the senior editor for biomedicine for MIT Technology Review. He specialized in scoops at the frontiers of emerging biotechnology, age reversal and gene-editing. He broke the story of the "CRISPR Babies" in China and has appeared in the documentary films "Make People Better" and "Human Nature." Before joining MIT Technology Review in July 2011, Regalado was a science reporter and later a Brazil correspondent with The Wall Street Journal.
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- Associate Professor of BioSciences
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- Associate Professor of History / Yousif Shamoo
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- Professor of Psychological Sciences
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- Choreographer
- Choreographer and Artistic Director, Pigeonwing Dance
Gabrielle Lamb, choreographer and 2020 Guggenheim Fellow, is based in New York City, where she directs Pigeonwing Dance, described by The New Yorker as "eccentric … playful … curious." Her work has been presented by American Ballet Theatre, the New York Choreographic Institute, the MIT Museum, BalletX, the Juilliard School, Jacob's Pillow and Dance on Camera Festival at Lincoln Center. She has won competitions at Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Milwaukee Ballet and the Banff Centre, as well as the S&R Foundation's Washington Award and a Princess Grace Award. A native of Savannah, Georgia, she trained at the Boston Ballet School and was a soloist at Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal, later performing with Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company in NYC. She has been praised by Dance Magazine as "a dancer of stunning clarity who illuminates the smallest details - qualities she brings to the dances she makes, too." She is a 2024 Hearst Choreographer in Residence at Princeton University.
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- Associate Professor of Anthropology / Jason Hafner
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- Chairman in Social Sciences
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- Associate Professor of Anthropology / Jason Hafner
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- Professor of Bioengineering & BioSciences
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- Director of Systems
- Professor
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- Senior Fellow in Science and Technology Policy, Baker Institute for Public Policy
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- Associate
- Executive Director
- Professor
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- Associate Professor
- Associate Professor of Communication and Science Studies, University of California, San Diego
Lilly Irani is an associate professor of communication and science studies at University of California, San Diego, where she is faculty director of the Labor Center. She also co-directs the Just Transitions Initiative and serves as faculty in the Design Lab, the Institute for Practical Ethics and the program in Critical Gender Studies. She is author of "Chasing Innovation: Making Entrepreneurial Citizens in Modern India" (Princeton University Press, 2019) and "Redacted" (with Jesse Marx) (Taller California, 2021). "Chasing Innovation" has been awarded the 2020 International Communication Association Outstanding Book Award and the 2019 Diana Forsythe Prize of the American Anthropological Association. Her research examines the cultural politics of high-tech work and the counter-practices they generate, as both an ethnographer, a designer and a former technology worker. She is a co-founder of the digital worker advocacy organization Turkopticon
Luis Campos is a historian of science whose scholarship brings together archival discoveries with contemporary fieldwork at the intersection of biology and society. He has written widely on the history of biological engineering and is the author of "Radium and the Secret of Life" (University of Chicago Press, 2015) and co-editor of "Making Mutations: Objects, Practices, Contexts" (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, 2010) and "Nature Remade: Engineering Life, Envisioning Worlds" (University of Chicago Press, 2021). He has held the Baruch S. Blumberg NASA/Library of Congress Chair in Astrobiology (2016-2017) and has been in residence at the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton), Columbia University (New York), Fondation Brocher (Geneva), Akademie Schloss Solitude (Stuttgart) and the biotech company Ginkgo Bioworks (Boston). Campos is an associate editor of the Journal of the History of Biology and recently completed six years serving as Secretary of the History of Science Society.
Luis Campos, Conference Chair
Baker College Chair for the History of Science, Technology, and Innovation
Faculty Scholar, Baker Institute for Public Policy
Rodrigo Ferreira
Assistant Teaching Professor of Computer Science
Gökçe Günel
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Jason Hafner, ex officio
Interim Scientia Director (2023-2024)
Professor of Physics & Astronomy
Cymene Howe
Professor of Anthropology
Kirstin R.W. Matthews
Senior Fellow in Science and Technology policy, Baker Institute for Public Policy
Frederick Oswald
Professor of Psychological Sciences
Herbert S. Autrey Chair in Social Sciences
Elizabeth Petrick
Associate Professor of History
Yousif Shamoo
Ralph and Dorothy Looney Professor of BioSciences
Jonathan (Joff) Silberg
Stewart Memorial Professor of BioSciences
Director of Systems, Synthetic, and Physical Biology Program
Jeffrey Tabor
Professor of Bioengineering & BioSciences
Lesa Tran Lu
Executive Director and Associate Teaching Professor, Institute of Biosciences and Bioengineering (IBB)
Daniel Wagner
Associate Professor of BioSciences
Job Titles:
- Principal, Practical Futurist
Michael Rogers was the only journalist at the Asilomar Conference without substantial science writing credentials. And his audience didn't purchase Rolling Stone to read about restriction enzymes (Stevie Wonder was on the cover of the Asilomar issue). Thus, his focus became the human element of the recombinant DNA controversy. Looking back, Asilomar remains an apt distillation of the tensions at the intersection of science and society. There are the constants of human nature: self-interest vs. social good, fear vs. opportunity, control vs. inclusivity. Other elements have changed, notably media infrastructure, popular perception of science and corporate influence. If anthropology was initially a journalistic device, it has become Rogers' lens for broader questions about science and society. Synthetic biology, AI and geoengineering are more than matters of public safety or policy. They are questions of evolutionary direction; how do we best progress as a species? Asilomar was the opening chapter of that quest.
Biography
Michael Rogers is a best-selling author, technology pioneer and futurist, who also recently served as futurist-in-residence for The New York Times. His consultancy, Practical Futurist, has worked with companies ranging from FedEx, Boeing and NBCUniversal to Microsoft and Pfizer, focusing on how organizations can think about the future in useful ways. He speaks to audiences worldwide and is a regular guest on radio and television. Rogers began his career as a writer for Rolling Stone magazine. He co-founded Outside magazine and then launched Newsweek's technology column, winning numerous journalism awards. For 10 years, he was vice president of The Washington Post Company's new media division, leading both the newspaper and Newsweek into the new century and earning patents for multimedia technology, as well as awards for his online coverage of 9/11. He is also a best-selling novelist whose books have been published worldwide, chosen for the Book-of-the-Month club and optioned for film. His latest novel is "Email From the Future: Notes From 2084."
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- Associate Professor
- Chairman
- Associate Professor and Chair of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University
Naveeda Khan is associate professor and chair of anthropology, sits on the board of the Program in Islamic Studies, and serves as affiliate faculty for the Department of Comparative Thought and Literature and the Program in Environmental Science and Studies at Johns Hopkins University. Her research spans riverine lives and national climate policy in Bangladesh, U.N.-led global climate governance processes, German romanticism, Bengali and Urdu literature, and writings on the environment. She is the author of "Muslim Becoming: Aspiration and Skepticism in Pakistan" (Duke University Press, 2012), "River Life and the Upspring of Nature" (Duke University Press, 2023) and "In Quest of a Shared Planet: Negotiating Climate from the Global South" (Fordham University Press, 2023) and editor of "Beyond Crisis: Re-evaluating Pakistan" (Routledge, 2010).
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- President, Rice University
Biography
Reginald DesRoches is Rice University's eighth president. He also serves as a professor of civil and environmental engineering and of mechanical engineering. DesRoches served as the key technical leader in the United States' response to the 2010 Haiti earthquake. He also has participated in numerous congressional briefings to underscore the critical role that university research plays in addressing the country's failing infrastructure and enhancing the nation's resilience to natural hazards. DesRoches is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and is a fellow of American Society of Civil Engineers and the Structural Engineering Institute. DesRoches earned his Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering, a Master of Science in Civil Engineering and a Doctorate in Structural Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley.
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- Assistant Teaching Professor of Computer Science
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- Co - Founder and CEO of Circe
In a world driven by speed, and for some, acceleration, we are facing a narrowing window of time to consider the consequences of our actions and inactions. In this talk, Nangle hopes to pose, if not answer, a series of questions on how we can ensure resilience as a species: How should we think about the resources available to us, especially time, and how should we ethically consider efficient resource use - a key metric in an increasingly uncertain world? Should we be guided more by progress or by a shared telos when considering the motivations for developing novel technologies? How can we align the incentives of prevailing economic systems with the future of humanity? And, as we have set ourselves on a path, one that is both strange and difficult, can we summon the best of our humanity in time?
Biography
Shannon Nangle is the co-founder and CEO of Circe and has been building out its technology for the past six years. Circe is a carbon transformation platform that converts carbon dioxide and hydrogen into chemicals on demand through the use of fermentation and synthetic biology. Circe spun out of her postdoc research while in Pam Silver's lab at Harvard University, where she focused on engineering microbes, building electrochemistry rigs and customizing fermentation systems. Prior to joining the lab, she received her Ph.D. from the University of Washington, where she studied crystallography and structural biology of protein complexes. She is a former Activate Fellow, has her work featured in the MIT Museum and was named an MIT Technology Review Innovator Under 35 in 2022. When she's not fundraising, Nangle indulges in surrealist cinema, absurdist literature, and upon Camus' suggestion, giving all to the present.
Job Titles:
- Suzanne Deal Booth Executive Director, Moody Center for the Arts, Rice University
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor of History / Yousif Shamoo
- Professor of Biosciences at Rice University
- Ralph and Dorothy Looney Professor of BioSciences, Rice University
Biography
Yousif Shamoo is a professor of biosciences at Rice University. He earned his B.S. in biology from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1983 and his Ph.D. in molecular biophysics and biochemistry at Yale University in 1988. He is an infectious diseases researcher and was the lead scientific adviser for designing, implementing and managing Rice University's COVID-19 response for then-university President David Leebron. His research group studies the continuing rise of antibiotic-resistant pathogens, "hospital superbugs." Resistance to antibiotics is one of this century's most pressing biomedical problems. As bacteria become resistant to antibiotics over time, they can eventually become pan-resistant, meaning that no antibiotics are effective against them. Unaddressed, the ascent of pan-resistant strains would bring us into a "post-antibiotic" era in which all modern medicine would be threatened. Shamoo is one of Rice University's most distinguished lecturers and won the university's highest teaching award, the George R. Brown Prize for Excellence in Teaching, in 2015. Only one faculty member per year receives this award. In addition to that award, he was awarded the second-highest university teaching award on four other occasions, most recently in 2019.