Charles W. Cole, Jr., Former President and CEO, First Maryland Bankcorp and The National Bank of Maryland, will analyze and discuss the state of the U.S. economy from a global perspective, with a special focus on both the strengths and weaknesses of curre

Elyse Fenton, award-winning author, will read from her poetry collection, Clamor, which focuses on love, loneliness and grief in the context of the Iraq War, and discuss how her investigation of the language of wartime found its poetic form.

Garret Kramer, the founder of Inner Sports and the author of Stillpower: The Inner Source of Athletic Excellence, will talk about the states of mind that lead to success—on and off the playing field. The quality of our thoughts and moods determine our

Ron Deibert, professor of Political Science and director of the Canada Centre for Global Security Studies and the Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto. Cyberspace is being re-shaped by technological changes, a growing

Mitchell Sogin, Senior Scientist and Director, Josephine Bay Paul Center, Marine Biological Laboratory. The Census of Marine Microbes, a collaboration between 50 research laboratories working in study sites distributed throughout the world’s oceans, ha

Paul Olsen, Col., U.S. Army, will discuss that today’s advances in evolutionary biology are unifying competing theories of natural selection and serve as a timely call for a similar unification of competing theories of war. This lecture explores the rel

Protest movements continue to spread in the Arab world, taking different shape according to local political structures and social dynamics and posing knotty challenges to U.S. policymakers to keep up with the breakneck speed of developments. Panelists P

A distinguished list of speakers and panelists will discuss the consequences of an unfunded judiciary on democracy — whether in Pennsylvania or the other 49 states at both the state and federal levels. In addition, the forum will explore how Pennsylvani

Bernardino León Gross, E.U. Special Representative (EUSR) for the Southern Mediterranean. Protest movements and uprisings continue to spread in the Arab world, taking different shape according to local political structures and social dynamics. The trend

George Whitesides, Woodford L. and Ann A. Flowers University Professor, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, will present a lecture on low-cost diagnostics.