Author: Sharon Wood

Robinson Professors

Paul D’Andrea, Robinson Professor of Theater and English, had his play, “The Einstein Project,” produced in August at the Junction Theatre in Los Angeles to memorialize the explosion of the atomic bomb in Japan in 1945. His play, “Two-Bit Taj Mahal,” was read at New Dramatists in New York City. D’Andrea also spoke at the Class of 1960 Reunion at the 2010 Harvard Commencement on “‘Do You See This?’: Recognition in Shakespeare.”

Robert Hazen, Robinson Professor of Earth Sciences, presented the opening keynote address, “Mineralogical Co-Evolution of the Geo- and Biospheres,” at the quadrennial meeting of the International Mineralogical Association in Budapest, Hungary.

Harold Morowitz, Robinson Professor of Biology and Natural Philosophy, cowrote “Ligand Field Theory and the Origin of Life as an Emergent Feature of the Periodic Table,” which was published in the Biological Bulletin 219, 2010. He also cowrote “How Life Began, the Emergence of Sparse Metabolic Networks,” which was published in the Journal of Cosmology 10, August 2010.

Robinson Professors

Hugh Heclo, Robinson Professor of Public Affairs, had his first book titled “Modern Social Politics in Britain and Sweden” re-published with a new introduction in the European Consortium for Political Research’s “Classics” book series. He also gave a presentation titled “Obama and Executive Power” at the conference on President Obama, National Security and Executive Power at the Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy at Boston College.

John Paden, Robinson Professor of International Affairs, gave a presentation titled “Can the Religious Center Hold in Nigeria? Muslim Establishment Responses to Violent Extremism” at Johns Hopkins University, SAIS, conference on Religion and Politics in Africa. He also participated in a conference at the Fund for Peace on “Niger Delta Partnership Initiatives”; the Council on Foreign Relations discussions with the acting president of Nigeria; and a Council on Foreign Relations forum discussing “Nigeria: Dancing on the Brink.” He also gave lectures titled “Islam and Politics in Northern Nigeria” at the U.S. State Department and “Can the Religious and/or Political Center Hold in Nigeria” at the Academy for Educational Development.

James Trefil, Robinson Professor of Physics, gave a keynote address titled “Scientific Literacy: A Story in Three Heresies” at the American Chemical Society in San Francisco. He also reviewed three books for the Scientific and Technology section of the Washington Post.

Robinson Professors

Robert Hazen, Robinson Professor of Earth Sciences, gave lectures titled “How Evolution Works” at Loyola Marymount University, the Cosmos Club and the Carnegie Institution, and “The Deep Carbon Observatory” at the Institut de Physique du Globe, the U.S. Department of Energy of CalTech. He also served on the National Science Foundation’s Biosciences Directorate Advisory Board.

John Paden, Robinson Professor of International Affairs, gave a presentation titled “Is Nigeria a Hotbed of Islamic Extremism?” at the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington, D.C.

John Trefil, Robinson Professor of Physics, gave a centennial lecture titled “Science, Its History and Its Future” at St. Anne’s-Belfield School in Charlottesville, Va.

Robinson Professors

Robert Hazen, Robinson Professor of Earth Sciences, presented a lecture on mineral evolution at Scripps Research Institute, as well as a keynote lecture on evolution at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in San Diego.

Robinson Professors

John Paden, Robinson Professor of International Affairs, briefed the U.S. Senate on the situation in Nigeria. In addition, he gave a presentation titled “Islam in Nigeria” and participated in a senior level “Nigeria Forum” at the U.S. Department of State.