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Conferences and Meetings, 1963-2002 (continued)
Oct. 2-3, “Global Ecology: At the Frontier of a New Science,” Carnegie Institution of Washington, Stanford, Calif., 2000
2001
Jan. 10-17, Ralph M. Parsons Foundation meeting and Ahmanson Foundation meeting, Los Angeles, Calif., 2000-2001
Feb. 7, Advisory Panel on Research meeting, Association of American Medical Colleges, Washington, D.C., 2000-2001
Mar. 8, Richard Lounsbery Foundation meeting and Weizmann Institute of Science Presidential Search Committee meeting, New York, N.Y., 2000-2001
Mar. 14, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation meeting, New York, N.Y., 2001
Mar. 26-27, Entrepreneurship and Public Policy Commission meeting and Weizmann Institute of Science Presidential Search Committee meeting, London, England, 2000-2001
Apr. 9, Euan Baird and Philippe Lacour-Gayet visit, Washington, D.C., 2001
Apr. 10-12, National Aeronautics and Space Administration Astrobiology Institute annual meeting, Washington, D.C., 2001
Apr. 28-May 1, National Academy of Sciences annual meeting, Washington, D.C., 2001
May 1-6, Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation meeting, San Francisco, Calif.; and Stanford University and Carnegie Institution of Washington Board of Trustees meetings, Palo Alto, Calif, 2000-2001
May 15, “Reproductive Health Science Seminar,” New Brunswick, N.J., 2001
June 22, Perlegen Sciences Board meeting, Santa Clara, Calif., 2001
July 12-13, Committee on Organization and Management in Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics meeting, National Research Council, Palo Alto, Calif., 2001
July 27, Donald Fredrickson book party, American Society for Microbiology, Washington, D.C., 2001
Oct. 4-7, “Adaptive Agents, Intelligence, and Emergent Human Organization: Capturing Complexity through Agent-Based Modeling,” Arthur M. Sackler Colloquium, National Academy of Sciences, Irvine, Calif., 2001
Oct. 18-21, thirtieth anniversary conference, Association for Women in Science, Washington, D.C., 2001
Dec. 12, Carnegie Institution of Canada Board of Directors meeting, Montreal, Canada, 2001
BOX 64 2002
Jan. 7, 199th meeting, American Astronomical Society, Washington, D.C., 2001-2002
Jan. 16, DC Action for Children annual meeting, Washington, D.C., 2001-2002
Feb. 25-Mar. 1, Las Campanas Observatory visit, La Serena, Chile, 2001-2002
Mar. 13, Sarah T. Hughes Annual Lecture in Science, Goucher College, Baltimore, Md., 2002
Apr. 10-13, Director's Science Council meeting, National Aeronautics and Space Administration Astrobiology Institute, Moffett Field, Calif., 2002
Apr. 27, “Symposium on the Manhattan Project: Science in the Service of War,” Atomic Heritage Foundation, Washington, D.C., 2002
Apr. 27-30, National Academy of Sciences annual meeting, Washington, D.C., 2002
June 3-4, Weizmann Institute of Science, Women and Science Award Ceremony; and Vartan Gregorian, Jon Friedman, and Richard Foster meetings, New York, N.Y., 2002
June 12, Center for Science, Policy, and Outcomes salon meeting, Columbia University, New York, N.Y., 2002
June 13, U.S. Department of Commerce, Science and Technology Fellowship Program presentation, Washington, D.C., 2002
July 16, Perlegen Science Board meeting, Palo Alto, Calif., 2002
July 26, High Pressure Collaborative Access Team dedication ceremony, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Ill., 2002
Sept. 12, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Finance, Budget, and Operations Committee meeting and Lee Bollinger meeting, New York, N.Y., 2002
Sept. 27-28, Observatories Director Search Committee meeting and Pasadena Museum of History gala event, Pasadena, Calif., 2002
Oct. 8-10, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Department of Plant Biology Visiting Committee, Stanford University, Palo Alto, Calif.; and Women Leaders in Science seminar, University of California, San Francisco, Calif., 2002
BOX 64-69 Miscellany, 1952-2002
Correspondence, speeches and lectures, writings, drafts, notes, photographs, printed matter, and miscellaneous items.
Arranged alphabetically by type of material.
BOX 64 American Society for Microbiology News, 1976
Awards and certificates, 1952, 1969, 1988-1997 See also Oversize
Calendar, 1974
BOX 65 Congratulatory letters from Singer, 1990-1992
Diary of India trip, 1970
John Paul II, Pope, 1980
Photographs
Events, 1968, circa 1975- circa 2000
Family, circa 1959-1974
Laboratory photographs, circa 1959- circa 1963, 1969-1986
Portraits, 1967-1996
Pines, Maya, The New Human Genetics: A Cell Bank Helps Researchers Fight Inherited Disease, 1976
Speeches and lectures
1989, Oct. 27, “Biology: Forty Years at the Frontier,” Smithsonian Institution and the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C., 1989
1990
May 17, “Gene Structure and Function,” Foundation for Advanced Education in the Sciences, Bethesda, Md., 1990
Sept. 14, “Lessons from Mirrors,” Rockefeller University, New York, N.Y., 1990
1992, June 11, “Symposium on Women in Biomedical Careers: Dynamics of Change Keynote Address,” National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md., 1992-1993
1996
Feb. 13, “The Future of Science Museums: The Smithsonian as Test Case,” American Association for the Advancement of Science, Baltimore, Md., 1994-1996
Apr. 17, “Behind the Endless Frontier,” American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington, D.C., 1996
BOX 66 June 26, “GTE Growth Initiatives for Teachers Program Dinner Keynote Speech,” Mayflower Hotel, Washington, D.C., 1996
1997
Jan. 19, “New Knowledge, New Dilemmas, New Solutions,” U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C., 1997
Mar. 20, “Thoughts of a Nonmillenarian,” American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Washington, D.C., 1997
June 7, “Alumni Weekend Swarthmore Collection,” Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pa., 1997
1998, Sept. 11, “Remarks on Human Cloning,” Committee on Science and Human Values, National Conference of Catholic Bishops, Washington, D.C., 1998
1999, June 27, “Genetics and Health,” UNESCO, Budapest, Hungary, 1998-1999
(2 folders)
2000
Oct. 17, “Enhancing the Postdoctoral Experience for Scientists and Engineers: A Guide for Postdoctoral Scholars, Advisors, Institutions, Funding Organizations, and Disciplinary Societies: Opening Statement,” Association of American Medical Colleges, Savannah, Ga., 2000
Nov. 28, “Long Term, Creative Strategies for Addressing Public Interest Missions,” American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington, D.C., 1999-2000
2001
Feb. 23, “Genetically Modified Organisms,” Pontifical Academy of Sciences, Vatican City, 2000-2001
BOX 67 Sept. 21, “Invention: New Research Questions,” Yale University, New Haven, Conn., 2001-2002
(2 folders)
2002, Jan. 10, “Galaxies: Mind Over Matter,” a celebratory symposium for Vera Rubin, introduction for Allan Sandage, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington, D.C., 2001-2002
U.S. Congress, House of Representatives, Committee on Science and Technology, Subcommittee on Science, Research, and Technology, reports, 1974, 1980
Vacation, Pasadena, Calif., 2000
Writings
Articles about Singer, 1989-1990, 1996
Articles and miscellaneous writings by Singer
“Answers from Outside the Box,” Washington Post, 2001
“Assault on Science,” Washington Post, 1996
“Believing Is Not Understanding,” Washington Post, 1999
“Betting on Research,” in Nurturing Creativity in Research (1995), 1996
“The Challenge to Science: How to Mobilize American Ingenuity,” in The Age of Terror (2002), 2001-2002
“Cytoplasmic Ribonucleoprotein Complexes Containing Human LINE-1 Protein and RNA,” with Hirohiko Hohjoh, EMBO Journal, 1996
“DC Public Schools: Train the Teacher,” Washington Post, 1998
Editorial on bovine somatotropin, with Virginia Weldon, unpublished, 1990-1991
BOX 68 “Heroines and Role Models,” Science (1991), 1991-1997
“Hot Tomato,” Washington Post, 1993
“The Human LINE-1 Reverse Transcriptase Domain,” with Andrew Clements, Nucleic Acids Research, 1998
“I Can Do It,” Swarthmore College Bulletin, 1998
“An Inclusive Agenda for Change,” Washington Post, 2001
“LINE-1 Sequences: Human Transposable Elements,” in Evolutionary Tinkering in Gene Expression, 1989
“No, You Can't Make Dinosaurs,” Washington Post, 1993
”Nuclease Activity in Rabbit Reticulocytes,” with Paul Marks and Walter Farkas, Biochimica et Biophysica Acta, 1964
“Report on Spetsai,” unpublished, 1966
“Ribonuclease and High Salt Sensitivity of the Ribonucleoprotein Complex Formed by the Human LINE-1 Retrotransposon,” with Hirohiko Hohjoh, Journal of Molecular Biology, 1997
“Sensible Policy on Human Cloning,” with Paul Berg, Science, 1998
“Sequence-Specific Single-Strand RNA Binding Protein Encoded by the Human LINE-1 Retrotransposon,” with Hirohiko Hohjoh, EMBO Journal, 1997
“Shaping the Future for Women in Science,” American Society for Cell Biology Newsletter, 2000
“Strategies for the Future NIH Conference on Women in Biomedical Careers: Dynamics of Change: Strategies for the 21st Century Keynote Address,” Journal of Women's Health, 1992
“Unusual Reverse Transcriptases,” Journal of Biological Chemistry, 1994-1995, undated
“What Did the Asilomar Exercise Accomplish, What Did It Leave Undone?” Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, 2000
“Who Needs a Space Station?” with Donald Brown, Washington Post, 1992
Book reviews
Ferris, Timothy, Coming of Age in the Milky Way; Benno Muller-Hill, Murderous Science; and George F. Kennan, Sketches from a Life, in Washington Post Book World, 1990
Grobstein, Clifford, A Double Image of the Double Helix: The Recombinant DNA Debate, in Bioscience, 1979
Holmes, Frederick Lawrence, Meselson, Stahl, and the Replication of DNA, blurb for Yale University Press, 2001-2002
Mattfeld, Jacquelyn A., and Carol G. Van Aken, editors, Women and the Scientific Professions, in Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 1967
Richards, John, ed., Recombinant DNA: Science, Ethics, and Politics, in Quarterly Review of Biology, 1978-1979
Books
Dealing with Genes, with Paul Berg, 1989-1997
(2 folders)
BOX 69 Exploring Genetic Mechanisms, with Paul Berg, 1997-1999
Genes and Genomes, with Paul Berg
Correspondence, 1989-1997
(2 folders)
Drafts, 1989-1992
Reviews, 1991-1992
George Beadle, an Uncommon Farmer: The Emergence of Genetics in the 20th Century, with Paul Berg, 1996-2003
Why Black Holes Aren't Black, with Robert Hazen, 1995-2000
Collins Publishers, 1988
Letters to the editor
Science, 1990
Washington Post, 1991, 1999
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