November 8, 2007

The Lyric Theatre, Blacksburg
and The Graduate Life Center at Donaldson Brown

Project Founder: Doris T. Zallen
Project Directors: Eileen Crist, Daniel Breslau, Saul Halfon
 Research Associate: Brandiff Caron

For more information, contact the Choices and Challenges Project, Department of Science and Technology in Society
 Virgina Tech, Mail Code: 0247
Blacksburg, Virginia 24061
Phone: 540 231-6476
Email: choices@vt.edu

Panelists

Donald Aitken is currently Principal of Donald Aitken Associates, and Affiliate Faculty Member at the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture. He was founder and Chairman of the Department of Environmental Studies at San Jose State University, where he was named "Professor of the Year," and was a staff research physicist and astrophysicist at Stanford University. He is internationally known as an expert on renewable energy, basing his work on a clear understanding of Earth’s living system.

Timothy Foresman has over a quarter of a century’s experience as a scientist, professor, author with over 90 scientific publications, inventor, entrepreneur, consultant, manager, administrator, and world traveler. Dr. Foresman has served on the faculties of the University of Maryland in the US and Keio University in Japan; and is president of ICRSE, a non-profit organization for educational and research of remote sensing and spatial information systems; as well as president of Global Water (www.globalwater.org).

Martin Ogle has been Chief Naturalist for the Northern Virginia Regional Park Authority since 1985. He holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Wildlife Biology from Colorado State University and Virginia Tech, respectively. Mr. Ogle has presented more than 100 lectures and courses on the Gaia Theory for universities, public groups, and other audiences since 1990. He has met and talked with many of the top scientists in Gaia Theory research. His meetings and correspondence with Drs. James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis helped inspire the development of the Gaia Theory conference.
Kenneth Rogers served as a Commissioner of the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for ten years.  First appointed by President Reagan for a five-year term I was reappointed for a second five-year term by President Bush. He has experience working with international organizations in nuclear safety matters; has met with legislators of several foreign countries to assist them in formulating national policies on nuclear safety, and recently completed service on a small international group of experts to provide advice for the long term to the Secretary-General of the international Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
Matthew L. Wald is a staff reporter in the New York Times Washington Bureau where he has reported extensively on transportation safety and energy issues. Before joining the Washington bureau in September 1996, Wald covered transportation for the metropolitan desk for three years. From October 1993 until February 1998, he covered energy and environment for Business Day.
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Langdon Winner is the Thomas Phelan Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of Science and Technology Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Winner is a political theorist who focuses upon social and political issues that surround modern technological change. He is the author of Autonomous Technology, a study of the idea of "technology-out-of-control" in modern social thought, The Whale and The Reactor: A Search for Limits in an Age of High Technology, and editor of Democracy in a Technological Society.