Many thanks to our 2007 UCSD Near You Speakers

UC San Diego: Creating the “Green Collar” Leaders of Tomorrow
San Francisco - September 25

Silicon Valley - September 26

A.D.J. "Tony" Haymet, Ph.D.
Director, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Dr. A.D.J. "Tony" Haymet became Vice Chancellor for Marine Sciences, Director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Dean of the Graduate School of Marine Sciences, UC San Diego, in September 2006. Dr. Haymet is a highly distinguished researcher who comes to UC San Diego from his position as the Science and Policy Director and former Chief of Marine and Atmospheric Science at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), Australia's national science agency. CSIRO is one of the largest and most diverse research agencies in the world. Dr. Haymet, who is a tenured professor of oceanography at Scripps. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and a Doctor of Science from the University of Sydney.

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Robert S. Sullivan, Ph.D.
Dean, Rady School of Management

Robert S. Sullivan joined the Rady School of Management at UC San Diego as its founding dean in January 2003. Dr. Sullivan is an expert on entrepreneurship, knowledge management and operations management.

Under Dr. Sullivan’s leadership, the Rady School of Management has matriculated three executive MBA classes and two Full-Time MBA classes. Dr. Sullivan has successfully recruited top-tier faculty, from universities such as Yale, MIT, New York University, UCLA and the University of Texas. In addition, Athena (a leading organization for women in the San Diego technology and business community) and the Beyster Institute integrated with the Rady School, thereby increasing the school’s brand in San Diego and throughout the world. The Rady School moved to their new building, Otterson Hall, in June 2007.

Prior to joining UC San Diego, Dr. Sullivan was dean of the Kenan-Flagler Business School of The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and dean of the School of Industrial Administration at Carnegie Mellon University.

Dr. Sullivan holds a doctorate in operations management from Pennsylvania State University, a master's degree in production management and quantitative methods from Cornell University and a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Boston College.

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Mark H. Thiemens, Ph.D.
Dean, Division of Physical Sciences

Mark H. Thiemens is Dean of the Division of Physical Sciences at UCSD and a professor at UCSD’s Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. Professor Thiemens is an atmospheric chemist who conducts research on atmospheric aerosols and strategies to detect bioterrorist agents on aerosols. He has served as chair of UCSD’s Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and is founder and director of the university’s Center for Environmental Research and Training.

Professor Thiemens joined the UCSD faculty in 1980, coming from the Enrico Fermi Institute for Nuclear Studies of the University of Chicago. In his first year, Thiemens discovered a new variety of isotope effects which overturned conventional theory regarding the formation and evolution of the solar system. This work has been extended and applied to a wide range of issues. His research has utilized rocket-borne sampling to understand the chemistry of the earth’s upper atmosphere, especially for ozone chemistry. His program also utilizes a global sampling program, employing ER-2 aircraft, stratospheric balloons, and ships to understand and resolve issues in global climate warming. His research has taken him to the remotest regions of the Earth, including a trip to the South Pole. His work has also extended to samples from Mars to resolve the evolution of the Martian atmosphere and the potential for life on that planet. He is presently working on a spacecraft that will fly and collect samples of the sun and Mars for return analysis to understand the evolution of the solar system. He has twice received the Alexander Von Humboldt awards and received the E.O. Lawrence Award from the U.S. Department of Energy in 1998. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2002 and to the National Academy of Sciences in 2006. He was also elected a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union in 2006. Recently, an asteroid or “minor planet”, 7004 Markthiemens, was named for him.

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How China’s Internal Politics Could Derail its Peaceful Rise

Two unique Los Angeles Venues

Santa Monica - October 16

Pasadena - October 17

Susan Shirk, Ph.D.
Director, UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation

Susan Shirk is director of the University of California system-wide Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation and professor of political science in the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California, San Diego. Professor Shirk first traveled to China in 1971 and has been doing research there ever since.

During 1997-2000, Dr. Shirk served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau of East Asia and Pacific Affairs, with responsibility for the People’s Republic of China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Mongolia.

She founded in 1993 and continues to lead the Northeast Asia Cooperation Dialogue (NEACD), an unofficial “track-two” forum for discussions of security issues among defense and foreign ministry officials and academics from the United States, Japan, China, Russia, South Korea, and North Korea.

Dr. Shirk’s publications include her books, How China Opened Its Door: The Political Success of the PRC’s Foreign Trade and Investment Reforms; The Political Logic of Economic Reform in China; and Competitive Comrades: Career Incentives and Student Strategies in China. Her latest book, China: Fragile Superpower, will be published by Oxford University Press in Spring 2007.

Dr. Shirk served as a member of the U.S. Defense Policy Board, the Board of Governors for the East-West Center (Hawaii), the Board of Trustees of the U.S.-Japan Foundation, and the Board of Directors of the National Committee on United States-China Relations. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and an emeritus member of the Aspen Strategy Group. As Senior Adviser to The Albright Group, Dr. Shirk advises private sector clients on China and East Asia. Dr. Shirk received her BA in Political Science from Mount Holyoke College, her MA in Asian Studies from the University of California, Berkeley, and her Ph.D. in Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Signed copies of Shirk’s most recent acclaimed book, China: Fragile Superpower will be available during the evening.

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The Changing Political Landscape
Orange County, California - March 13

Samuel L. Popkin, Ph.D.
Professor of Political Science, UCSD
Department of Political Science

A leading elections expert and Professor of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego since 1975, Samuel Popkin has played a role in the development of rational choice theory within political science. He is also noted for his work on public opinion. He has been a pollster in five presidential campaigns, including the 1992 Clinton campaign and the 2000 Gore campaign. He also consulted with the CBS News election units from 1983 to 1990. Popkin has also served as consultant to political parties in Asia, Canada and Europe and to the Departments of State and Defense.

Popkin is the author of “The Reasoning Voter: Communication and Persuasion in Presidential Campaigns;” earlier he co-authored “Issues and Strategies: The Computer Simulation of Presidential Campaigns.” He is co-editor "Element of Reason" and "Chief of Staff: Twenty-Five Years of Managing the Presidency.” Popkin is equally well known for his work on peasant society, with particular reference to East and Southeast Asia. His current research focuses on presidential campaigns and the relationship of public opinion to foreign policy. Ph.D., B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Gershon Shafir Ph.D.
Professor of Sociology at UC San Diego
Director of the Institute of International, Comparative, and Area Studies
Institute of International Studies

From the destruction of the World Trade Center, London Underground bombings and the Madrid train explosions, international terrorism has taken center stage in the last decade. Where do the roots of this discord begin and how can we interpret them as a part of our modern world?

UC San Diego sociology professor, Dr. Gershon Shafir has authored and edited numerous books and articles focusing on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, peacemaking, nationalism, and human rights. His articles have appeared in the American Journal of Sociology, the British Journal of Sociology and the International Journal of Middle East Studies. In 2002 he received the Middle Eastern Studies Association’s Albert Hourani Award for best book on the Middle East.

In July 2006, Dr. Shafir was named to serve a five year term as the director of the Institute for International, Comparative, and Area Studies at UC San Diego. The Institute was created to promote research on international, comparative and cross regional topics. Dr. Shafir will lend his extensive background and expertise to the UCSD Near You program in an effort to provide additional perspective on the recent explosion of political and religiously inspired violence throughout the world. Ph.D., University California, Berkeley; M.A., University of California, Los Angeles; B.A., Political Science, Sociology, Anthropology and Economics, Tel-Aviv University.

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Dr. Lawrence S. B. Goldstein, ’76
Professor of Cellular & Molecular Medicine, UC San Diego School of Medicine
Director of the Stem Cell Research Program, UC San Diego
UCSD School of Medicine

Larry Goldstein has been a Professor of Cellular and Molecular Medicine at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine since 1993. Head the university’s stem cell training program, Goldstein maintains his offices and labs on the top floor of the Leichtag Family Foundation Biomedical Research Building on the UCSD School of Medicine campus, which is leased to the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, a private philanthropy. As one of 300 Howard Hughes investigators nationwide (there are seven at UCSD), he has the luxury of pursuing stem cell research in a state-of-the-art space that is insulated from federal legal constraints.

Goldstein has played an active role in national science policy, serving on many public science advisory committees and testifying in the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate about National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding and stem cell research. Goldstein uses human stem cells in his studies of neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease, Lou Gehrig’s disease and Huntington’s disease. Ph.D., University of Washington, Seattle; B.A., University of California, San Diego.

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Patricia S. Churchland, BPhil
Professor and Chair of the Philosophy Department, UC San Diego
UCSD Department of Philosophy

Pat Churchland focuses her studies on the interface between neuroscience and philosophy, with a belief that studying how the brain works is essential to understanding the mind. Her research includes the exploration of the impact of neuroscientific developments on our understanding of consciousness, the self, free will, decision making, ethics, learning and religion, with a central hypothesis that the mind is the brain.

Churchland has taught as a professor of Philosophy at UC San Diego since 1984 and currently serves as chair of the department. At the Salk Institute, Churchland is an adjunct professor and also works as an associate of the institute’s Computational Neuroscience Laboratory.

Churchland received the prestigious MacArthur prize in 1991 for her groundbreaking theories. She serves as chair of the executive board for the Institute for Neural Computation at UCSD, as well as on the board of advisors for the Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience at the university. Churchland was recently featured with her husband and fellow philosopher, Paul Churchland, Ph.D., in The New Yorker for their pioneering work. B. Phil., Oxford University; M.A., University of Pittsburg; B.A., University of British Columbia.

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Dr. Michael Kalichman, ’75
Adjunct Professor of Pathology, UC San Diego, School of Medicine
Director of the Research Ethics Program, UC San Diego
UCSD Research Ethics Program

Michael Kalichman, Ph.D., is a member of the UC San Diego Division of Neuropathology in the Department of Pathology and is the director of the UCSD Research Ethics Program. He has taught about research ethics for nearly 20 years, and became the director of the UCSD Research Ethics Program in 1997. Kalichman currently teaches multiple courses in research ethics for graduate students and post doctorate researchers.

A frequent speaker on research ethics throughout the country, Kalichman is the creator of an Internet-based resource to help institutions develop programs of instruction in the responsible conduct of research. He also leads a National Institutes of Health-funded (NIH) project to assess the effectiveness of teaching research ethics.

Kalichman is president of the national Responsible Conduct of Research Education Consortium. He is the co-director and co-founder of the San Diego Center for Ethics in Science and Technology, and co-chair of the UCSD Embryonic Stem Cell Research Oversight Committee. Ph.D., University of Toronto; M.Ap.Sc., University of Toronto; B.A., University of California, San Diego.

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Judith Dolan, Ph.D.
Professor of Design, Department of Theatre and Dance, UC San Diego
Associate Dean, Division of Arts and Humanities
UCSD Department of Theatre and Dance

Judith Dolan is an award-winning costume and set designer, and professor of design in UCSD’s Theatre and Dance Department—which currently ranks third in the nation for graduate Masters of Fine Arts studies.

Dolan has designed costumes and sets for a wide range of works in theatre, opera, film and television. She has collaborated with director Harold Prince on several productions including the much anticipated musical, LoveMusik, which will open on Broadway in May. She also worked with Prince on the Broadway production of Candide for which she received a 1997 Tony Award for Best Costume Design. Her costume design for the production of The Petrified Prince at the Public Theater in New York City earned her the Lucille Lortelle Award for Excellence in Costume Design and a 1995 Drama Desk nomination.

Her costume and set designs have been seen in prestigious theatrical performances throughout the United States, as well as internationally. Other theatrical credits include costumes for the original Broadway production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, the award-winning Broadway musical Parade by Alfred Uhry and Hollywood Arms, a play scripted by Carol Burnett and Carrie Hamilton. Ph.D., MFA, Stanford University.

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Saj-nicole A. Joni, ’73, Ph.D.
CEO, Cambridge International Group Ltd.

Saj-nicole Joni is an internationally known business strategist and Third Opinion adviser to senior executives and high-potential leaders, providing insight into high stakes issues at the intersection of strategy, action and complexity. Her clients include a cadre of C-level executives at the Global 200 firms, top leaders in higher education and CEOs of smaller firms.

Joni is a leading pioneer of Third Opinion counsel and has championed its place in the halls of corporate power. Author of book The Third Opinion: How Successful Leaders Use Outside Insight to Create Superior Results, Joni also writes a monthly column on business leadership for Forbes.com.

Joni is a former Microsoft and CSC Index executive with several prestigious board memberships. She is a Fellow at Harvard’s Center for Public Leadership and a Senior Fellow at Katzenbach Partners Ltd. Joni served for over ten years on the faculties of MIT, Carnegie Mellon University and Wellesley College. Ph.D., M.A., B.A., Mathematics, University of California, San Diego.

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