Materials and news from Science Week 2008

Minister of Research and Higher Education Tora Aasland opened Science Week 2008 in Ottawa together with Canada’s deputy Minister of International Trade, Marie-Lucie Morin. In Washington D.C. Kathie Olsen, Deputy Director, National Science Foundation and Nina Fedoroff, Science Adviser to the US Secretary of State held opening keynote speaches from the US side, while Kyrre Lekve, Political adviser to Minister Aasland, and Arvid Hallén, Director General, Research Council of Norway held opening speeches from the Norwegian side. Robert H Shoemaker, Chief, Screening Technologies Branch, NCI held the opening keynote for the TRISCancer symposium at Carnegie Institution, and Sharon Hrynkow, Associate Director, NIEHS, welcomed the Science Week Biobank Symposium to the Stone House at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda. More than 125 speakers contributed to the high quality of this year’s program with a total of more than 350 registered participants for the Museum of Civilizations in Ottawa, The Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington DC and at the NIH in Bethesda MD. Presentations and reports will be made available below.

Material from Science Week 2008:

• Power Point Presentations
• Power Point Presentations
• Program
• Power Point Presentations
• Program
• Report from Science Week in Washington, D.C.
• Power Point Presentations
• Program
• Report from Science Week in Washington, D.C.
• Speaker biographies Power Point Presentations
• Program
• Report from Science Week in Washington, D.C.
• Speaker biographies
• Power Point Presentations
• Program
• Report from Science Week in Washington, D.C.
• Speaker biographies
• List of registered participants
• Power Point Presentations
• Program
• Report from Science Week in Washington, D.C.
• Speaker biographies
• List of registered participants
• Pictures from Science Week in Ottawa
• Power Point Presentations
• Program
• Report from Science Week in Washington, D.C.
• Speaker biographies
• List of registered participants
• Pictures from Science Week in Ottawa
• Pictures from Science Week in Washington, D.C.
• Power Point Presentations
• Program
• Report from Science Week in Washington, D.C.
• Speaker biographies
• List of registered participants
• Pictures from Science Week in Ottawa
• Pictures from Science Week in Washington, D.C.
• Pictures from Science Week at NIH, Bethesda
• Power Point Presentations
• Program
• Report from Science Week in Washington, D.C.
• Speaker biographies
• List of registered participants
• Pictures from Science Week in Ottawa
• Pictures from Science Week in Washington, D.C.
• Pictures from Science Week at NIH, Bethesda
• Evaluation Summary
  

Power Point Presentations

Two High Schools in Oslo and Washington DC have biotech programs and research partners. The teams from Ullern Senior High School in Oslo and McKinley Technology High School in Washington DC had their first face to face meetings during Science Week. Back row from left: Dr Berit Johne, Science Counselor, Norwegian Embassy; Mr Joseph Isaac, McKinley Biotechnology Teacher; Ms Marlena L Jones, CASE Coordinator of Programs; Henry Spencer, McKinley Senior and IT intern at Carnegie; Professor Kaare Norum, University of Oslo; Mr Pål Riis, Principal, Ullern High School; Dr Jarle Breivik, Director of Medical Students Research Program, University of Oslo. Front row from left: Dr Julie Edmonds, co-director CASE; Dr Toby Horn, co-director, CASE; Stephanie Navarette, DCBiotech intern at Catholic University; Ms Siv Jacobsen, Program Coordinator, Ullern High School. 
Photo: Arild Strømmen