1987
A 2-day symposium entitled “Science, Universities and Society in the 21st Century” was held at University of Arizona in Tucson. The program examined the role of science in contemporary higher education: how scientists should be educated and how people should be educated about science.
Talks included: “Commodity Coeducation: Science and the University in Historical Perspective” by David Nobel, a historian from Drexel University; “Big Science, Small University: Trends and Issues” by 1988 Nobel Laureate in physics Leon Lederman, director of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and subsequently at University of Chicago; “The Human Scientist and the Human Sciences” by philosopher Philip Kitcher of University of California, San Diego; “From the Tower to the Trenches: The University and the High-Tech Race” by Dorothy Nelkin of Cornell University; and “Equality and Difference” by biologist Ruth Hubbard of Harvard University. At the end of the conference, author Sheila Tobias provided a summary. Participants were invited to discuss and ask questions at the end of each presentation.
The symposium, which was free and open to the public, was sponsored by Research Corporation in celebration of its 75th anniversary and by University of Arizona in honor of the beginning of the University’s second century.