University of Maryland, Baltimore County president Freeman Hrabowski shared his insights on building and sustaining an inclusive, high achieving, and innovative university. He was interviewed by author and Robin Hood CEO Wes Moore.
Historian Megan Kate Nelson looked at how the Civil War impacted the American West as the Union and Confederate armies fought for control of the territory.
University of Texas journalism professor Kate Winkler Dawson looked at the life of Edward Oscar Heinrich, America's first forensic scientist, who was integral in introducing the use of ballistics, blood spatter analysis, and fingerprints as evidence in legal cases.
University of Maryland, Baltimore County president Freeman Hrabowski shared his insights on building and sustaining an inclusive, high achieving, and innovative university. He was interviewed by author and Robin Hood CEO Wes Moore.
Historian Megan Kate Nelson looked at how the Civil War impacted the American West as the Union and Confederate armies fought for control of the territory.
The National Institute of Health's Jeremy Brown provided a history of the 1918 flu pandemic, which killed between 50-100 million people, and offered his thoughts on how prepared we are for the next pandemic.
A panel on viruses from the 2016 Brooklyn Book Festival featuring Carl Zimmer, "A Planet of Viruses" and Ed Young, "I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life." The discussion is moderated by Sonia Shah, author of "Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond."
Ali Khan talked about his book, "The Next Pandemic: On the Front Lines Against Humankind's Gravest Dangers," in which he examines the world's deadliest diseases, possible new threats, lessons that can be learned from both, and safety measures that can be put into practice for the next pandemic.
Gina Kolata discussed her book "Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus that Caused It," published by Farrar Straus and Giroux. The author pieced together a picture, through letters, interviews, news reports, and recent research into the virus, of the devastating flu outbreak of 1918, which killed 40 million people worldwide.
Author David Quammen talked about his book, "Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic," in which he looked at diseases like Ebola, SARS, avian flu, and AIDS that originated in animals but spread to humans and talks about the threat of this kind of "spillover" in the future. Mr. Quammen spoke at Politics and Prose in Washington, DC.
Reuters reporter David Randall recounted the efforts of health officials to contain a case of the bubonic plague that was diagnosed in San Francisco in 1900.
The National Institute of Health's Jeremy Brown provided a history of the 1918 flu pandemic, which killed between 50-100 million people, and offered his thoughts on how prepared we are for the next pandemic.
A panel on viruses from the 2016 Brooklyn Book Festival featuring Carl Zimmer, "A Planet of Viruses" and Ed Young, "I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life." The discussion is moderated by Sonia Shah, author of "Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond."
Ali Khan talked about his book, "The Next Pandemic: On the Front Lines Against Humankind's Gravest Dangers," in which he examines the world's deadliest diseases, possible new threats, lessons that can be learned from both, and safety measures that can be put into practice for the next pandemic.
Gina Kolata discussed her book "Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus that Caused It," published by Farrar Straus and Giroux. The author pieced together a picture, through letters, interviews, news reports, and recent research into the virus, of the devastating flu outbreak of 1918, which killed 40 million people worldwide.
Author David Quammen talked about his book, "Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic," in which he looked at diseases like Ebola, SARS, avian flu, and AIDS that originated in animals but spread to humans and talks about the threat of this kind of "spillover" in the future. Mr. Quammen spoke at Politics and Prose in Washington, DC.
