NCRC 2021
January 21 -24, 2021
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Keynote Speakers
Michael Rosbash
Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology or Medicine
Professor of Biology, Brandeis University
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Barbara Liskov
Ford Professor of Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department
2008 Turing Award Winner
One of the first women to receive a PhD in Computer Science in the United States
Holden Thorp
Editor-in-Chief of the Science Family of Journals, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Rita Levi-Montalcini Distinguished University Professor at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri
Sylvester James Gates, Jr.
Theoretical Physics Center Director, Brown University
Ford Foundation Professor of Physics and Affiliate Mathematics Professor, Watson Institute for International Studies & Public Affairs at Brown University.
National Medal of Science Awardee, 2013
Named the Harvard Foundation’s “Scientist of the Year”, 2014
Mahzarin Banaji
Richard Clarke Cabot Professor of Social Ethics, Harvard University
Harvard College Professor, 2014-2019
Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor at Radcliffe, 2002-2008
William James Fellow, Association of Psychology Science
Maya Ajmera
President and CEO, Society for Science
Publisher, Science News
National Science Board Public Service Award Winner, 2020
Published author of more than twenty award-winning children's books
Founder, Global Fund for Children
Magdalena Skipper
Editor-in-Chief, Nature
Dr. Skipper is the first ever woman to hold the position of Editor-in-Chief of Nature.
Previous Editor, Nature Reviews Genetics and Nature Communications.
Advisory Board Member, University of Oxford Centre for Personalised Medicine
Jeffrey C. Stewart
Professor, Chair of the Department of Black Studies at UC Santa Barbara, 2007-Present
Author of “The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke”, published in 2018. One of the few books of history that has won the 2018 National Book Award for Nonfiction and the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Biography.
