1. Combined Event Sunday, March 16th The Terrace Room, Stockholm School of Economics, Holländargatan 32, top floor Although we were unable to have a Nobel Reception in December, we will have the honor to meet with Dr. Carl Djerassi, Professor Emeritus at Stanford, and his wife Diane Middlebrook, Professor Emerita also at Stanford. In order to meet with them, we have postponed our annual Valentine Wine and Annual Club Meeting until their visit. We will combine the the Annual Club Meeting with their visit as we did a few years ago when the vice-provost of undergraduate education, Dr. John Bravman, was here. This year we will meet in the Terrace Room at the Stockholm School of Economics. Some of you may remember this room from a few years ago where we had our first Nobel Receptions. The room offers a beautiful view over the rooftops of Stockholm. Dr. Carl Djerassi is most well know as the founder of the contraceptive pill (p-pillen). But in recent years he has turned to writing fiction and plays. He is supposed to be a most entertaining presenter so I am sure an evening with him should be very interesting. More info on him can be found below and at www.djerassi.com/. 1a. Annual Stanford Club Meeting Sunday, March 16th The Terrace Room, Stockholm School of Economics, Holländargatan 32, top floor 18.00 to 19.00 Please join us for our annual planning meeting first. We will meet for one hour before the dinner is to begin with Dr. Carl Djerassi at 19.00. The meeting is free of charge and we will discuss last year's activities as well as our plans for the coming year. 1b. Dinner with Professor Emeritus Carl Djerassi Sunday, March 16th The Terrace Room, Stockholm School of Economics, Holländargatan 32, top floor 19.00 to 22.00 This year we are having our annual dinner catered at the Terrace Room at the Stockholm School of Economics. The cost of dinner and wine will be 250 kr per person. If you would like to suggest a wine, please let Charly know. Please contact Charly Hultén at inotherwords@swipnet.se or telephone: 08 25 28 62 by March 7th if you are interested in attending. ------------Information on Carl Djerassi------------ Carl Djerassi, emeritus professor of chemistry at Stanford University, is one of the few American scientists to have been awarded both the National Medal of Science (for the first synthesis of a steroid oral contraceptive--"the Pill") and the National Medal of Technology (for promoting new approaches to insect control). A member of the US National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences as well as many foreign academies, Djerassi has received 19 honorary doctorates together with numerous other honors, such as the first Wolf Prize in Chemistry, the first Award for the Industrial Application of Science from the National Academy of Sciences, and the American Chemical Society's highest award, the Priestley Medal. For the past 15 years, he has turned to fiction writing, mostly in the genre of "science-in-fiction," whereby he illustrates, in the guise of realistic fiction, the human side of scientists and the personal conflicts faced by scientists in their quest for scientific knowledge, personal recognition, and financial rewards. In addition to 5 novels ("Cantor's Dilemma;" "The Bourbaki Gambit;" "Marx, deceased;" "Menachem's Seed;" "NO"), short stories ("The Futurist and Other Stories"), autobiography ("The Pill, Pygmy Chimps, and Degas' Horse") and memoir ("This Man's Pill"), he embarked in 1997 on a series of "science-in-theatre" plays. He is also the founder of the Djerassi Resident Artists Program near Woodside, California, which provides residencies and studio space for artists in the visual arts, literature, choreography and performing arts, and music. Over 1200 artists have passed through that program since its inception in 1982. 2. Informational Evening on the Wallenberg Hall at Stanford April or May Time to be decided The Wallenberg Foundation donated $15 million to build the Wallenberg Hall at Stanford, which is designed to support innovation and collaboration in learning. We hope to arrange an informational evening on the new Wallenberg Hall sometime in April or May. More information on the hall can be found at http://wallenberg.stanford.edu/. Please respond by April 1st to Robin Teigland at robin@teigland.com or 08 755 2172 if you would like to attend this event. . |
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