What happens when science and politics mix it up? The Center for Science in Society hopes to provide voters with some insight into the multiple intersections of science and electoral politics with a panel discussion titled "Science Policy and the 2004 Election" in Park 243 from 4 to 5 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 6. The discussion will feature R. Stephen Berry and John P. Holdren, both eminent scientists with significant experience in public policy. The event is free and open to the public.

Berry

Berry is the the James Franck Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago and special adviser to the director for national security at Argonne National Laboratory. A physical chemist, Berry heads a research group that focuses its work on structures, properties and dynamics of clusters and biopolymers. He is a member of several scientific organizations ranging from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences to the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and served as home secretary of the National Academy of Sciences from 1999 until 2003. His laurels include the J. Heyrovsky Honorary Medal for Merit in the Chemical Sciences and the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung Senior Scientist Award, among others.

Holdren

Holdren is the Teresa and John Heinz Professor of Environmental Policy and Director of the Program on Science, Technology and Public Policy at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, as well as Professor of Environmental Science and Public Policy in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University. Trained in aeronautics/astronautics and plasma physics at MIT and Stanford, he previously co-founded and co-led for 23 years the interdisciplinary graduate degree program in energy and resources at the University of California at Berkeley. He is Chair of the Committee on International Security and Arms Control of the National Academy of Sciences and was a member of President Clinton's Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST). In connection with PCAST, Holdren chaired studies for the White House on protection of nuclear-bomb materials, the U.S. fusion-energy R&D program, and energy R&D strategy for the climate-change challenge.

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