Advancing Science
Former congressman to deliver Glover Memorial Lecture
Rush Holt
Former New Jersey Congressman Rush Holt, who now serves as CEO of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), will present the Glover Memorial Lecture on Wednesday, Sept. 9, at 7 p.m. in the Anita Tuvin Schlechter (ATS) Auditorium, 360 West Louther Street.
Holt will discuss the value of advancing the sciences, which he contends leads to the most reliable knowledge that we can apply to everyday life. He argues that science needs the support of the society it serves and that support must be cultivated.
In addition to his position at AAAS, Holt is executive publisher of the Science family of journals. He served for 16 years as a member of Congress, representing New Jersey’s 12th congressional district. He was a senior member of the Committee on Natural Resources and the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and also established a long track record of advocacy for federal investment in research and development, science education and innovation. His legislative work earned him numerous accolades, including being named one of Scientific American magazine’s “50 National Visionaries Contributing to a Brighter Technological Future” and a “Champion of Science” by the Science Coalition.
Holt also received awards from the American Chemical Society, the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, the Council of Scientific Society Presidents, the American Geophysical Union and the Biotechnology Industry Organization. In addition, Holt is a past recipient of two of AAAS’s highest honors: the William D. Carey Lectureship Award and the Philip Hauge Abelson Award.
The Glover Memorial Lecture Series, a lectureship in science, was established in 1958 in memory of John Glover of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, the inventor of the Glover Tower, and in memory of his son and grandson, Henry and Lester Glover, by the late Dr. John D. Yeagley and Mrs. Yeagley of York, Pa.
The program is sponsored by the Clarke Forum for Contemporary Issues and the Glover Memorial Lecture Fund, and co-sponsored by the departments of physics & astronomy, policy studies and political science, and the Churchill Fund.
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Published September 4, 2015