Festival Events

On Thursday, the Festival held a special event in partnership with the Global Nomads Group and the ParnassusWorks Foundation. Students groups from high schools around North America screened the documentary Naturally Obsessed: The Making of a Scientist, an intense, heartfelt and at times humorous portrait of life in a molecular biology lab. Then they came together via videoconference and engaged in an informative and inspiring conversation with the filmmakers—scientist-turned-filmmaker Richard Rifkind and author/educator Carole Rifkind—and one of the featured characters from the film, Rob Townley, who was a grad student in the lab during the period in which it was filmed. read more

Students from the Brooklyn International High School have been researching the life and work of Harold Varmus to prepare for the Pioneers in Science event, during which three representatives from the group will interview Dr. Varmus. As part of the preparation, the students visited the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory’s Harlem DNA Lab to perform a bacterial transformation experiment. Their experience was filmed read more

Students from the Brooklyn International High School have been researching the life and work of Harold Varmus to prepare for the Pioneers in Science event, during which three representatives from the group will interview Dr. Varmus. As part of the preparation, the students visited the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory’s Harlem DNA Lab to perform a bacterial transformation experiment. Their experience was filmed. read more

Here are a few images from Sunday’s World Science Festival events.

String theory pioneer Leonard Susskind, historian of science Peter Galison, and moderator (and Nobel Laureate in medicine) Paul Nurse in Beyond Einstein: In Search of the Ultimate Explanation. (Image: Getty Images) read more

Here are some visual impressions of Friday’s events:

Giulio Tononi, Doug Liman and James Schamus at The Brain and Bourne. (Image: Getty Images) read more

Here are some visual impressions from the first day of the World Science Festival:

Sam Shepard on horses, cacti and a film stunt gone awry at Toil and Trouble… Stories of Experiments Gone Wrong. (Image: Getty Images) read more