Sixteen University of Colorado at Boulder faculty members, researchers and graduate students will address topics ranging from space policy under the Bush Administration and decision making in the "new" nuclear age to policy implications of climate change on Friday, Feb. 25.
Sponsored by the CIRES Center for Science and Technology Policy Research, the daylong Symposium on Science, Technology and Decision Making is free and open to the public. The symposium will highlight the diversity of high-quality research underway at CU-Boulder related to science, technology and decision making by a wide range of scholars, said center Director Roger Pielke, Jr.
Hosted by the campus-based Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, the symposium will be held from 8:45 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in the CIRES Auditorium, located in the Ekeley Sciences Building. The event will include 16 presentations, each lasting 20 minutes, and a lunch break from noon to 1:30 pm. Registration is not required.
CIRES is a joint institute of CU-Boulder and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA.
For more information and a schedule of presentations see the symposium Web site at: . Directions to the CIRES Auditorium are available on the Web at: .