MUSEUM OVERVIEW

Expert Advisors

The Museum Advisory Board and Scientific Steering Committees, comprised of leading experts in the fields of biology, geoscience, climatology, genomics, medicine, astronomy, physics, and environmental science, assist museum staff and designers in all facets of exhibit development to ensure scientific accuracy and objectivity.

Museum Advisory Board

• Chairman: Donald Kennedy, President Emeritus and Bing Professor of Environmental Science Emeritus, Stanford University
• Bruce Alberts, Editor-in-Chief, Science, Professor Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco
• Robert Fri, Senior Fellow, Resources for the Future
• Gail F. Koshland Wachtel, Lecturer, College of Medicine, Department of Physiology, University of Arizona
• R. Duncan Luce, UCI Distinguished Research Professor of Cognitive Sciences and Economics, Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Science, University of California, Irvine, California
• Robert C. Richardson, Vice Provost for Research and F.R. Newman Professor of Physics, Cornell University
• Andries van Dam, Vice President for Research, Thomas J. Watson University Professor of Technology and Education, Brown University
• Ralph J. Cicerone (ex officio), President, National Academy of Sciences

Safe Drinking Water is Essential (www.drinking-water.org) Committee

• Chairman: Daniel P. Loucks, Cornell University
• Peter H. Gleick, Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security
• Simón González, National Autonomous University of Mexico
• James M. Hughes, Emory University
• Robert M. Hirsch, U.S. Geological Survey
• Kimberly Jones, Howard University
• R. Rhodes Trussell, Trussell Technologies
• Henry J. Vaux, University of California/Berkeley
• Hamé M.Watt, Independent Consultant, Washington, DC

Infectious Disease: Evolving Challenges to Human Health Committee

• Chairman: Elliot Kieff, Harriet Ryan Albee Professor, Departments of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, Harvard University
• Gail Cassell, Vice President, Scientific Affairs and Distinguished Lilly Research Scholar for Infectious Disease, Eli Lilly & Co.
• Bryan Grenfell, Alumni Professor in Biology, Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics, Pennsylvania State University
• Diane Griffin, Professor and Chair, Molecular Microbiology & Immunology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University
• Michael Osterholm, Professor and Director, Center for Infectious Disease Research & Public Policy, University of Minnesota
• Peter Palese, Professor and Chair, Department of Microbiology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
• David Relman, Associate Professor of Medicine, Microbiology , and Immunology, Stanford University

Global Warming Facts & Our Future Committee

• Chairman: Eugene Rasmusson, Professor of Meteorology, Senior Research Scholar emeritus, College of Computer, Mathematics & Physical Sciences, University of Maryland
• Richard Alley, Professor of Geosciences, Earth & Mineral Sciences Environment Institute, Pennsylvania State University
• Ann Fisher, Senior Scientist, Department of Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology, Pennsylvania State University
• Jerry Mahlman, Senior Research Associate, National Center for Atmospheric Research
• Pieter Tans, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; Professor Adjoint, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Colorado
• Mike Wallace, Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean; Professor, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle

Wonders of Science Committee

• Chairman: Robert Kirshner, Professor of Astronomy, Associate Director, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
• Daniel Kleppner, Director, MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms; Associate Director, Research Laboratory of Electronics, MIT
• James S. Langer, Professor of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara; Vice President, National Academy of Sciences
• Richard Losick, Professor of Biology, Harvard University

Putting DNA to Work Committee

• Chairman: Daniel Koshland, Jr., Professor, Graduate School, Division of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, University of California, Berkeley
• Bruce Alberts, Professor, University of California, San Francisco
• David Botstein, Director, Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University
• Christopher Somerville, Professor, Department of Plant Biology, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Stanford University
• Brian J. Staskawicz, Professor, Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley

For detailed biographies of the museum’s advisors, contact the Media Office.