INvited lectures
AAAS President’s Address
Willie E. May
AAAS President
Chair of the 2025 AAAS Annual Meeting
A Vision for American Science & Technology
Moderator:
Alison Snyder, Axios
Speakers:
France Córdova, Science Philanthropy Alliance
Kelvin Droegemeier, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Darío Gil, IBM
Marcia McNutt, NASEM
Sudip Parikh, AAAS
Investing to Shape Tomorrow’s Science
Moderator:
Holden Thorp, Science Family of Journals
Speakers:
Monica Bertagnolli, National Institute of Health
Charlotte Deane, UK Research and Innovation
Maria Leptin, European Research Council
Dorothy Ngila, National Research Foundation
The Future of Voting
Juan Gilbert
University of Florida
Psychedelic Science: What Just Happened?
Imran Khan
UC Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics
Seeing the Unknown: Advanced Techniques for Communicating Uncertainty in Data
Lace Padilla
Northeastern University
Accelerating Universe, Astrophysics, Dark Energy
Adam Riess
Nobel Laureate
Johns Hopkins University
SPECIAL LECTURES
Special Lecture: Life at the Interface of Science + Engineering
Phillip A. Sharp
Nobel Laureate
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jones Lecture: Nutritional Inheritance: How Early-Life Nutrient Provisions Shape Development and Disease Risk
Monica Dus
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
