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Title: Presentation of Society Awards and Prizes
Identifier(s): video:1450
Description: A presentation of awards and prizes: 1) John Frederick Lewis Award (Pamela Webb);2) Henry Allen Moe Prize (Douglas S. Massey);3) Patrick Suppes Prize (Olaf Sporns)
Subject: APS Archives; Prizes, Societies; Webb, Pamela A.; Massey, Douglas S.; Sporns, Olaf; John Frederick Lewis Award; Henry Allen Moe Prize in the Humanities; Patrick Suppes Prize; APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2017-11-10

Title: New Member Inductions
Identifier(s): video:1460
Description: Dr. Leif Andersson, Dr. Anne Case, Dr. John Clarke, Mr. Roger W. Ferguson, Dr. Edward Mendelson, Dr. Sabine Schmidtke, Chief Justice Margaret H. Marshall, Dr. Stuart H. Orkin, Mr. Mark Thompson, Dr. Kip S. Thorne, Dr. Jan Ziolkowski, Ms. Billie Tsien, Mr. Tod Williams, are admitted to the society and sign the members' book. The new members induction is follwed by a presentation of awards: 1) John Frederick Lewis Award (Pamela Webb);2) Henry Allen Moe Prize (Douglas S. Massey);3) Patrick Suppes Prize (Olaf Sporns). The awards are followed by the third day of member inductions: Dr. Cynthia Dwork, Dr. Claude S. Fischer, Dr. David Hollinger, Mr. Edward A. Montgomery, Professor Louise Richardson, and Dr. Michael S. Turner.
Subject: APS Archives; American Philosophical Society, Members; Prizes, Societies; Andersson, Leif; Case, Anne, 1957-; Clarke, John, 1942-; Ferguson, Roger Walton, 1951-; Mendelson, Edward; Schmidtke, Sabine; Marshall, Margaret H.; Orkin, Stuart H.; Thompson, Mark, 1957-; Thorne, Kip S.; Ziolkowski, Jan M., 1956-; Tsien, Billie; Williams, Tod (Tod; John Frederick Lewis Award; Henry Allen Moe Prize in the Humanities; Patrick Suppes Prize; APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2017-11-09

Title: Presentation of Society Awards and Prizes
Identifier(s): video:1513
Description: A presentation of awards and prizes: 1) Jacques Barzun Prize (Richard E. Payne);2) Karl Spencer Lashley Award (Michael N. Shadlen)
Subject: APS Archives; Prizes, Societies; Payne, Richard E.; Shadlen, Michael; Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History; Karl Spencer Lashley Award; APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2017-04-28

Title: A New Past: Ancient Chinese Manuscripts
Identifier(s): video:1520
Description: Recent discoveries over the past 30 years, which has created a new field "Early China." Martin Kern gives an introduction to this emerging field.
Subject: Ethnography & Linguistics; Material cutlure, China; Manuscripts, China; APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2017-04-29

Title: The Quality of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education: Part One
Identifier(s): video:1463
Description: A panel discussion followed by a question-answer period. Emily Hanford, Pam Grossman, Ed Ayres, Charles Isbell, and Gail Mellow talk about their teaching philosophy.
Subject: Education, Higher; Education, Study and teaching; Teaching; Ayres, Edward L.; Grossman, Pamela L. (Pamela Lynn), 1953-; Isbell, Charles; Mellow, Gail; APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2017-11-10

Title: The Quality of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education: Panel Interview and Discussion (Part Two)
Identifier(s): video:1465
Description: Part two of the panel discussion is the questions-answer portion of the program.
Subject: Education, Higher; Education, Study and teaching; Teaching; Mellow, Gail O., Contributor; Isbell, Charles, Jr., Contributor; Ayers, Edward L., Contributor; Hanford, Emily, Contributor; McPherson, Michael, Contributor; APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2017-11-10

Title: Briefing on the Status of U.S.-North Korea Relations
Identifier(s): video:1453
Description: Nicholas Kristoff talks about the possibility of war between the US and North Korea. Kristoff talks about dealing with the bombastic Trump administration and their blundering foreign policy decisions.
Subject: APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2017-11-11

Title: “Like Opening a Pyramid and Finding an Atomic Bomb”: Derek de Solla Price and the Antikythera Mechanism
Identifier(s): video:1458
Description: Award the Henry Allen Moe Prize in the Humanities in 2019, this lecture focuses on....; Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. Vol. 162, No. 3 (September 2018) pp. 259-294.
Subject: Antikythera Mechanism; Astronomical instruments, History; Price, Derek J. de Solla (Derek John de Solla), 1922-1983; Henry Allen Moe Prize in the Humanities; APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2017-11-09

Title: New Perspectives on Indo-European Phylogeny and Chronology
Identifier(s): video:1516
Description: Andrew Garrett talks about lanugage diversity, specifically in Indo-European languages.; Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. Vol. 161, No. 1 (March 2017) pp. 25-38.
Subject: Ethnography & Linguistics; Language and languages, Classification, Europe; Language and languages, Origin; Comparative linguistics, History; APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2017-04-29

Title: Ancient DNA Suggests Steppe Migrations Spread Indo-European Languages
Identifier(s): video:1519
Description: Professor Reich discusses human migration. By studying the migration patterns through ancient DNA, Reich explains what this can tell us about language migration.; Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. Vol. 162, No. 1 (March 2018) pp. 39-55.
Subject: Ethnography & Linguistics; Biogeography, Europe; Genetic vectors; Human beings, Migrations; Human population genetics, History, Europe; Indo-European languages; APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2017-04-29

Title: The Magic Inside Your Cell Phone and Its Broad Societal Impact
Identifier(s): video:1512
Description: The Herman Heine Goldstine Lecture discusses not only the physical make-up of the cell phone, but how it has changed society.; Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. Vol. 161, No. 2 (June 2017) pp. 138-154.
Subject: History of Science; Cell phones, Social aspects, United States; Technology and civilization, United States; Herman Heine Goldstine Lecture; APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2017-04-28

Title: Symposium: Observed Climate Change. Part 3: Tree Rings Reveal Climate Change Past, Present, and Future
Identifier(s): video:1514
Description: Kevin Anchukaitis talks about his work researching tree rings and how they reveal new observations of climate change.; Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. Vol. 161, No. 3 (September 2017) pp. 244-263.
Subject: History of Science; Climatic changes, History; Paleoclimatology; Tree-rings; APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2017-04-28

Title: Symposium: Observed Climate Change. Introduction
Identifier(s): video:1511
Description: Warren Washington intorduces the symposium on Observed Climate Change.; Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. Vol. 161, No. 3 (September 2017) pp. 202-207.
Subject: History of Science; Climatic changes, Congresses; APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2017-04-28

Title: The Natural History of Edward Lear
Identifier(s): video:1464
Description: Peck gives a lecture based on his work for his most recent book of the same title.; Natura History of Edward Lear. (David R. Godine, Publisher: 2016)
Subject: History of Science; Natural history illustrators, Great Britain, Biography; Natural history illustration; Artists, Great Britain, Biography; Poets, English, 19th century, Biography; APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2017-11-11

Title: The Quality of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education: Panel Interview and Discussion (Part One)
Identifier(s): video:1466
Description: If higher ed is serious about improving teaching, what should be done? Is something already being done? A panel discussion between Pam Grossman, Gail Mellow, Ed Ayers, Charles Isbell, Michael McPherson, and Emily Hanford.
Subject: Education, Higher; Education, Study and teaching; Teaching; Mellow, Gail O., Contributor; Isbell, Charles, Jr., Contributor; Ayers, Edward L., Contributor; Hanford, Emily, Contributor; McPherson, Michael, Contributor; APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2017-11-10

Title: Gravitational Waves, Four New Windows onto the Universe: From Einstein to LIGO and Onward
Identifier(s): video:1467
Description: Kip Thorne gives a short talk on the history of the study of gravitational waves. He starts with Einstein and explains his connection the LIGO observatory. Finally, he gives a few notes on where science might go next.
Subject: History of Science; Gravitational waves; LIGO (Observatory); APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2017-11-10

Title: The Quality of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education: Part Two
Identifier(s): video:1468
Description: Michael McPherson talks about how quality of early education has an effect on higher education.
Subject: Education, Higher; Education, Study and teaching; Teaching; APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2017-11-10

Title: New Discoveries from the Age of Fishes in Pennsylvania: Building on the Paleontological Research of Keith Stewart Thomson
Identifier(s): video:1451
Description: Ted Daeschler gives a glimps into his research on the Devonian era fossils he has collected in Pennsylvania
Subject: History of Science; Geology, Stratigraphic, Devonian; Paleontology, Devonian; Fossils; APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2017-11-11

Title: The Genus Rosa and the Modern Rose
Identifier(s): video:1452
Description: How did we get from the first Rose (Rosa Chinensus) to the most modern (Sweet Mademoiselle)? Steven Hutton talks about the evolution of the rose.
Subject: History of Science; Roses, evolution; Botany; APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2017-11-11

Title: The Starzl Legacy Is Alive and Well Today
Identifier(s): video:1455
Description: James Markmann talks about Thomas Starzl's legacy in organ transplantation, specifically with regards to immunosuppressed patients.; Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. Vol. 162, No. 2 (June 2018)
Subject: History of Science; Patients; Bone marrow; Transplants & implants; Cell adhesion & migration; Liver; Mortality; APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2017-11-09