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Nicholas B. Dirks, President and Chief Executive Officer of The New York Academy of Sciences
Nicholas B. Dirks is currently President and CEO of the historic New York Academy of Arts and Sciences, founded in 1817. He served as Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley, between 2013 and 2017. Previous positions he has held include Executive VP and Dean of the Faculty Arts and Sciences at Columbia University where he was also the Franz Boas Professor of Anthropology and History. Professor Dirks is the author of Autobiography of an Archive (2015), The Scandal of Empire (2006), Castes of Mind (2001, for which he won the Lionel Trilling Award) and The Hollow Crown (Cambridge University Press, 1987). He is a Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Senior Member of the Council on Foreign Relations. In addition, he has been a MacArthur Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University and has also held a Guggenheim Fellowship.
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The New York Academy of Sciences (https://www.nyas.org/)
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University of California, Berkeley (http://www.berkeley.edu)
Professor of History and Anthropology, previously Chancellor from 2013 - 2017
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Scientific American
The Ethics of Sending Humans to Mars: We need to avoid the mistakes European countries made during the age of colonization
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“I take up my role at the Academy at a critical time in history. We need to do more than study and understand our world. We need to solve big problems. Global warming. Environmental pollution. Famine and Drought. Economic, racial, and social inequality. And, yes, pandemics.”
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"Science owes its greatest achievements not only to its perpetual expansion into new frontiers, but also to it's abiding humility."
—Nicholas B. Dirks