The event was in partnership with La Jolla\u2019s Scripps Research and featured a bevy of local scientists, professors and public figures.<\/p>\n
The first and third days of the meeting, as well as Day 2\u2019s morning session, were held at the Estancia La Jolla Hotel & Spa. The afternoon session on Day 2 was at Scripps Research\u2019s Hazen Auditorium.<\/p>\n
The second day concluded with a concert led by composer Lei Liang, a professor of music at UC San Diego.<\/p>\n
Among the presentations were:<\/p>\n
\u2022 \u201cA Conversation with Irwin Jacobs on Science, Technology and the Future,\u201d hosted by the La Jolla philanthropist and chairman emeritus of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies<\/p>\n
\u2022 \u201cSuper Agers: An Evidence-Based Approach to Longevity,\u201d presented by Dr. Eric Topol, director and founder of the Scripps Research Translational Institute<\/p>\n
\u2022 \u201cWhat Still Needs to be Done to Conquer Cancer,\u201d by Salk Institute professor and cancer biology pioneer Tony Hunter<\/p>\n
\u2022 \u201cInvisible Currents: How Polluted Rivers and Oceans Change our Air Quality,\u201d by Kimberly Prather, an atmospheric chemistry researcher and a professor at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and UC San Diego\u2019s Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry<\/p>\n
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Tony Hunter, who began working at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in 1975, speaks at the American Philosophical Society\u2019s meeting in La Jolla about what can be done to conquer cancer. (J.T. MacMillan)<\/p>\n
The event also shed light on the state of science funding and how leaders can respond to what they described as \u201cnew realities\u201d for universities and science institutions. Several university and college presidents \u2014 Alan Garber of Harvard, Michael Crow of Arizona State and G.\u00a0Gabrielle Starr of Pomona College \u2014 spoke at a panel discussion Nov. 14.<\/p>\n
The American Philosophical Society was formed as a means to disseminate ideas.<\/p>\n
\u201cFranklin\u2019s idea was that at the time, [in] colonial America, there were all these colonies and they needed an institution that would bring the leading minds together to share what they were learning in their home communities with each other, with the idea that if more knowledge was shared, the better humankind would be,\u201d said Chief Executive Patrick Spero.<\/p>\n
Centuries later, APS is still pursuing its mission of \u201cpromoting useful knowledge\u201d by electing scholars, scientists and professionals as members and meeting with them in semiannual gatherings; providing grants, fellowships, lectures, publications and more; and offering a research library of historic manuscripts and collections.<\/p>\n
Choosing La Jolla as the site of November\u2019s member meeting was a product both of connections between APS and Scripps Research and the community\u2019s focus on science, Spero said.<\/p>\n
\u201cCalifornia is the single largest state for our members,\u201d he said. \u201cWe have a little over 100 members here in California. \u2026 La Jolla, being this incredible center for science and innovation, actually [has] a large contingent of members.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe APS is all about research and scholarship,\u201d Spero continued. \u201cWe fund a lot of research. And to be in a place like Scripps really represents who the APS is.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Irwin Jacobs hosts a conversation about science, technology and the future on Day 1 of the American Philosophical Society\u2019s semiannual meeting Nov. 13 in La Jolla. (J.T. MacMillan)<\/p>\n
Spero called the meeting a great success and said it might have opened the door to more events on this side of the country.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was such a good time that the society has made it a priority to have more meetings on the West Coast because of the experience we had in La Jolla,\u201d he said. \u201cWe wanted to do this for a long time. We finally were able to, and now we\u2019re committed to do it more frequently.\u201d \u2666<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A society founded by Benjamin Franklin had met outside its home base in Philadelphia only once since it…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[7,930,5184,6804,6953,74,84,76,75],"class_list":{"0":"post-61042","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-la-jolla","10":"tag-la-jolla-light","11":"tag-la-jolla-light-news","12":"tag-la-jolla-shores","13":"tag-san-diego","14":"tag-san-diego-county","15":"tag-san-diego-headlines","16":"tag-san-diego-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}