Planned Events

“Future of Planet Earth” FFF/UNESCO Joint Sponsored Seminar

June 3–5, 2008

9th Annual Kistler Prize

September 11, 2008

“Anthropogenic Climate Destabilization: A Worst-case Scenario” Humanity 3000 Workshop

September 12–14, 2008

 

RECENT Events

“Think Globally, Act Locally” Humanity 3000 Seminar

April 2008

Awarding of the Walter P. Kistler Book Award

March 2008

Walter P. Kistler Science Teacher of the Year Award

November 2007

Awarding of Eighth Annual Kistler Prize

September 2007

Walter P. Kistler Science Documentary Film Award

June 2007

 

Announcements

2009 Kistler Prize
Call for Nominations

Deadline: Sept. 30, 2008

 

Streaming Video

Foundation For the Future 10th Anniversary

Where Does Humanity Go from Here?

Cosmic Origins: From Big Bang to Humankind

 

Recent Publications

Foundation Newsletter

Winter 2007/2008
[1.6 MB PDF]

“Energy Challenges” Executive Summary

“Energy Challenges” Workshop Proceedings

[34.9 MB PDF]

“Humanity and the Biosphere” Seminar Proceedings

[8.7 MB PDF]

“Crossroads for Planet Earth” Seminar Proceedings

[16 MB PDF]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Awards

Kistler Prize

 

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Recipients

2008  Dr. Craig Venter
Genome Research Pioneer

For a body of pioneering work in genome science.
 

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2007  Dr. Spencer Wells
Genographic Project

For a body of work in the science of population genetics, culminating in the design and implementation of National Geographic and IBM’s Genographic Project.

Profile

Doreen Kimura2006  Dr. Doreen Kimura
Simon Fraser University

For scientific research on biological influences on human cognitive and motor skills,

most notably the relationship between sex and cognition.

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2005  Dr. Thomas J. Bouchard Jr.
University of Minnesota

For scientific research on human individual differences caused by genetic and environmental influences, through the study of human monozygotic and dizygotic twins.

Profile

2004  Dr. Vincent M. Sarich
University of California, Berkeley

For discoveries in molecular dating, determining that humans and the great apes diverged much more recently than previously believed.

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2003  Dr. Arthur R. Jensen
University of California, Berkeley

For scientific research on human intelligence, establishing the genetic basis for individual differences in intelligence.

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2002  Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, M.D.
Stanford University

For his work tracing historical migrations by analyzing the genetic differences between humans living today.

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2001  Dr. Richard Dawkins, FRS
Oxford University

For his work in the ethology of the gene, redirecting the focus of the “levels of selection” debate from the individual animal as the unit of evolution to the genes.

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2000  Dr. Edward O. Wilson
Harvard University

For the introduction of biological thought into the social sciences to create the field of sociobiology.

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