Stem Cells: Saving Lives or Crossing Lines, Part II: Lessons Learned March 6, 2006
The use of embryonic stem cells in research has become a highly complicated and politically charged issue. This conference…
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Baker Institute Student Forum - Intelligent Design and Evolution: To Teach or Not to Teach? March 3, 2006
Baylor College of Medicine Professors Bill Brinkley and Hugo Bellen discuss the teaching of the topic of evolution in school…
Ethics, Politics, and Society Lecture Series - Animal Rights as a Mainstream Phenomenon March 2, 2006
Bernard Rollin, University Distinguished Professor at Colorado State University, is a leading figure in the ethics of…
Darfur and Beyond: The Role of the International Criminal Court February 27, 2006
Wanda Akin, senior trial attorney and former co-counsel at the U.N. Special Court for Sierra Leone and Raymond Brown…
Baker Institute Student Forum - World Trivia Night February 19, 2006
The Baker Institute Student Forum hosts its biannual World Trivia Night for all Rice students.
American Vertigo: Traveling America in the Footsteps of Tocqueville February 13, 2006
Bernard-Henri Levy discusses his new book and his travels in America at the Baker Institute.ￂﾠ Levy is one of France's…
Baker Institute Student Forum - A Discussion with Ambassador Djerejian February 9, 2006
Ambassador Djerejian meets with Rice University students, offering his personal insight into the career of a foreign…
Shell Distinguished Lecture Series -- Former Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres on the Middle East and Israel January 16, 2006
His Excellency Shimon Peres, former Israeli prime minister, discussed conditions in the Middle East and Israel. He stated…
Stalin and Saddam: The Totalitarian Mind: Legitimacy, Conspiracy and Force December 13, 2005
Jonathan Brent is the editorial director of Yale University Press and the author of "Stalin's Last Crime," which was chosen…