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On September 24, 2012, the Division of Behavioral and Social Science and Education (DBASSE) of the National Research Council will hold a symposium featuring perspectives on the social and behavioral sciences to national security, medicine, and engineering. This inaugural symposium of its new initiative, Social and Behavioral Sciences in Action, will feature commentary by Ralph J. Cicerone, President of the National Academy of Sciences and Chair of the National Research Council, Harvey V. Fineberg, President of the Institute of Medicine, and Charles M. Vest, President of the National Academy of Engineering. Other speakers include:

• Kenneth Prewitt, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
• Rita R. Colwell, President and Chairman, CosmosID, Inc.; Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University; Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of Maryland, College Park
• Mary L. (Missy) Cummings, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Robert A. Fein, The Metis Group, Inc.; Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
• Lucian L. Leape, Department of Health Policy and Management; Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University
• John D. Lee, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison

The symposium is jointly sponsored by DBASSE’s Henry and Bryna David Endowment, SAGE, and CQ Press