IMSA Senior Only U.S. Student Delegate to Attend World Conference on Science
For Immediate Release, May 1999
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AURORA -- Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy® (IMSA) senior Keith Winstein is the only student in a group of 11 official United States delegates to attend the World Conference on Science (WCS) in Budapest, Hungary from June 26 to July 1. Other delegates include (see attached list).
Co-sponsored by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), and the non-governmental organization International Council for Scientific Unions (ICSU), the WCS aims to identify the 21st Century issues that science needs to address as well as examine the influence and impact that science has on society.
During the conference, Winstein and the other U.S. delegates will attend three forums with other scientists, political decision-makers and representatives of society at large so that together they can discuss the service science is to provide to society in the future. Forums will focus on topics such as ethical issues and the public understanding of science, the intellectual and institutional challenges that science now faces, opportunities that science offers for short and long-term problem-solving, and the development of a new social contract for science.
The Conference is set to adopt two important documents: a World Declaration on Science and The Use of Scientific Knowledge and the Science Agenda -- Framework for Action. Nobel Laureate in Physics and IMSA Resident Scholar Dr. Leon Lederman was chosen as one of the original 10 U.S. delegates to the conference, and he personally recommended Winstein for participation.
Winstein is the son of Bruce and Joan Winstein of Oak Park. He won third place this year in the nationwide Intel Science Talent Search Competition and is planning on pursuing a career in computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The 11 U.S. delegates to the World Conference on Science include the following:
- Bruce Alberts President of the National Academy of Sciences
- Paul Berg Professor, Stanford University School of Medicine
- M.R.C. Greenwood Chancellor, University of California, Santa Cruz
- Neal Lane President’s Office of Science and Technology Policy
- Leon Lederman Nobel Laureate in Physics and IMSA Resident Scholar
- Jane Lubchenco Professor, Oregon State University
- Shirley Malcom Head, Directorate for Education and Human Resources Programs American Association for the Advancement of Science
- F. Sherwood Rowland Professor, University of California
- Maxine Singer President, Carnegie Institution of Washington
- Michael Southwick Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of International Organization Affairs
- Keith Winstein Student, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy
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