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Tevi Troy, PhD, is a Senior Fellow at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies, a former Deputy Secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services, a Visiting Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute, and a writer and consultant on domestic policy issues. In a new piece for The Washington Post's Outlook section, Dr. Troy takes a look at presidential reading lists. The books a president reads inform his policymaking and worldview, Dr. Troy writes, and they also send a powerful signal to observers about the president's interests and intellect. Click here to read the article in full.
On April 23, the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies will continue to host the Capital Consortium for Neuroscience: Ethical, Legal and Social Issues (CCNELSI) series of lectures with a guest presentation by Daniel Hall-Flavin, MD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Consultant in the Department of Psychiatry and Psychology at the Mayo Clinic. Dr. Hall-Flavin will give a talk entitled "The Cave that DSM Built? What Arrhythmias and the School of Athens May Have to Teach Us about the Future of Psychiatry." The event will be at 4 pm at the Institute in the M-level conference room. Click here for more information.
On May 7, Prof. James Giordano, PhD, Director of the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies' Center for Neurotechnology Studies, will join a distinguished panel at the Domenici Neuroscience Symposium in Washington, DC. The event will be hosted by the Mind Research Network and the theme is "Neuroscience for National Security." Other speakers at the event will include former US Senator Pete Domenici of New Mexico, former Congresswoman Heather Wilson of New Mexico, and prominent experts from organizations including the National Institutes of Health, US Marine Corps, and Sandia National Laboratories. Click here for details and registration information.
Former US arms negotiator and Potomac Institute for Policy Studies Senior Fellow Amb. David Smith is closely following the Obama administration's evolving nuclear weapons policy. On April 8, President Obama and Russian President Dmitri Medvedev met in Prague to sign a new nuclear-arms reduction pact. But many questions remain about the future of nonproliferation efforts. Amb. Smith offered comments to correspondent Sally Kidd of Hearst Television; click here to watch the Hearst stations' story in full.
On Monday April 12, the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies will present a “brown bag” lunchtime lecture hosted by Senior Fellow Al Elkins, entitled “Comprehending Complex Political, Legal and Economic Systems in the 21st Century.” Guest speakers will be Michael Bommarito and Daniel Katz of the University of Michigan, who will explore questions including: How can we measure the relationship between US Treasury securities and US policy on energy and transportation? What do state unemployment rates have to do with the structure of online communication networks among US political dissidents and radical Muslim organizations overseas? How can tools developed to analyze the Enron e-mail data set be used to better understand changes in US federal law over time?
The program will be held at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies from 12-1 pm, and RSVP is requested. Click here for more information and to RSVP for the event.