[inaudible conversations] every weekend booktv brings you 48 hours of nonfiction authors and books on cspan2. Keep watching for more television for serious readers. Next to mark the papal visit to the United States we bring a program from march on the future of the Catholic Church. Historian gary wills questioned whether pope francis is capable of producing significant change within the Catholic Church. [inaudible conversations] [applause] good evening, everyone. The queue for coming out tonight. What an outstanding crowd. I am not surprised. You tricked a very good event to come to. Diane lissa muscatine, one of the coowners of politics and prose. My staff and co owner and husband bob grant and i welcome you to this event. Most of you know the drill but just in case you are new to our events, gary wills will speak for a bit and is happy to take questions. We have a microphone up here and do we the dyke if you could make it to the mic if you have questions. We videotaped these events a
Hi, everyone. My name is james matheny, the new ceo and president of the Rand Corporation. A nonprofit nonpartisan Research Organization committed to the public good. This is my first public event in my new role and i am grateful that its on biodefense. This is probably the topic i lost the most sleep over the last 20 years. I expect i will be losing more sleep tonight but but i thit will be worth it. The covid 19 pendant has shown a devastating impact can be due to a moderate pandemic, and we can imagine the impact of biological threats that are either here or on the horizon that have more thann a 1 infection the county rate. The biological threats that are enabled by advances and Synthetic Biology make possible to design pathogens that are evenre more severe, that are evn more deadly than what we find in nature. The capabilities are accessible not just to state biological weapons programs that unfortunately persist today but also to individuals. To help us understand the threats we f
PROVO After meeting since last July and following a deluge of thousands of personal and electronic communications with stakeholders, including the university s minority alumni base, the nine-member committee tasked with improving racial equality at Brigham Young University and in the surrounding community has presented its initial findings to President Kevin J. Worthen and school officials.
The report, outlined in a 63-page document available at race.byu.edu, includes 26 recommendations for improving race relations both on and off campus, including the addition and changes to classes based on data received from nearly 20,000 respondents.
The recommendations are categorized under three headings related to improving the experience of Black, Indigenous and People of Color at BYU: institutional and organizational reforms, student belonging and equity, and faculty reforms.