Science Research & Engineering Program Lecture Series presents
Two Lectures on Monday, October 22, 2012
Sharon Hunt, M.D.
Medical Director, Stanford Heart Transplant Program
9:00 - 10:00 a.m., The Ahuja Auditorium
Reception to follow, SREP Center
and
John Billingham, M.A., M.D.
Founder, NASA Ames Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI)
12:20 – 1:30 p.m., Worldwide Communications Center
Light lunch served
Both events are free and open to the HB community and the general public.
R.S.V.P. to phunt@hb.edu
Dr. Hunt is of international renown in her field, Heart Transplant Cardiology. She has been on the Stanford University Heart Transplant Team since the inception of heart transplant cardiology as a medical field. Dr. Hunt was recently the recipient of a the International Heart and Lung Transplant Association Lifetime Achievement Award, which she received in Vienna, Austria earlier this year. She is only the 5th person to receive this Lifetime Achievement Award in the 30-year history of this organization.
Dr. Billingham is an aerospace physician and SETI pioneer who is sometimes called the “Father of SETI, ” for Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. Beginning in the 1960’s, Billingham worked to establish SETI as a legitimate NASA agency, and became the first person in the US to head a government unit specifically concerned with extraterrestrial intelligence. It was at NASA Ames in the mid 1970’s that he became the head of the new NASA Program Office for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. Currently, he chairs the International Academy of Astronautics SETI Committee, and he is Senior Scientist at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California.