Join Cultural Programs of the NAS on Thursday, December 12 at the Keck Center, 500 Fifth St NW, Room 100, for the DC Art Science Evening Rendezvous, exploring the concept of flourishing with guest host Ryan McGranaghan, a data scientist and research scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Flourishing is an unfolding process of growth and transformation. This salon will examine flourishing at the intersection of art, science, and society, and how we can expand the frontiers of knowledge creation through interdisciplinary collaboration. New approaches are emerging in data science, open science, art, technology, and culture, interacting in ways that could transform our understanding of how we live and thrive together.

The event will feature talks by the following speakers:

Julie Demuth is a research scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in the Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology (MMM) Lab with the Weather Risks and Decisions in Society (WRaDS) research group. For more than 15 years, she has worked on integrating social science research with the meteorological research and practitioner communities. She is also a pioneer of Convergence Science, the approach to scientific discovery for our most pressing challenges that involves deep integration across disciplines.

Daniel Jay is a professor of developmental molecular and chemical biology and an adjunct professor of drawing and painting at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He recently served as the dean of the School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences. Jay is a pioneer at the intersection of science and art. He founded and directs Enfold SciArt, a symposium focused on establishing a Science-Art Institute for Transformative Creativity.

Susan Magsamen is the founder and executive director of the International Arts + Mind Lab (IAM Lab) at the Center for Applied Neuroaesthetics, a groundbreaking initiative at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She also co-directs the NeuroArts Blueprint project in partnership with the Aspen Institute. Additionally, Magsamen is the author of "Impact Thinking," an interdisciplinary translational research model, and co-author of the New York Times Bestseller "Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us." Her work focuses on how arts and aesthetic experiences measurably change the brain, body, and behavior, and how this knowledge can be applied to health, well-being, and learning programs in medicine, public health, and education.

Jennifer J. Wiseman is a director-emeritus (formerly program director) of the AAAS Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion (DoSER) program. She is also an astrophysicist at NASA, where she serves as the Senior Project Scientist for the Hubble Space Telescope. A public speaker, science evangelist, and author, she brilliantly articulates the beauty of science and its impact on society.
The program includes community sharing, short presentations by each panelist, and an audience discussion. This is an in person event with the option to watch the livestream, a recording will be available after the event.