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In April, 2012, The Exchange celebrated our 450th consult.  Past consults include films such as Apollo 18, The Avengers, Dr. Strange, Green Lantern, Iron Man 2, Thor, and Tron: Legacy, as well as hit television programs like Castle, Covert Affairs, Fringe, The Good Wife, House, and Lost.  Learn More

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The Science & Entertainment Exchange (The Exchange) is grateful to its advisory board members for their commitment to fostering successful collaborations between the science community and the entertainment industry. Special thanks go to Janet and Jerry Zucker, vice-chairs of the advisory board and active partners in the work of The Exchange.

Ralph J. Cicerone, Chair

President, National Academy of Sciences

Janet Zucker, Vice-Chair

Producer

Jerry Zucker, Vice-Chair

Director

Patrick Soon-Shiong, Vice-Chair

Chairman, The Chan Soon-Shiong Family Foundation

Len Amato

President, HBO Films

Paula Apsell

Senior Executive Producer, NOVA; Director, WGBH Science Unit

Dave Bartis

Producer

Gregory Benford

Professor of Physics, University of California-Irvine

May Berenbaum

Professor of Entomology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Adam Bly

Founder and Publisher, SEED

Clark Bunting

President and General Manager, Discovery Channel

Rick Carter

Production Designer

Steve Chu

Secretary of Energy, U.S. Department of Energy; Former Director, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Professor of Physics and Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley; 1997 Nobel Prize winner in Physics

Frank Darabont

Writer / Producer / Director

Keith Devlin

Executive Director, Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford University; Consulting Professor, Mathematics, Stanford University

Jon Farhat

Director, VFX

Anthony Fauci

Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health

Sid Ganis

Producer

Julie Gerberding

President, Merck Vaccines

Neil Gershenfeld

Director, Center for Bits and Atoms, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Sean Gesell

Vice President, Zucker Productions

Ronald Graham

Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, San Diego; Chief Scientist, California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology

Brian Greene

Professor of Mathematics and Physics, Columbia University

Davis Guggenheim

Director / Producer

Robert M. Hazen

Research Scientist, Carnegie Institution for Science’s Geophysical Laboratory; Clarence Robinson Professor of Earth Science at George Mason University

Dudley Herschbach

Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of Science, Harvard University; 1986 Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry

Marshall Herskovitz

Producer / Writer / Director

Dustin Hoffman

Actor / Producer

Marty Kaplan

Norman Lear Chair in Entertainment, Media and Society, University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication; Director, The Norman Lear Center

Lawrence Kasdan

Director / Writer / Producer

Jeffrey Koplan

Vice President for Academic Health Affairs, Woodruff Health Sciences Center, Emory University

Lawrence Krauss

Professor, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University

Sherry Lansing

Founder, Sherry Lansing Foundation

Leon Lederman

Director Emeritus of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory; Pritzker Professor of Science at Illinois Institute of Technology; 1988 Nobel Prize winner in Physics

Doug Liman

Producer / Director

Seth MacFarlane

Writer / Actor / Producer

Michael Mann

Writer / Producer / Director

Alex McDowell

Production Designer

Marvin Minsky

Professor of Computer Science and Media Arts and Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Sidney Perkowitz

Charles Howard Candler Professor of Physics, Emory University

Steven Pinker

Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology, Harvard University

Stanley Prusiner

Professor of Neurology and Director of the Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases, University of California, San Francisco; 1997 Nobel Prize winner in Medicine or Physiology

Rob Reiner

Actor / Producer / Writer / Director

John Rennie

Former Editor-in-Chief, Scientific American; Adjunct Professor, Science, Health and Environmental Reporting, Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, New York University

Jay Roach

Director / Writer / Producer

Bruce Joel Rubin

Writer

Oliver Sacks

Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry, Columbia University Medical Center

Barbara Schaal

Spencer T. Olin Professor of Biology, Washington University; Director of the Schaal Lab, Washington University; Vice President, National Academy of Sciences

Tom Schulman

Writer

Jeffrey Silver

Producer

Anne E. Simon

Professor, Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland at College Park

Alex Singer

Director

Robert Sproull

Vice President and Sun Fellow, Sun Microsystems, Inc.

John Underkoffler

Co-Founder, Oblong Industries

J. Craig Venter

President, J. Craig Venter Institute

Doron Weber

Director for Public Understanding of Science and Technology and the History of Science and Technology,
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

 

 

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