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Join us for a special talk featuring Dr. Antonio Gotto, the legendary dean emeritus of the Weill Cornell Medical College, in celebration of the publication of the fourth edition of The Living Heart in the 21st Century. Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in the United States and one of the leading causes of death worldwide. In The Living Heart in the 21st Century Dr. Gotto and his co-author, the late Michael E.

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Imagine beating every strain of flu with a single jab. Wiping out your risk of some lethal cancers, HIV, and malaria during a routine doctor’s visit. That’s the promise of next-generation vaccines, and researchers are closing in on the basic science needed to bring them to reality. Join epidemiologists, virologists, and public-health experts as they share insights on the new wave of vaccine research, and the race to eliminate pandemic threats.

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George F. Kennan was an eminent diplomat whose writings were key to establishing the containment strategy that defined U.S. policy toward the Soviet Union for 40 years.  In a new biography, George F. Kennan: An American Life, historian John Lewis Gaddis draws from exclusive access to Kennan’s archives and extensive interviews with Kennan himself over 30 years. Join us for a special talk with Professor Gaddis on this pivotal Cold War strategist.

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The huge range of print media—newspapers, magazines, short stories, even song lyrics—that flooded the popular market in the early years of the 20th century relied on images to inform, entertain and shape public attitudes. In this program, Virginia Mecklenburg examines illustrations by William Glackens, John Sloan, George Luks and their contemporaries as visual narratives that helped American deal with the fast-changing circumstances of contemporary life.