The 2008 World Science Festival was a science festival held in New York City. The festival was the brainchild of Columbia University physicist Brian Greene and his wife, Emmy Award-winning television journalist Tracy Day. Although inaugural, no other festival is planned; the festival is the last of its kind in the U.S. and will be followed by a series of international events in 2015 and 2016.
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The 2008 World Science Festival was a science festival held in New York City. The festival was the brainchild of Columbia University physicist Brian Greene and his wife, Emmy Award-winning television journalist Tracy Day. The inaugural festival took place from May 28 to June 1, 2008, at 22 venues. It included 46 events, a street fair and, on its first day, the one-day World Science Summit at Columbia University. The Festival was attended by 120,000 people and included a cultural program focusing on art inspired by science. As part of the summit, the first Kavli Prizes were announced for astrophysics, neuroscience, nanoscience, and cancer research. Although inaugural, no other festival is planned; the festival is the last of its kind in the U.S. and will be followed by a series of international events in 2015 and 2016, with the aim of bringing science to the world in a new and exciting way. The festival is co-hosted by Columbia University, New York University, the City University of New York, Rockefeller University and the Cooper Union, as well as cultural institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Guggenheim Museum, and the Museum of Modern Art.
For more information on the festival, visit the festival’s official website or the Science Festival Foundation’s Facebook page. For more about the festival and its events, visit the festival’s official website or the Festival’s Official Facebook page or the Festival’s official YouTube channel. For more information about the 2008 festival, see the official festival page and the official F festival page on the Festival’s Facebook page. The festival was founded by Brian Greene, a Columbia University physics professor and author of several popular-science books, and Tracy Day, a television journalist and producer. As they envisioned it, such a festival would allow them to combine Greene’s skills as a scientist and science communicator with Day’s as a journalist. The events were meant to be rooted in science, but also to conform to the production standards of professional TV or theater productions.
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