Annual Reviews

Dr. Paul Greengard, Professor of Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience at Rockefeller University, talks about his life and career with his former student Dr. Eric Nestler, Professor and Chair of Neuroscience at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Dr. Greengard won the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the signaling pathways in the nervous system. He and his colleagues showed...

Esther Duflo, Annual Review of Economics committee member, talks to journalist Anna Rascouët-Paz about her work in economics, particularly her work at the intersection of economics and social issues. This version of the interview was conducted in French.

Dr. Govindjee, Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Plant Biology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, talks about his life and career with Dr. Donald Ort, Professor of Plant Biology at the same university and Associate Editor of the Annual Review of Plant Biology. Dr. Ort describes Dr. Govindjee as an icon of photosynthesis, and Dr. Govindjee discusses some of his most...

Tanya Chartrand, Roy J. Bostock Marketing Professor and Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University, and Contributor of the 2012 Annual Review of Psychology, talks to Anna Rascouët-Paz about her article The Antecedents and Consequences of Human Behavioral Mimicry. In this conversation, she explains how this unconscious behavior acts as social glue and alters the behavior of those w...

The Annual Review of Physiology presents an interview with Dr. Rita Levi-Montalcini. Dr. Moses Chao interviewed her in September of 2008. Of Dr. Levi-Montalcini, Dr. Chao says: There are very few proven theories that exist in biology. One that has stood the test of time is the neurotrophic theory. It explains why only half of the neurons produced early in development are needed to form a functiona...

Robert A. Dahl, the foremost living theorist of democracy, is the emeritus Sterling Professor of Political Science at Yale University, where he received his Ph. D. in 1940 and where he spent virtually his entire academic career. After five years working for the government—as a management analyst at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, then as an economist in the Office of Price Administration and t...

Philip Benfey, Professor of Biology, Director of the Duke Center for Systems Biology and contributing author of the 2012 Annual Review of Plant Biology, talks about his article Control of Arabidopsis Root Development. In this lecture, he discusses the cellular and genetic mechanisms that underlie root formation in Arabidopsis thaliana, from embryonic roots to lateral roots. He also describes how t...

Margaret Levi, Editor of the Annual Review of Political Science, talks with Elinor Ostrom. In this prefatory interview, Dr. Ostrom talks about her personal journey in academia, not only as a woman, but also as a non-traditional student who worked outside of academia before pursuing graduate work. She discusses her belief in collaboration and multi-disciplinary research, as well as her research in...

Dr. Paul Bloom, Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science at Yale University and contributing author of the 2012 Annual Review of Psychology, talks about his article "Religion, Morality, Evolution." How did religion evolve? What effect does religion have on our moral beliefs and moral actions? These questions are related, as some scholars propose that religion has evolved to enhance altruistic...

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Michael Hout, Natalie Cohen Professor of Sociology and Demography at the University of California, Berkeley, and Contributor of the 2012 Annual Review of Sociology, talks to Anna Rascouët-Paz about his article Social and Economic Returns to College Education in the United States. The research he cites shows that despite all the criticism about its cost and the skills it teaches, higher education s...

Suzanne Fenton, Leader of the Reproductive Endocrinology Group at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and Contributor of the 2012 Annual Review of Pharmacology and Toxicology, talks to Anna Rascouët-Paz about her article Perinatal Environmental Exposures Affect Mammary Development, Function, and Cancer Risk in Adulthood, which she co-wrote with Casey Reed and Retha R. Newbold....

Nevin Young, Professor of Plant Biology and Plant Pathology at the University of Minnesota, St Paul and Author of the 2012 Annual Review of Plant Biology, talks to Anna Rascouët-Paz about his article Genome-Enabled Insights into Legume Biology, which he co-wrote with Arvind Bharti, of the National Center for Genome Resources. He tells us how the Whole Genome Duplication event that occurred 58 mill...

Richard Valelly, Professor of Political Science at Swarthmore College and Author of the 2012 Annual Review of Political Science, talks to Anna Rascouët-Paz about his article LGBT Politics and American Political Development. A week after U.S. President Barack Obama announced his support of same-sex marriage, Professor Valelly discusses the significance of such a move and walks us through the histor...

An Interview with Arnold Harberger by Annual Reviews

The Annual Review of Anthropology presents Irven DeVore, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at Harvard University, in conversation with Peter Ellison, Co-Editor of this journal and Professor of Anthropology and Human Evolutionary Biology, also at Harvard University. Dr. DeVore talks about his life and career, describing how he went from social anthropology to studying and filming baboons and other...

Dr. Gordon C. Rausser, Editor of the Annual Review of Resource Economics, discusses the importance of understanding the political process in ensuring that new research is effectively used to inform public policy. He also talks about the challenges inherent in interdisciplinary research, as well as how his childhood growing up on a dairy farm influenced his choice to study resource economics.

Peter Ellison is a biological anthropologist and co-Editor of the Annual Review of Anthropology. In this interview Dr. Ellison talks about his work in reproductive ecology.

Dr. Susan Gottesman, Editor of the Annual Review of Microbiology, talks with host Mia Lobel about her passion for microbiology, her career path, and what it's like to work at the NIH. She also gives advice for young scientists regarding what it takes to succeed in a career in science. "It's not worth doing unless you really love it . . . but if you love it, it's exciting from beginning to end."

ohn Hagan is a scholar in the area of law and sociology and the founding editor of the Annual Review of Law and Social Science. In this episode Hagan discusses how major events, particularly legal events, can influence the course of a person's life.

Dr. Kenneth J. Arrow and Dr. Timothy Bresnahan, co-Editors of the Annual Review of Economics, discuss economic issues related to healthcare and the environment, as well the bright future of young scholars and important new directions in the field of economics.

Annual Review of Plant Biology author and Harvard Medical School professor Jen Sheen talks about cytokinin signaling networks in this short lecture.

Dr. Susan T. Fiske, Princeton University social psychologist and Editor of the Annual Review of Psychology, talks with Jordana Foster about her recent work in social neuroscience: cognitive stereotypes and gender bias, theory of mind, and the evolution of a successful career in the field of social cognition.

John Prausnitz, Editor of the Annual Review of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, talks to journalist Anna Rascouët-Paz about his career in chemical engineering and biotechnology. He also discusses the importance of interdisciplinary study and looking beyond a single field of study to benefit from the knowledge and viewpoint of others.