Science & Entertainment Exchange
The Science & Entertainment Exchange is an American propaganda program of the National Academy of Sciences which uses "the vehicle of popular entertainment media to deliver sometimes subtle, but nevertheless powerful, messages about science."[1]
It has been endorsed by the Directors Guild of America (DGA), Producers Guild of America (PGA), Women in Film Los Angeles (WIF), Writers Guild of America, West (WGAW), and the Entertainment Industry Foundation (EIF).[2]
Activities
Movies and TV shows that the Science & Entertainment Exchange has worked on include:[3]
- Big Bang Theory
- Contagion
Production companies
The Science & Entertainment Exchange works with the following production companies:[3:1]
- Bekhambetov Projects
- Blind Wink Productions
- Blue Sky Studios
- Captivate Entertainment
- Chris Morgan Productions
- Collider Entertainment
- Dare to Pass
- Darkhorse Productions
- Film 44
- Flashpoint Entertainment
- Gail Katz Productions
- GK Films
- Inferno Entertainment
- Junction Entertainment
- Kurtzman Orci Paper Products
- Marvel Studios
- Misher Films
- Scott Free Productions
- Strike Entertainment
- Top Cow Productions
- Zucker Productions
Personnel
| Name | Position | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Ralph Cicerone | Chair[4] | National Academy of Sciences |
| Janet Zucker | Vice-chair | - |
| Jerry Zucker | Vice-chair | - |
| Patrick Soon-Shiong | Vice-chair | Chan Soon-Shiong Family Foundation |
| Michael Ireland | Board member[5] | Colossal Biosciences, MTV, Appian Way Productions, 20th Century Fox, Walt Disney Company, Paramount Pictures, National Academy of Sciences |
| Len Amato | Advisor | HBO Films |
| Paula Apsell | Advisor | WGBH |
| Dave Bartis | Advisor | - |
| Gregory Benford | Advisor | University of California, Irvine |
| May Berenbaum | Advisor | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| Adam Bly | Advisor | Seed |
| Clark Bunting | Advisor | Discovery Channel |
| Rick Carter | Advisor | - |
| Steve Chu | Advisor | United States Department of Energy, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley |
| Frank Darabont | Advisor | - |
| Keith Devlin | Advisor | Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI) |
| Jon Farhat | Advisor | - |
| Anthony Fauci | Advisor | National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) |
| Sid Ganis | Advisor | - |
| Julie Gerberding | Advisor | Merck |
| Neil Gershenfeld | Advisor | Center for Bits and Atoms |
| Sean Gesell | Advisor | Zucker Productions |
| Ronald Graham | Advisor | University of California, San Diego, California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) |
| Brian Greene | Advisor | Columbia University |
| Davis Guggenheim | Advisor | - |
| Robert Hazen | Advisor | Carnegie Institution for Science, George Mason University |
| Dudley Herschbach | Advisor | Harvard University |
| Marshall Herskovitz | Advisor | - |
| Dustin Hoffman | Advisor | - |
| Marty Kaplan | Advisor | USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, Norman Lear Center |
| Lawrence Kasdan | Advisor | - |
| Jeffrey Koplan | Advisor | Woodruff Health Sciences Center |
| Lawrence Krauss | Advisor | School of Earth and Space Exploration |
| Sherry Lansing | Advisor | Sherry Lansing Foundation |
| Leon Lederman | Advisor | Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), Illinois Institute of Technology |
| Doug Liman | Advisor | - |
| Seth MacFarlene | Advisor | - |
| Michael Mann | Advisor | - |
| Alex McDowell | Advisor | - |
| Marvin Minsky | Advisor | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) |
| Sidney Perkowitz | Advisor | Emory University |
| Steven Pinker | Advisor | Harvard University |
| Stanley Prusiner | Advisor | Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases (IND) |
| Rob Reiner | Advisor | - |
| John Rennie | Advisor | McGraw Hill, Scientific American |
| Jay Roach | Advisor | - |
| Bruce Joel Rubin | Advisor | - |
| Barbara Schaal | Advisor | Washington University in St. Louis, National Academy of Sciences |
| Tom Schulman | Advisor | - |
| Jeffrey Silver | Advisor | - |
| Anne Simon | Advisor | Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics |
| Alex Singer | Advisor | - |
| Robert Sproull | Advisor | Sun Microsystems |
| John Underkoffler | Advisor | Oblong Industries |
| Craig Venter | Advisor | J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) |
| Doron Weber | Advisor | Alfred P. Sloan Foundation |
| Mark Drapeau | Consultant[6] | Strategic Social |
Funding
Funding for the Science & Entertainment Exchange has come from:[7]
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
- California Endowment
- Christopher Ireland
- Cures Now
- Davis Masten
- Esri
- Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers – USA (IEEE-USA)
- Jill Kramer
- National Academy of Sciences
- Ralph J. and Carol M. Cicerone Endowment for NAS Missions
- Research Corporation for Scientific Advancement (RCSA)
External links
- About. Science & Entertainment Exchange. Retrieved February 17, 2017, from https://web.archive.org/web/20170217230322/http://www.scienceandentertainmentexchange.org/about ↩︎
- Endorsements. Science & Entertainment Exchange. Retrieved October 10, 2016, from http://archive.today/2016.10.10-122407/http://www.scienceandentertainmentexchange.org/endorsements ↩︎
- Recent projects. Science & Entertainment Exchange. Retrieved February 27, 2017, from http://archive.today/2017.02.27-134718/http://www.scienceandentertainmentexchange.org/projects ↩︎ ↩︎
- Advisory Board. Science & Entertainment Exchange. Retrieved March 4, 2017, from https://web.archive.org/web/20170304031214/http://www.scienceandentertainmentexchange.org/advisory-board ↩︎
- The Science of Genetics. The Business of Discovery. Colossal Biosciences. Retrieved November 17, 2023, from https://web.archive.org/web/20231117040628/https://colossal.com/company/ ↩︎
- Biography. Mark Drapeau. Retrieved May 20, 2018, from http://archive.today/2018.05.20-182223/http://www.markdrapeau.com/biography/ ↩︎
- Our Sponsors. Science & Entertainment Exchange. Retrieved July 14, 2023, from https://web.archive.org/web/20230714064232/http://scienceandentertainmentexchange.org/about/our-sponsors/ ↩︎