Lifeboat Foundation: Safeguarding Humanity

Jul 4 - Maria Malayter joins our Business Board. Maria is Director, Center for Positive Aging, National Louis University; Assistant Professor, Applied Behavioral Sciences, Lisle, Illinois; and author of Boomers: Visions of the New Retirement.

Jul 4 - Cheryl Whitesitt, Executive Director of the Minnesota Future Problem Solving Program (MN FPSP), joins our Futurists Board.

Jul 3 - Ted Kahn, CEO of DesignWorlds for Learning, joins our Education Board. Ted was recognized as the First NMC Fellow in acknowledgement of his lifelong contributions to the use of interactive media and telecommunications technologies for the advancement of teaching, learning, and creative expression.

Jul 3 - Gilly Salmon joins our Education Board. Gilly is the author of the work now considered seminal in the field of teaching online: E-Moderating: The Key to Teaching and Learning Online.

Jul 3 - See 370 books authored by our Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) members!

Jul 2 - The Lifeboat Foundation celebrates the addition of our 1,000th SAB member: A. C. Grayling. Anthony is Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck, University of London and a Supernumerary Fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford.

Anthony uses philosophical logic to counter the arguments of the sceptic, thereby shedding light on the traditional ideas of the realism debate and developing associated views on truth and meaning. He is the author of many books, articles, and papers.

Unlike most organizations, whose advisory boards are too small to do more than provide some advice, our think tank provides action as well as words. Our board members have developed programs, created reports, donated money, fueled our blog, joined our staff, launched numerous forums, organized events, and provided input on a range of issues from web design to grant proposals to ideas for new areas that Lifeboat Foundation should be involved in. We welcome A. C. Grayling to our little think tank!

Jul 2 - Jeffrey Collins, Director, OUSA, International Programs, Oglethorpe University, joins our Futurists Board.

Jul 1 - Read Planetary Messenger by our Jacob D. Haqq-Misra. This novel explores the social, scientific, and spiritual consequences of discovering another planet in the galaxy just like our Earth.

Jul 1 - Karim Medjad joins our Legal Board. Karim is Professor of Law at H.E.C Paris, the most prestigious Business School in France.

Jul 1 - Read issue #83 of Lifeboat News!

Jul 1 - Bud Levin joins our Futurists Board. Bud is Vice Chairman of the FBI/PFI Futures Working Group, Commander of the Waynesboro (VA) Police Department's Policy and Planning Bureau, and Department Head of Psychology, Blue Ridge Community College in Weyers Cave, Virginia.

Jul 1 - Michael Dickey joins our blog team with the post Electron Beam Free Form Fabrication process - progress toward self sustaining structures.

Jun 28 - Bruce Lloyd, Emeritus Professor of Strategic Management, London South Bank University, London, United Kingdom, joins our Business Board.

Jun 27 - Diana Muir joins our Education Board. Diana is the founder of the Hawking Institute and of the Personal Learning Center, International.

Jun 27 - Our WorldFuture 2009 lineup has been improved to include Craig Bettles, Peter Bishop, Arthur L. Caplan, Joseph F. Coates, José Cordeiro, William Crossman, Irene J. Dabrowski, Jay Gary, Jerome C. Glenn, Theodore J. Gordon, Terry Grim, Linda Groff, Arthur Harkins, Don Heathfield, Jay Herson, Thomas J. Lombardo, Gary Marx, Amy Oberg, Ian D. Pearson, Rick Smyre, Stephen F. Steele, Don Tapscott, and Michael G. Zey.

Jun 27 - Arthur Harkins, Associate Professor, Department of Educational Policy and Administration, Adjunct Professor, Department of Sociology, and Faculty Director, Graduate Certificate in Innovation Studies at the University of Minnesota, joins our Education Board.

Jun 25 - Mark Nall, Manager of the NASA Lunar Mapping and Modeling Project at Marshall Space Flight Center, joins our Space Settlement Board.

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