We invite you to join the National Association of Scholars for our upcoming events. Join the National Association of Scholars on Tuesday, November 14, at 2 pm ET for "Moore's Law and the Creation of the Transistor." And join us on Thursday, November 16, at 2 pm ET for "Recentering Our Universities," on Friday, November 17, at 1 pm ET for "China’s Kindergarten to High School Influence Strategy," and again on Friday, November 24, at 10 am ET for "Restoring the Sciences: The Greenhouse Narrative."

More on our upcoming webinars and additional events:

Join the National Association of Scholars on Tuesday, November 14, at 2 pm ET for "Moore's Law and the Creation of the Transistor.”

Following the creation of the transistor by William Shockley, he founded a business to bring them to mass market. Shortly after, however, eight Ph.D. graduates left Shockley Semiconductor to found Fairchild Semiconductor, which became an incubator for many of the biggest names in Silicon Valley. From Intel to AMD, numerous companies got their start either directly or indirectly from Fairchild Semiconductor. 

How was the transistor originally developed? Who were some of the key players at Fairchild? How did they develop and improve on the transistor? What is Moore's Law and how did it help to shape the digital age?

This event will feature Ross Bassett, an associate professor of history at NC State University and author of To the Digital Age: Research Labs, Start-up Companies, and the Rise of MOS Technology; and Arnold Thackray, author of Moore's Law: The Life of Gordon Moore, Silicon Valley's Quiet Revolutionary.

To learn more about the event, click here.

Join the National Association of Scholars on Thursday, November 16, at 2 pm ET for "Recentering Our Universities."

In the past 60 years, American universities abandoned traditional general education requirements that gave students shared knowledge of the history, ideals, and institutions of America and Western Civilization, as well as a proper introduction to science, mathematics, and writing composition. Our college graduates all too frequently have learned to hate America from ignorance, but lack the knowledge they need to succeed in their careers or act as informed citizens. The American public rightly has lost its confidence in higher education and its ability to train tomorrow’s teachers, physicians, and leaders.

The General Education Act provides a solution.

The National Association of Scholars (NAS), the James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal, and the Ethics & Public Policy Center (EPPC) have published the new model General Education Act (GEA). The GEA reforms and replaces the failed system of cafeteria-style distribution requirements geared to faculty research specialties, rather than to the true requisites of liberal education. The Act's authors—Stanley Kurtz of EPPC, David Randall of NAS, and Jenna Robinson of the Martin Center—will discuss why the GEA is necessary, what it aims to achieve, and why it is a practical means to achieve its goal.

This event will feature Stanley Kurtz, Senior Fellow at EPPC; David Randall, Director of Research at NAS; Jenna Robinson, President of the James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal; and Shannon Watkins, Research Associate at the James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal.

To learn more about the event, click here.

Join the National Association of Scholars on Friday, November 17, at 1 pm ET for "China’s Kindergarten to High School Influence Strategy."

How does China funnel money into American schools? Is corruption involved? What are the roles of nonprofits in this influence? Is China expanding its influence in K-12 education in other ways (ex: buying private schools, publishers, etc.)?

In this webinar, we will discuss how China is expanding its influence in American K-12 education through various avenues and what this means for the future of academic freedom in our school system.

This event will feature Nicole Neily, president and founder of Parents Defending Education that released the report Little Red Classrooms; and Ian Oxnevad, Senior Fellow for Foreign Affairs and Security Studies at the National Association of Scholars and author of The Company They Keep and co-author of After Confucius Institutes.

To learn more about the event, click here.

Join the National Association of Scholars on Friday, November 24, at 10 am ET for "Restoring the Sciences: The Greenhouse Narrative."

"The science is settled!" "Fossil fuels endanger the planet!" "Why can’t everyone see it?"

But it’s not so obvious. The vast improbabilities inherent in climate are one chink in the greenhouse narrative. There is also the question of whether climate change poses an existential threat? If that narrative was wrong it would be fatal to the vast climate change coalition of government, politically favored industries, and the climate activist mob.

This event will feature Richard Lindzen, a Professor Emeritus at MIT’s Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences program. While at MIT, he was Alfred P Sloan Professor of Meteorology. He has published more than two hundred articles and books on the Earth’s systems of heat transport and distribution, and how these determine climate. He has for many years stood out as a distinguished “climate realist” which has earned him the long-standing epithet of “climate denier.” He is increasingly convinced that the climate narrative is wrong.

This event will be moderated by J. Scott Turner, the Director of the Diversity in the Sciences Project at the National Association of Scholars.

To learn more about the event, click here.

If you can't attend our webinar events live, you can still register to watch the recordings. All registrants will receive a follow-up email with a link to the recording shortly after each event.

If you have missed any of our past events or webinars, you may find all of our recordings here: https://www.youtube.com/@NAScholars/streams.

I look forward to seeing you in the virtual audience!
 

Best,
Chance Layton
Director of Communications
National Association of Scholars