Academic Presentations and Forums

Images depicting educational presentations and discussions in auditoriums, highlighting informative sessions and speaker engagements.

Asian Pacific Heritage Month program, Dean Acheson Auditorium

Program hosted by Bureau of African Affairs in Dean Acheson Auditorium, featuring discussion by documentary filmmaker Randy Bell of projects including multi year exploration of the lives of orphans in Nairobi, Kenya's Mathare slum. On hand were Assistant Secretary for African Affairs, Jendayi Frazer, and other Department officials.

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - SCIENCE DAY 2004

Civil service mid term evaluation session in Loy Henderson Auditorium

Department of the Interior University-sponsored book forum, featuring presentation by Lis Wiehl, lawyer, television commentator, author of Winning Every Time: How to Use the Skills of a Lawyer in the Trials of Your Life

Presentation, in Loy Henderson Auditorium, on Department's Civil Service Mentoring Program

Secretary's Open Forum session in Loy Henderson Auditorium, featuring address on open source intelligence by Robert David Steele, former Central intelligence Agency official and Marine Corps intelligence officer, and Chief Executive Officer of OSS.Net.

Department of the Interior University-sponsored book forum, featuring presentation by Ronald Shapiro, attorney, sports agent, co-author of Bullies, Tyrants, and Impossible People: How to Beat Them Without Joining Them

Department of the Interior University-sponsored book forum, featuring presentation by Lis Wiehl, lawyer, television commentator, author of Winning Every Time: How to Use the Skills of a Lawyer in the Trials of Your Life

Asian Pacific Heritage Month program, Dean Acheson Auditorium

Teach Africa Youth Forum and Exhibition, sponsored by the Africa Society of the National Summit on Africa and the World Affairs Council, in the Dean Acheson Auditorium. Event featured appearances by Department officials including Secretary Colin Powell, Assistant Secretary for Educational and Cultural Affairs Patricia de Stacy Harrison, and Assistant Secretary for African Affairs Constance Berry Newman, and guests including Africa Society founder Leonard Robinson, Jr., former CNN news anchor Bernard Shaw, and local high school contestants and game show host Mac McGarry .

Teach Africa Youth Forum and Exhibition, sponsored by the Africa Society of the National Summit on Africa and the World Affairs Council, in the Dean Acheson Auditorium. Event featured appearances by Department officials including Secretary Colin Powell, Assistant Secretary for Educational and Cultural Affairs Patricia de Stacy Harrison, and Assistant Secretary for African Affairs Constance Berry Newman, and guests including Africa Society founder Leonard Robinson, Jr., former CNN news anchor Bernard Shaw, and local high school contestants and game show host Mac McGarry .

Department Office of Civil Rights officials speaking on Osama video in Dean Acheson Auditorium

Visit of Secretary Dirk Kempthorne to the Ellis Island Immigration Museum, New York City, New York, to participate in a ceremony unveiling plans for a major Museum expansion--known as The Peopling of America Center, funded by the National Park Service along with the Bank of America Charitable Foundation and the Annenberg Foundation--and to observe a naturalization ceremony, for 12 new Americans, under the direction of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service. Among dignitaries joining Secretary Kempthorne at the event for The Peopling of America Center were Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island National Monument Superintendent Cynthia Garrett, Annenberg Foundation Senior Program Officer Gillian Norris-Szanto, Bank of America Charitable Foundation President Andrew Plepler, and Ellis Island Foundation President and Chief Executive Officer Stephen Briganti.

Technology Administration - Commerce Science and Technology (ComSci) Graduation

Teach Africa Youth Forum and Exhibition, sponsored by the Africa Society of the National Summit on Africa and the World Affairs Council, in the Dean Acheson Auditorium. Event featured appearances by Department officials including Secretary Colin Powell, Assistant Secretary for Educational and Cultural Affairs Patricia de Stacy Harrison, and Assistant Secretary for African Affairs Constance Berry Newman, and guests including Africa Society founder Leonard Robinson, Jr., former CNN news anchor Bernard Shaw, and local high school contestants and game show host Mac McGarry .

Matthew Shepard Foundation presentation, in Dean Acheson Auditorium, featuring address by Foundation President Judy Shepard. The Foundation, established in memory of Judy Shepard's slain son, promotes diversity awareness and education, and equality for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender people.

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - NRAP (Rotational Assignment Program) Ceremony

Secretary's Open Forum session in Loy Henderson Auditorium, featuring address on open source intelligence by Robert David Steele, former Central intelligence Agency official and Marine Corps intelligence officer, and Chief Executive Officer of OSS.Net.

Working Capital Fund - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Conference on Ocean Literacy

Edward Harris Jr. Middle School NES Kick-Off Assembly

Department of the Interior University-sponsored presentation by journalist and author Ron Suskind, discussing his book, A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League

Department of the Interior University-sponsored book forum, featuring presentation by Lis Wiehl, lawyer, television commentator, author of Winning Every Time: How to Use the Skills of a Lawyer in the Trials of Your Life

Visit of Secretary Dirk Kempthorne to Ellis Island, New York City, New York, where he addressed newly naturalized U.S. citizens during Citizenship Day ceremonies, met with National Park Service (NPS) and U.S. Park Police personnel, and joined U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Director Emilio Gonzalez for announcement of joint USCIS-NPS program to welcome new citizens at National Park sites

Department of the Interior University-sponsored book forum, featuring presentation by Lis Wiehl, lawyer, television commentator, author of Winning Every Time: How to Use the Skills of a Lawyer in the Trials of Your Life

Department of the Interior University-sponsored book forum, featuring presentation by Ronald Shapiro, attorney, sports agent, co-author of Bullies, Tyrants, and Impossible People: How to Beat Them Without Joining Them

Technology Administration - Commerce Science and Technology (ComSci) Graduation

Department of the Interior University-sponsored presentation by journalist and author Ron Suskind, discussing his book, A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League

Presentation, in Loy Henderson Auditorium, on Department's Civil Service Mentoring Program

National Institute of Standards and Technology - Baldridge Award Ceremony

2023 DEVELOP Day. Trina Dyal, Director of the Science Directorate at NASAs Langley Research Center, delivers closing remarks during the 2023 DEVELOP Day, Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2023, at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters building in Washington. Every summer students and young professionals from NASAs Applied Sciences DEVELOP National Program come to NASA Headquarters to present their research. This year marks the 25th year of DEVELOP, a training and development program where students work on Earth science research projects, mentored by science advisors from NASA and partner agencies, and extend research results to local communities.

Asian Pacific Heritage Month program, Dean Acheson Auditorium

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - CAPITOL HILL OCEANS WEEK

Technology Administration - Commerce Science and Technology (ComSci) Graduation

Department of the Interior University-sponsored book forum, featuring presentation by Ronald Shapiro, attorney, sports agent, co-author of Bullies, Tyrants, and Impossible People: How to Beat Them Without Joining Them

Secretary Gale Norton speaking at National Park System Advisory Board meeting, held in conjunction with Scholars Forum on National Park Service role as civic educator, at Independence National Historical Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Lisa Pratt, NASA's Planetary Protection Officer, answers a question from the audience during a special session titled Planetary Protection for the Future: Science, Exploration, and Commerce” at the 70th International Astronautical Congress, Thursday, Oct. 24, 2019, at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington.

Office of the Administrator (Lisa P. Jackson) - Coretta Scott King Young Women's Leadership Academy, Environmental Awareness Day , Environmental Protection Agency

Secretary Gale Norton speaking at National Park System Advisory Board meeting, held in conjunction with Scholars Forum on National Park Service role as civic educator, at Independence National Historical Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Technology Administration - Commerce Science and Technology (ComSci) Graduation

Department of the Interior University-sponsored book forum, featuring presentation by Ronald Shapiro, attorney, sports agent, co-author of Bullies, Tyrants, and Impossible People: How to Beat Them Without Joining Them

Technology Administration - Commerce Science and Technology (ComSci) Graduation

Glenn Research Center, Black History Month Program for Center Employees

Commemoration, in Loy Henderson Auditorium, of the 25th anniversary of the United Nations Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and of Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief, featuring appearances by Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, Secretary Condoleezza Rice, Under Secretary for Democracy and Global Affairs Paula Dobriansky, U.S. Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom John Hanford III, and United Nations Special Rapporteur Asma Jahangir, among others

Department of the Interior University-sponsored book forum, featuring presentation by Lis Wiehl, lawyer, television commentator, author of Winning Every Time: How to Use the Skills of a Lawyer in the Trials of Your Life

Presentation at Main Interior marking World AIDS Day

Secretary Gale Norton speaking at National Park System Advisory Board meeting, held in conjunction with Scholars Forum on National Park Service role as civic educator, at Independence National Historical Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Technology Administration - COMSCI PROGRAM GRADUATION

Dr. Alexandria Ruble, Spring Hill College European History assistant professor, participates in a panel discussion during a Holocaust Remembrance Days of Remembrance event inside the Bay Breeze Event Center at Keesler Air Force Base, Mississippi, April 20, 2022. The event was held in memory of the six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust. The panel members shared their experiences and educational information.

Inter-American Defense College Leadership Welcomes Brazilian Ministry of Defense Curso de Política, Estratégia e Alta Administração do Exército (CPEAEx) Leadership, Students and Staff to the IADC on Fort Lesley J. McNair, Washington, D.C., Oct. 4, 2022. During the visit, the students were briefed by leadership and received a class by a college faculty, and toured the IADC Campus.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the training auditorium at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Deputy Director Bill Parsons, at the beginning of a space shuttle all hands meeting, speaks to employees about his journey through NASA. He was followed by Space Shuttle Program Manager Wayne Hale discussed the status of the program, successes of the STS-114 mission, effects of Hurricane Katrina on NASA facilities, and the newly released budget.

Technology Administration - Commerce Science and Technology (ComSci) Graduation

Office of the Administrator (Stephen L. Johnson) - Student Environmental Development Program (SEDP) at National Enforcement Training Institute (NETI) , Environmental Protection Agency

Secretary's Open Forum session in Loy Henderson Auditorium, featuring address on open source intelligence by Robert David Steele, former Central intelligence Agency official and Marine Corps intelligence officer, and Chief Executive Officer of OSS.Net.

Teach Africa Youth Forum and Exhibition, sponsored by the Africa Society of the National Summit on Africa and the World Affairs Council, in the Dean Acheson Auditorium. Event featured appearances by Department officials including Secretary Colin Powell, Assistant Secretary for Educational and Cultural Affairs Patricia de Stacy Harrison, and Assistant Secretary for African Affairs Constance Berry Newman, and guests including Africa Society founder Leonard Robinson, Jr., former CNN news anchor Bernard Shaw, and local high school contestants and game show host Mac McGarry .

Visit of figure skating star Michelle Kwan to State, where she joined Secretary Condoleezza Rice and Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs Karen Hughes in the Treaty Room for the announcement of Kwan's appointment as the first American Public Diplomacy Envoy. In the role, Kwan, a five time World Champion and two time Olympic medalist, will reach out to international young people by visiting their schools and clubs to speak about leadership and to engage them in dialogue on social and educational issues.

Maryruth Coleman, Director of the Press Office for the Bureau of Economic, Energy and Business, speaks with high school students interested in what Economic Officers do in the Foreign Service at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., on June 30, 2011.

Secretary Gale Norton speaking at events marking the debut of the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial traveling exhibit, Corps of Discovery II, at Monticello, Virginia

Office of the Secretary - Secretary Elaine Chao with Guest Lecturer Jan Goodwin

U.S. Under Secretary of State William J. Burns delivers remarks at the Maha Chulalongkorn Building of the Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University, in Bangkok, Thailand, on July 16, 2010.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - From the left, Mark Bontrager, vice president of Spaceport Operations at Space Florida, and Tom Engler, NASA's deputy manager of the Kennedy Space Center Planning and Development Office, participate in a panel discussion during an International Space University session in Kennedy's Operations Support Building II on July 3.The International Space University is a nine-week intensive course designed for post-graduate university students and professionals during the summer. The program is hosted by a different country each year, providing a unique educational experience for participants from around the world. NASA Kennedy Space Center and the Florida Institute of Technology are co-hosting this year's event which runs from June 4 to Aug. 3. There are about 125 participants representing 31 countries.

Commemoration, in Loy Henderson Auditorium, of the 25th anniversary of the United Nations Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and of Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief, featuring appearances by Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, Secretary Condoleezza Rice, Under Secretary for Democracy and Global Affairs Paula Dobriansky, U.S. Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom John Hanford III, and United Nations Special Rapporteur Asma Jahangir, among others

Maryland's Sen. Barbara Mikulski greeted employees at NASA's Goddard SpaceFlight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, during a packed town hall meetingJan. 6. She discussed her history with Goddard and appropriations for NASAin 2016.Read more: http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/maryland-sen-barbara-mikulski-visits-nasa-goddard

Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response - School Chemical Cleanup Campaign (SC3) , Environmental Protection Agency

Technology Administration - Commerce Science and Technology (ComSci) Graduation

Secretary's Open Forum session in Loy Henderson Auditorium, featuring Dr. Marina Ottaway, Senior Associate in the Middle East Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Technology Administration - COMSCI PROGRAM GRADUATION

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - At the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida, William Badders, resident-elect of the National Science Teachers Association, addresses students, teachers, parents and VIPs during the 2013 DuPont Challenge Science Essay Competition awards ceremony. The challenge, now in its 27th year, reaches out to students from grades seven through 12 from all 50 states and Canada. More than 200,000 students entered the competition. The DuPont Challenge aims to inspire students to excel and achieve in scientific writing and pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics STEM. The challenge honors space shuttle Challenger's STS-51L crew members who gave their lives while furthering the cause of exploration and discovery.

Presentation at Main Interior marking World AIDS Day

Teach Africa Youth Forum and Exhibition, sponsored by the Africa Society of the National Summit on Africa and the World Affairs Council, in the Dean Acheson Auditorium. Event featured appearances by Department officials including Secretary Colin Powell, Assistant Secretary for Educational and Cultural Affairs Patricia de Stacy Harrison, and Assistant Secretary for African Affairs Constance Berry Newman, and guests including Africa Society founder Leonard Robinson, Jr., former CNN news anchor Bernard Shaw, and local high school contestants and game show host Mac McGarry .

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - Hollings Student Scholarship Presentations_Student Scholarship Presentations

Asian Pacific Heritage Month program, Dean Acheson Auditorium

Department of the Interior University-sponsored presentation by Delorese Ambrose, management educator, author of Leadership: The Journey Inward

2023 DEVELOP Day. NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy delivers closing remarks during the 2023 DEVELOP Day, Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2023, at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters building in Washington. Every summer students and young professionals from NASAs Applied Sciences DEVELOP National Program come to NASA Headquarters to present their research. This year marks the 25th year of DEVELOP, a training and development program where students work on Earth science research projects, mentored by science advisors from NASA and partner agencies, and extend research results to local communities.

Professor Gerald Iguchi, a doctorate holder who serves as a history professor at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, gives his presentation May 19, 2022, at Fort McCoy, Wis. The presentation was in support of Fort McCoy's observance of Asian-American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. The heritage month recognizes the contributions and influence of Asian Americans and Pacific Islander Americans to the history, culture, and achievements of the United States.

National Park Service Director Fran Mainella speaking at National Park System Advisory Board meeting, held in conjunction with Scholars Forum on National Park Service role as civic educator, at Independence National Historical Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Commemoration, in Loy Henderson Auditorium, of the 25th anniversary of the United Nations Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and of Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief, featuring appearances by Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, Secretary Condoleezza Rice, Under Secretary for Democracy and Global Affairs Paula Dobriansky, U.S. Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom John Hanford III, and United Nations Special Rapporteur Asma Jahangir, among others

Working Capital Fund - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Conference on Ocean Literacy

Working Capital Fund - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Conference on Ocean Literacy

Department wide Interfaith Memorial Service in Dean Acheson Auditorium Select Images

Technology Administration - Commerce Science and Technology (ComSci) Graduation

National Park Service Director Fran Mainella at podium, with Secretary Gale Norton to her right, at National Park System Advisory Board meeting, held in conjunction with Scholars Forum on National Park Service role as civic educator, at Independence National Historical Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

National Institute of Standards and Technology - Baldridge Award Ceremony

Mackenzie Eaglen, Resident Fellow at American Enterprise Institute, shares her insights with students and NSS guests to help them think through the cost of credible combat power, June 8.

Office of the Secretary - Secretary Elaine Chao with Guest Lecturer Jan Goodwin

Department of the Interior University-sponsored presentation by Delorese Ambrose, management educator, author of Leadership: The Journey Inward

Department of the Interior University-sponsored presentation by Delorese Ambrose, management educator, author of Leadership: The Journey Inward

Teach Africa Youth Forum and Exhibition, sponsored by the Africa Society of the National Summit on Africa and the World Affairs Council, in the Dean Acheson Auditorium. Event featured appearances by Department officials including Secretary Colin Powell, Assistant Secretary for Educational and Cultural Affairs Patricia de Stacy Harrison, and Assistant Secretary for African Affairs Constance Berry Newman, and guests including Africa Society founder Leonard Robinson, Jr., former CNN news anchor Bernard Shaw, and local high school contestants and game show host Mac McGarry .

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - Hollings Student Scholarship Presentations_Student Scholarship Presentations

Secretary Gale Norton speaking at National Park System Advisory Board meeting, held in conjunction with Scholars Forum on National Park Service role as civic educator, at Independence National Historical Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

National Park Service Director Fran Mainella at podium, with Secretary Gale Norton to her right, at National Park System Advisory Board meeting, held in conjunction with Scholars Forum on National Park Service role as civic educator, at Independence National Historical Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

National Institute of Standards and Technology - Baldridge Award Ceremony

Teach Africa Youth Forum and Exhibition, sponsored by the Africa Society of the National Summit on Africa and the World Affairs Council, in the Dean Acheson Auditorium. Event featured appearances by Department officials including Secretary Colin Powell, Assistant Secretary for Educational and Cultural Affairs Patricia de Stacy Harrison, and Assistant Secretary for African Affairs Constance Berry Newman, and guests including Africa Society founder Leonard Robinson, Jr., former CNN news anchor Bernard Shaw, and local high school contestants and game show host Mac McGarry .

Teach Africa Youth Forum and Exhibition, sponsored by the Africa Society of the National Summit on Africa and the World Affairs Council, in the Dean Acheson Auditorium. Event featured appearances by Department officials including Secretary Colin Powell, Assistant Secretary for Educational and Cultural Affairs Patricia de Stacy Harrison, and Assistant Secretary for African Affairs Constance Berry Newman, and guests including Africa Society founder Leonard Robinson, Jr., former CNN news anchor Bernard Shaw, and local high school contestants and game show host Mac McGarry .

Dedication ceremonies at the newly opened Baca/Dlo'ay azhi Community School in Prewitt, New Mexico, Bureau of Indian Affairs-operated school serving the Prewitt and Thoreau communities on the Navajo Nation Reservation. School design, by architectural firm headed by Navajo member, incorporates Navajo cultural elements

Kevin Braafladt, historian at the U.S. Army Sustainment Command, addresses the audience during a presentation at the Rock Island (Illinois) Public Library on July 13. ASC is based at Rock Island Arsenal and the commands history office is presenting a series of lectures at public libraries in both Rock Island and nearby Davenport, Iowa, as part of the observance of RIAs 160th anniversary. The July 13 lecture was titled A Grand National Arsenal: The Establishment of Rock Island Arsenal and outlined how an island in the Mississippi River between the states of Illinois and Iowa was chosen as the site of an installation designed for the manufacture and storage of military weapons and equipment. (Photo by Paul Levesque, ASC Public Affairs Office)

Bureau of Industry and Security - Bureau of Industry Speaker Series Dr. William Jeffrey, Director, National Institute and Standards and Technology (NIST)

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Dr. Linward Barnes, principal of Oscar Patterson Elementary Magnet School in Panama City, Fla., introduces Center Director Jim Kennedy to the school children. Kennedy is visiting NASA Explorer Schools in Florida and Georgia to share Americas new vision for space exploration with the next generation of explorers. Kennedy is talking with students about our destiny as explorers, NASAs stepping stone approach to exploring Earth, the Moon, Mars and beyond, how space impacts our lives, and how people and machines rely on each other in space.

Dedication ceremonies at the newly opened Baca/Dlo'ay azhi Community School in Prewitt, New Mexico, Bureau of Indian Affairs-operated school serving the Prewitt and Thoreau communities on the Navajo Nation Reservation. School design, by architectural firm headed by Navajo member, incorporates Navajo cultural elements

Cathy Keith, program facilitator of the Leadership Development Program Level II, makes opening comments about the class during a graduation ceremony Sept. 14, 2022, at the district headquarters in Nashville, Tenn. (USACE Photo by Leon Roberts)

University of Denver Chancellor Emeritus Daniel Ritchie, center, at National Park System Advisory Board meeting, held in conjunction with Scholars Forum on the role of the National Park Service as civic educator, at Independence National Historical Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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