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Please note that as of April 6, 2007, new registrations and purchases of additional tickets can only be made on site.

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Deans Institute
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Wednesday, 4/11 (PDF)
Thursday, 4/12 (PDF)
Friday, 4/13 (PDF)
Saturday, 4/14 (PDF)

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WADE DAVIS is an Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society. Named by the Geographic as one of the "Explorers for the Millennium," Davis is an anthropologist nd plant explorer who received his Ph.D. in ethnobotany from Harvard University. Davis spent three years in the Amazon and Andes searching for new medicinal drugs, before heading to Haiti to investigate folk poisons used to create zombies. This investigation is chronicled in his book The Serpent and the Rainbow, an international bestseller.

From Haiti, Davis moved to Borneo, where he lived among the Penan, the last nomads of Southeast Asia. His recent travels have taken him to East Africa, the high Arctic, Tibet, the Orinoco of Venezuela, and the deserts of Mali and Burkina Faso. Just as there is a biological web of life, there is also a cultural and spiritual web of life—what Davis and National Geographic have taken to calling the "ethnosphere"—the sum total of all the thoughts, beliefs, myths, and institutions brought into being by the human imagination. A powerful storyteller, Davis will take you on a visual journey that you will never forget.

JUAN ENRIQUEZ, bestselling author, businessman, and academic, is currently Chairman and CEO of Biotechonomy LLC, a life sciences research and investment firm. He was the Founding Director of the Harvard Business School Life Sciences Project, and author of the global bestseller As the Future Catches You: How Genomics & Other Forces are Changing Your Life, Work, Health & Wealth (selected by Amazon’s editors as one of the best business books of the year) and, The Untied States of America: Polarization, Fracturing, and Our Future, which explores why some countries are successful while others fall apart.

Over the past several years, he has published several key articles including, "Transforming Life, Transforming Business: the Life Science Revolution," co-authored with Ray Goldberg, which received a McKinsey Prize (2nd place) in 2000. He recently co-authored the first map of global nucleotide data flow, as well as HBS working papers on "Life Sciences in Arabic Speaking Countries", "Global Life Science Data Flows and the IT industry", "SARS, Smallpox, and Business Unusual," and "Technology, Gene Research and National Competitiveness."

Harvard Business School Interactive picked Enriquez as one of the best and most charismatic teachers at HBS and showcased his work in its first set of faculty products. He is recognized as one of the world’s leading authorities on the economic and political impacts of life sciences. The Harvard Business Review showcased his ideas as one of the breakthrough concepts in its first HBR List. Fortune profiled him as "Mr. Gene". Time asked him to co-organize the life sciences summit commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the discovery of DNA. Seed picked his ideas as one of 50 that "shaped our identity, our culture, and the world as we know it."

SHARON DALOZ PARKS is a nationally known author and orator on issues of ethics, faith, and leadership. Parks, Associate Director and faculty member of the Whidbey Institute in Clinton, Washington, also serves on the faculty of the Executive Leadership Program at Seattle University. Before joining the Whidbey Institute, she held faculty and research positions for more than 16 years in leadership and ethics at Harvard University’s schools of divinity and business, at the Kennedy School of Government, and at the Weston Jesuit School of Theology.

She is the author of Big Questions, Worthy Dreams: Mentoring Young Adults in Their Search for Meaning, Purpose and Faith, and Can Leadership Be Taught? Parks co-authored Can Ethics Be Taught?, Perspectives, Approaches, and Challenges at Harvard Business School, and Common Fire: Leading Lives of Commitment in a Complex World. In addition, she is a contributing writer to the ecumenical Valparaiso Project on the Education and Formation of People in Faith.

For more information, contact: Liz Lear, UCEA Conference Director, at llear@ucea.edu, or phone 202.659.3130.