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Speakers include Elena Kagan, Stephen Breyer, Yo-Yo Ma, Susan Rice, Annie Lennox, and Tom Friedman WASHINGTON, May 21, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Aspen Institute and The Atlantic are pleased to announce the ninth annual Aspen Ideas Festival. From June 26 through July 2, 2013, more than 300 insightful thinkers and leaders from around the country and beyond will gather in Aspen, CO to discuss their work, the issues that inspire them, and their ideas. The week's programming...

Portraits of Hope visits Braille Institute in Los Angeles to involve children who are visually impaired in another major civic initiative. Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) May 03, 2013 Portraits of Hope http://www.portraitsofhope.org/ is conducting a session today for children from the Braille Institute in the program’s next big motivational art and civic initiative that will culminate with the vibrant visual makeovers of the fire, rescue, and emergency vehicles in world-renowned Aspen and...

WASHINGTON, April 15, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Aspen Institute announced today that Julius Genachowski, Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, will become senior fellow at the Aspen Institute Communications and Society Program upon his resignation from the Commission in the coming weeks. At the Institute, a non-partisan venue for values-based leadership, Genachowski will advise on the Institute's communications policy programs. As Chairman of the FCC since 2009,...

CHICAGO, March 26, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Colorado Mountain Express, Vail Resorts' ground transportation company, is the GO Group's newest affiliate. The GO Group is a network of ground transportation companies that provides shuttles to and from more than 52 airports around the world. As GO's newest affiliate member, Colorado Mountain Express (CME) will broaden GO's reach further into the Rocky Mountains. CME provides transportation from Denver International Airport (DEN), Eagle County...

The Aspen Institute and Bezos Family Foundation with Los Angeles Unified School District launch February 22-23 forum featuring renowned leaders LOS ANGELES, Feb. 22, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The inaugural Aspen Challenge--a project of the Aspen Institute, in partnership with the Bezos Family Foundation--launches today with the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD). Two hundred students, teachers and principals from 20 high schools across the city will develop...

'Power-Curve Society' examines rising economic inequality, challenges to existing institutions and conceptions of value, and an imminent "personal data revolution" WASHINGTON, Feb. 11, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Aspen Institute Communications and Society Program today released a report that offers a sweeping look at how technological innovation is restructuring productivity and lays out the social and economic impact resulting from these changes. "Power-Curve Society: The...

ASPEN, Colo., Jan. 28, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The ski resort in Aspen, Colorado is the most expensive in the United States. That's according to the latest survey from Cheaphotels.org, which compared 20 ski resorts in the USA based on the cost of their lodging. The survey specifically analyzed what travelers would currently have to spend for a hotel room (minimum: 3-star hotel) that is located inside or within close proximity to the respective resorts. In Aspen, travelers will have to...

The Positive -- and Negative Impact of Sports Today November 20, on Public TV's WORLD Channel WASHINGTON, Nov. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Sports is no longer on the periphery of our society as a mere diversion, but an institution that both reflects and shapes our culture. On November 20, at 8:00 p.m. ET, The Aspen Institute Presents -- Sports and Society: More than a Game, dives deep into some of today's most compelling sports-related topics: A discussion on the cluster...

Public Library of Science Over 60 percent of aspen in parts of Utah, Colorado are triploid, new study shows A large proportion of aspen in the western U.S. sport an extra set of chromosomes in their cells, a phenomenon termed triploidy, according to new research published Oct. 31 in the open access journal PLoS ONE by Karen Mock from Utah State University and colleagues at several other institutions. In some areas of southern Utah and Colorado, over 60% of aspen trees are triploid....

WASHINGTON, Oct. 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Today the Aspen Institute Communications and Society Program, in association with Grupo Salinas and Caminos de la Libertad, released a new report detailing steps that nations can take to address critical deficits in connectivity and the freedom to communicate across the Western Hemisphere. Freedom and Connectivity: Advancing the Freedom to Communicate in the Americas calls on government leaders to move communications issues to the top of...