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The Aspen Institute is an international nonprofit organization founded in 1949 as the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies. [2] It is headquartered in Washington, D.C. , but also has a campus in Aspen, Colorado , its original home.
From 1974–1981, Roberts served as Director for the Program of Food, Climate, and the World's Future at the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies. He taught a course in world environmental problems, which was conducted by computer communications, for the Western Behavioral Sciences Institute in La Jolla, California, from 1982–1990.
As a long-time professor at Colorado College, Gray obtained fellowships from the Ford Foundation, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the National Council on the Arts and Humanities. He also was a scholar-in-residence for the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies from 1967 to 1968.
The first Aspen Ideas Festival took place in Aspen, Colorado in 2005. The Aspen Institute, under the leadership of Walter Isaacson and Elliot Gerson, developed the Aspen Ideas Festival to gather individuals from various backgrounds and fields of expertise for discussions about global and social issues and innovative ideas. [9]
Aspen Meadows is a 40-acre conference center and resort located amongst the Rocky Mountains in Aspen, Colorado. It is owned by the Aspen Institute , [ 1 ] and is the venue for some of the institute's events, such as the annual Aspen Ideas Festival [ 2 ] and Socrates Program seminars.
Highlights of Porterfield’s tenure include: the 2024 creation of the Institute’s Center for Rising Generations, which develops the leadership of youth and young adults, powered by a $185.7 million endowment gift from the Bezos Family Foundation; the revitalization of the Institute’s Aspen Meadows campus in Colorado, including a full hotel ...
The stunning wood-frame "Newberry House" -- built in 1895 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987 -- sits on a 12,000-square-foot lot overlooking Hallam Lake in Aspen's West ...
In 1972 and 1976, Aziz was the artist in residence and lecturer at the Aspen Institute Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies in Aspen, Colorado. Aziz painted commissioned portraits of Ontario's Progressive Conservative Premier the Honorable John Robarts , Governor-General Georges Vanier and Mrs. Vanier, noted Canadian photographer Yousuf Karsh ...