The Sixth Daniel Alpert Lecture in honor of Dan Alpert's continuing interest in promoting communication across disciplinary boundaries and relating the search for new knowledge to the capacity for using knowledge effectively in dealing with human problems.

Cosponsored by: Office of the Chancellor, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate College, College of Commerce and Business Administration, College of Communications, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, School of Social Work, Department of Anthropology, Department of Business Administration, Department of Physics, Department of Political Science, Department of Sociology, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, Campus Honors Program, Institute for Environmental Studies, Institute of Government and Public Affairs, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, Program for the Study of Cultural Values and Ethics, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory, Ameritech Fellowship Program, Army Environmental Policy Institute, Sigma Xi, The Center for Advanced Study, George A. Miller Endowment, George A. Miller Committee