We now have an official announcement of the event that will welcome NASA astrophysicist Jennifer Wiseman as the new director of the AAAS Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion. As Wiseman told us earlier this month, the panel discussion on “Re-Envisioning the Science and Religion Dialogue” will feature William Phillips, a Nobel laureate and professor of physics at the University of Maryland; Howard Smith, an astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics; David Anderson, the founder and lead pastor at the Bridgeway Community Church in Maryland; and Rick Potts, director of the Human Origins Program at the Smithsonian Institution.
The discussion will take place on June 16 at the AAAS headquarters in Washington, D.C., and registration is open.

The Kavli Prize announcements will be broadcast live tomorrow from Oslo, Norway, beginning at 8:50 a.m. EST. The prizes recognize outstanding research in astrophysics, nanoscience, and neuroscience with a cash award of 1 million dollars in each field.
You can also watch the live stream from the World Science Festival, which features opening remarks by Harold Varmus, co-chair of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, and commentary from neuroscientist Antonio Damasio, nanoscientist Mostafa El-Sayed, and theoretical physicist Kip Thorne, moderated by ABC news anchor Elizabeth Vargas. The webcast starts at 8 a.m. EST.

The World Science Festival posted this twitpic of the life-sized model of the Webb Telescope now on display in New York City’s Battery Park.

A full-scale model of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope will be unveiled in New York City’s Battery Park this morning to kick off the World Science Festival.
The telescope, scheduled to be launched in 2014, will look further back in time than any telescope before, allowing us to observe the first galaxies formed in the universe and the planets around distant stars. The model—80 feet long and 37 feet wide (as big as a tennis court)—will be on view in the park for the next six days.