Larry Goldberg Memorial (Open) Award
Inviting submissions for the
Laurence Paul Goldberg
Memorial Award
February 1, 1947 - September 2, 2013
Deadline for papers: June 8
The Larry Goldberg Memorial Award recognizes the best paper addressing East-West scientific integration on global issues. This is an open award to recognize contributions to excellence in integral East-West systems thinking.
This award is open to all papers. Please submit your paper via the http://journals.isss.org site.
The 2016 winner was Thomas S. Leung Wong
Dr. Larry Goldberg was a philosopher of science deeply involved in forging the link between science, consciousness, and spirituality. He promoted interdisciplinary collaborations in scientific research, education, policy analysis, technology, business development and worldview integration. He influenced many in their pursuits of a broader vision of existence and science. He was especially interested in linking far Eastern and Western thought where he believed many answers would be found to mysteries of the quantum world.
The foremost insight guiding Dr. Goldberg’s career was his development of a general interdisciplinary methodology for analyzing, facilitating, and coordinating institutional responses to complexity. He applied his methodology to program development at the University of California, San Diego; Texas A & M University; the National Center for Atmospheric Research; and the Boulder, Colorado Springs, and Health Sciences campuses of the University of Colorado. He designed undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate programs in computational science and engineering, global change, and bioethics; facilitated the development of a citizen's assessment procedure for Denver’s air pollution control options; coordinated a collaborative online educational technology initiative of computer scientists, space scientists, and science and medical educators; and served as program committee chair of annual public conferences on science and spirituality. He held several assistant professorships in the philosophy of science, cognitive science, environmental policy, chemistry and health.
In the business world, he held positions as a communications manager, strategic planning consultant, business analyst, and business system developer. Much of Goldberg’s work related to global change, on both natural science and human/social science levels, where he worked closely with Steven Schneider at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and his mentor in philosophy of Science, Dr. Jim Lodge.
He was especially drawn to ideas facilitating evolutionary global consciousness becoming good friends with Barbara Marx Hubbard and various rishis and consciousness researchers in India. He was especially interested in the cultural evolution of humanity toward sustainable living. Dr. Goldberg passed in 2013 willing portions of his estate to furtherance of his life-long goals.
In recognition of Dr. Goldberg’s commitment to the integration of Eastern and Western scientific traditions, global science, and sustainable social systems, we inaugurate the Goldberg award for the best paper on East-West scientific integration addressing global issues. A donation of $250 from Goldberg’s estate has been made for this award in 2016.
Papers will be judged on:
Scientific merit
Integration of Eastern and Western world views
Social relevance
Focus on global systemic sustainability
PERFECTION by Larry Goldberg
Perfection is not what we are.
It is what we've tasted and know inside.
It is what we long for, live for, die for
See in our friends and share
As best we can
Without denying what we are.
Perfection is a gift
Given and received by fools
Who fear and falter
But never forget
What they once were
What they are sure
To find.
Perfection is the child of hope
The mother of all design.
It lives and breathes in quantum land
In eternities of sand.
Perfection sings when we're in tears
Forgives our growing years
Appears and disappears.It flickers, but all the same
It glows from ear to ear.
Perfection is a better world.
Not perfect, by any means
It is a tangle of evolving things.