SORRY -- WE CANNOT ACCEPT ANY MORE RESERVATIONS FOR THE 2010 BANQUET

The Academy's Annual Meeting and Awards Banquet is one of the premier events of the year, featuring:

• A program that typically includes a world class speaker. This year we have David Teie, cellist with the National Symphony Orchestra and only provider of species-specific music to institutions, including authentic cat music based on feline communication and hearing. Dave worked with scientists at the University of Wisconsin on cotton-topped tamarin monkeys and is involved with the species-specific music project at the National Zoo.
  
• An awards ceremony that on more than one occasion has anticipated a later Nobel prize.
  
• A venue (Meadowlark Botanical Gardens) that has been voted among the top three event locations in suburban Washington DC, by the Washingtonian magazine. The building features a two-thousand square foot skylight, an indoor stream and fountain. Glass walls look out on The Atrium's outside gardens which showcase some of the best ornamental collections at Meadowlark.