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.