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EVENTS ON THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 2002

TIME: All Day

EVENT: NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL Committee to Review EPA's Research Grants Program

holds a meeting.

AGENDA: Highlights:

10:45 a.m. - Purpose of Public Session and Introduction of Committee Members - R. Loehr, Vice Chair

11 a.m. - ORD research planning process; multi-year planning William Farland

Acting Deputy Assistant Administrator for Science, ORD

11:45 p.m. - Metrics for evaluating research programs Susan Cozzens

Professor and Chair of the School of Public Policy

Georgia Institute of Technology

1:30 p.m. - National Science Foundation research grants program Penny Firth

Senior Visiting Scientist

American Association for the Advancement of Science

2:15 p.m. - DOE Biological and Environmental research grants program -

Jerry Elwood, Director, Environmental Sciences Division, Office of Biological and Environmental Research

3:15 p.m. - USDA, National Research Initiative Peter Johnson

Division Director, Animals; Nutrition, Food Safety, and Health

4 p.m. - NIEHS research grants program Claudia Thompson Scientific Program Administrator

DATE: April 25, 2002

LOCATION: National Academy of Sciences, Green Building, Room 134, 2001 Wisconsin Avenue, NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-334-2138

WEB ADDRESS:nas.edu

TIME: All Day

EVENT: NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH holds its National Five-A-Day Partnership Meeting. The goal of this meeting is to work together to encourage all Americans to eat 5 to 9 servings of fruit and vegetables a day.

GENDA: Highlights:

9:15 p.m. - Keynote Speakers

Tommy G. Thompson, Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services

Ann Veneman, Secretary, Department of Agriculture

DATE: April 25, 2002

LOCATION: Renaissance Hotel, 999 9th Street NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 301-402-0911

WEB ADDRESS:nih.gov

TIME: 12 noon

EVENT: NATIONAL ARCHIVES presents Edgar F. Puryear, Jr., discussing American Generalship: Character Is Everything: The Art of Command. Puryear interviewed more than 100 four-star generals and admirals in his analysis of what is required to excel as a leader in America's armed forces.

DATE: April 25, 2002

LOCATION: National Archives, 700 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC,

CONTACT: 202-501-5000

WEB ADDRESS: nara.gov

TIME: 10 a.m.

EVENT: SMITSONIAN INSTITUTION presents its craft show, the nation's premier juried exhibition and sale of contemporary American crafts, features 120 master artists and emerging talents from across the country--35 of whom are making their first appearance in the show--displaying their latest one-of-a-kind and limited edition pieces in basketry, ceramics, decorative fiber, furniture, glass, jewelry, leather, metal, mixed media, paper, wearable art, and wood.

DATE: April 25, 2002

LOCATION: National Building Museum, 401 F Street, NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-357-3030

WEB ADDRESS: si.edu

TIME: 12 noon

EVENT: SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION National Museum of American History presents Keter Betts, bassist for Ella Fitzgerald for 25 years, leading the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Quartet in this tribute to the jazz legend.

DATE: April 25, 2002

LOCATION: Library of Congress, Jefferson Building, Coolidge Auditorium, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-673-4801

WEB ADDRESS: si.edu

TIME: 7 p.m.

EVENT: NATIONAL ARCHIVES presents author William Gienapp discussing his books about Lincoln. In Abraham Lincoln and Civil War America, he shows how a former backwoodsman and country lawyer rose to become one of our greatest Presidents. In This Fiery Trial: Speeches and Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Gienapp brings together more than 100 pieces by Lincoln

DATE: April 25, 2002

LOCATION: National Archives, 700 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC,

CONTACT: 202-501-5000

WEB ADDRESS: nara.gov

TIME: 7 p.m.

EVENT: LIBRARY OF CONGRESS holds program celebrating National Poetry month with "Poetry for the People" featuring national and local celebrities reading poems from the new anthology, The Hell with Love: Poems to Mend a Broken Heart, edited by Washington writers and teachers Mary Esselman and Elizabeth Velez.

DATE: April 25, 2002

LOCATION: LC, 101 Independence Avenue SE, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-707-5394

WEB ADDRESS:loc.gov