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EVENTS ON TUESDAY, JULY 16, 2002
TIME: All Day
EVENT: NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES Institute of Medicine Institute of Medicine Committee on Large-Scale Science and Cancer Research holds a meeting.
AGENDA: Highlights:
8:45 a.m. - Opening Remarks and Bias and Conflict of Interest Discussion jointly for the National Cancer Policy Board and the Committee on Large-Scale Science and Cancer Research
Joseph Simone, Susanne Stoiber
10 a.m. - Large-scale Science: Personnel/Workforce
Ed Hackett (ASU), Barry Bozeman (GATech), Whitehead post-doc, Wally Shaffer (NIH Fellowships/grants
11:30 a.m. - Large-scale Science: Management
Marvin Cassman (QB3, NIGMS Structural Genomics Initiative), Gerald Rubin (Howard Hughes Medical Institute Janelia Farm), Carol Dahl, Stuart Schreiber (Harvard Institute of Chemistry and Cell Biology)
1:30 p.m. - Large-scale Science: Management
2:15 p.m. - Large-scale Science Discussion: Review of background material and presentations:
Definition of Big Science in Biomedical Research Chapter 2
Dan Kevles, Phil Majerus, Lauren Linton, Tom Smith
Models of Big Science Chapter 3
Jill Bargonetti, Tim Byers, Bruce Stillman, Tim Eberlein, Cecil Pickett
Funding for Big Science Projects Chapter 4
Tom Curran, Diana Pettiti, John Mendelsohn, Bill McGuire, William Kaelin
Intellectual Property Issues subsection of Chapter 5
Karen Hersey, Sue Weiner, Stephen Prescott, Louise Russell
DATE: July 16, 2002
LOCATION: 2100 C Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-334-2138
WEB ADDRESS:nas.edu
TIME: All Day
EVENT: NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES Subcommittee on the Societal Costs of Uninsured Populations holds a meeting.
AGENDA: Highlights:
8:30 a.m. - Opening Remarks, Subcommittee Chair, Jim Mongan
8:45 a.m. - Considerations in Evaluating the Social Costs of Uninsurance
8:45 a.m. - Ellen O'Brien, PhD, Georgetown University, Institute for Health Care Research and Policy, Washington, DC
"Health and the Bottom Line: Do Health and Health Coverage Matter to Employers?"
9:10 a.m. - Elizabeth R. Vigdor, PhD, Duke University, Sanford Institute of Public Policy, Durham, NC
"Valuing Health"
9:35 a.m. - Robert Helms, PhD, Resident Scholar and Director of Health Policy Studies, American Enterprise Institute, Washington, DC
"Policy Considerations in Calculating Costs"
DATE: July 16, 2002
LOCATION: 2100 C Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-334-2138
WEB ADDRESS:nas.edu
TIME: All Day
EVENT: OFFICE OF COMMUNITY ORIENTED POLICING Services holds a conference themed Community Policing Keeps America Safe will provide participants with training and insight on many aspects of community policing. Community policing is police and communities working together to proactively address crime and the causes of crime, and is widely credited with reducing crime rates to record level lows in many regions of the country throughout the 1990's.
DATE: July 16, 2002
LOCATION: JW Marriott, 1331 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-616-1728
WEB ADDRESS: usdoj.gov/cops
TIME: All Day
EVENT: NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH holds State-Of-The-Science conference themed "Symptom Management in Cancer: Pain, Depression and Fatigue."
DATE: July 16, 2002
LOCATION: Natcher Conference Center, Building 45, Bethesda, MD,
CONTACT: 301-592-3320
WEB ADDRESS:nih.gov
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH 2002 SUMMER LECTURE SERIES FOR STUDENTS: RESEARCH AT THE FRONTIER entitled "Bioinformatics and Its Role in Biological Discovery," with Dr. Tyra G. Wolfsberg, Associate Director, Bioinformatics and Scientific Programming Core Genome Technology Branch, NHGRI,
DATE: July 16, 2002
LOCATION: Masur Auditorium, Building 10, Bethesda, MD
CONTACT: 301-496-2427
WEB ADDRESS:nih.gov
TIME: 2 p.m.
EVENT: HELSINKI COMMISSION hearings to examine the state of property restitution for American claimants
WHO: The speakers are:
Randolph Bell, Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues, Department of State
Yehuda Evron, U.S. President, Holocaust Restitution Committee
Olga Jonas, Secretary, Free Czechoslovakia Fund
Mark Meyer, Attorney and Chairman, Romanian-American Chamber of Commerce
Israel Singer, President, Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany and Co-Chairman, World Jewish Restitution Organization
DATE: June 16, 2002
LOCATION: 334 Cannon House Office Building, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-225-1901
WEB ADDRESS:csce.gov
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: SMITHSONIAN Resident Associate Program presents a lecture entitled The Silk Road Ends in Italy Asian Objects in Medieval and Early Renaissance Collections featuring Lauren Arnold who is an independent scholar and research fellow with the Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History at the University of San Francisco. Her book, Princely Gifts and Papal Treasures: The Franciscan Mission to China and Its Influence on the Art of the West, 1250-1350.
DATE: July 16, 2002
LOCATION: Marion & Gustave Ring Auditorium, Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Independence Ave. & 7th Street, SW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-357-3030
WEB ADDRESS: si.edu
TIME: 7 p.m.
EVENT: SMITHSONIAN Friends of the National Zoo Presents Smithsonian Book of Giant Pandas which explores the natural history of giant pandas, as well as the history of the animal's relationship with humans. Despite a limited population size and range, the giant panda has become one of the most popular and well-recognized animals in the world. FONZ Director of Communications Susan Lumpkin and Zoo Senior Curator John Seidensticker will discuss giant pandas.
DATE: July 16, 2002
LOCATION: 3000 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-673-4925
WEB ADDRESS: si.edu
TIME: 8 p.m.
EVENT: US AIR FORCE BAND presents "High Flight."
DATE: July 16, 2002
LOCATION: West Terrace, U.S. Capitol, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-767-4310
WEB ADDRESS:bolling.af.mil/band
