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EVENTS ON WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2002

TIME: All Day

EVENT: NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES Division on Earth and Life Studies Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology holds a meeting to review of the Army's Technical Guidance Documents on Assessing Toxicological Risks From Exposures to Chemicals.

AGENDA: Highlights:

9 a.m. - Welcome, Introductions, Purpose of Public Session

Richard Bull, Chair

9:10 a.m. - Force Health Protection Needs

9:25 a.m. - Introduction to Deployments? Types and Phases

LTC (P) John Ciesla, U.S. Army Center for Health Promotion

and Preventive Medicine

9:45 a.m. - Background on Army's Efforts to Address Issues Related to

Gulf War Illness and Examples of Initiatives Since the NRC-

IOM Reports on Strategies to Protect the Health of Deployed

U.S. Forces

Dr. Jack Heller, U.S. Army Center for Health Promotion and

Preventive Medicine

10 a.m. - Presentation of Technical Guides 248, 230 and Reference

Document 230

Veronique Hauschild and Charles (Tony) Pitrat, U.S. Army

Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine

DATE: October 2, 2002

LOCATION: 500 5th Street NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-334-2138

WEB ADDRESS:nas.edu

TIME: 9 a.m.

EVENT: FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION Center for Veterinary Medicine holds a public meeting to discuss the "Draft Guidance for Industry: Evaluating the Safety of Antimicrobial New Animal Drugs with Regards to Their Microbiological Effects on Bacteria of Human Health Concern."

DATE: October 2, 2002

LOCATION: Double Tree Hotel, 1750 Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD

CONTACT: Anna Roy, 301-827-2947.

WEB ADDRESS: fda.gov

TIME: 2:30 p.m.

EVENT: LIBRARY OF CONGRESS holds a panel discussion on September 11 comic books and graphic novels.

WHO: The comic book artists and illustrators:

Harry Katz, head curator in the Prints and Photographs Division,

Will Eisner, Paul Levitz, Jeff Mason, Peter Kuper and Trina Robbins.

DATE: October 2, 2002

LOCATION: Mumford Room, 6th Floor, James Madison Building, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-707-7544

WEB ADDRESS:loc.gov

TIME: 4 p.m.

EVENT: U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE, AND SMITHSONIAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN ART together are hosting an in-depth roundtable titled, "Africa: Culture & Development."

WHO: The speakers are:

Dr. Beverlee Bruce, Director, Social Science Research Council Program

Dr. Conrad Kottak, Professor and Chair of Anthropology, University of Michigan

Dr. Christine Mullen Kreamer, Curator, National Museum of African Art

George Dalley, Counsel to Rep. Charles Rangel, U.S. House of Representatives

Ambassador Robert Perry, Deputy Assistant Secretary for African Affairs, Department of State

Ambassador Cheick Oumar Diarrah of Mali

Ambassador Edith Ssempala of Uganda

Sandra Taylor, Vice President and Director of Public Affairs, Eastman Kodak

DATE: October 2, 2002

LOCATION: Smithsonian S. Dillon Ripley Center, 1100 Jefferson Drive, SW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-712-4320

WEB ADDRESS:usaid.gov

TIME: 4:30 p.m.

EVENT: PRESIDENT'S NEW FREEDOM COMMISSION ON MENTAL HEALTH holds fifth meeting. This meeting will focus on the Commission's interim report to the President. The interim report, due at the end of October, will describe the extent of unmet needs and barriers to care within the mental health system. It also will provide examples of community-based, model, mental health programs. In addition, the Commission will hear presentations on the mental health needs and concerns of older adults.

AGENDA: Highlight:

4:30 p.m. - Presentation - "Older Adults and Mental Health"

Dr. Stephen Bartels, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, New Hampshire-Dartmouth Psychiatric Research Center, Dartmouth Medical School

DATE: October 2, 2002

LOCATION: Crystal Gateway Marriott, 1700 Jefferson Davis Highway, Arlington, VA

CONTACT: 703-920-3230.

WEB ADDRESS: mentalhealthcommission.gov

TIME: 6 p.m.

EVENT: SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION Resident Associate Program presents David Hume Kennerly a photographer who has photographed the most gripping events of our times, including Richard Nixon's departure from the White House, Egyptian president Anwar Sadat's historic peace mission to Israel, and Reagan and Gorbachev in Geneva at the dissolution of the Soviet Union -- decided to create a visual diary of the first year of the 21st century. To shoot images for his book, he took one camera, one lens, and one year, crisscrossing America 41 times, crossing the Pacific Ocean 4 times and the Atlantic 2 times, and photographing more than 300 cities, towns, and villages from Beijing to Boston

DATE: October 2, 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 INSTITUTION Resident Associate Program presents Best-selling author Steven Pinker, one of the world's leading experts on language and the mind, offers a new analysis of human nature.

DATE: October 2, 2002

LOCATION: Nat'l Acad. Sciences Auditorium, 2101 Constitution Ave NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-357-3030

WEB ADDRESS: si.edu