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EVENTS ON THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 2002
TIME: All Day
EVENT: NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES Institute of Medicine holds a meeting to discuss Evaluation of the Addition of Ingredients New to Infant Formula.
AGENDA: Highlights:
1 p.m. - Welcome, Opening Remarks, Richard Deckelbaum, Chair
1:10 p.m. - FDA's Charge to the Committee
Alan Rulis, Director, Office of Premarket Approval
Christine Taylor, Director, Office of Nutrition
2:15 p.m. -- health Canada's Charge to the Committee
Elizabeth Vavasour, Senior Toxicologist
DATE: March 7, 2002
LOCATION: Cecil and Ida Green Building, 2001 Wisconsin Ave. NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-334-2138
WEB ADDRESS:nas.edu
TIME: 8:30 a.m.
EVENT: RADIO FREE EUROPE/RADIO LIBERTY holds a program with Lawrence Uzzell, Director, Keston Institute Caesar Above God: Established Religion in Post-Soviet Countries?
DATE: March 7, 2002
LOCATION: 1201 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-457-6949
WEB ADDRESS:rferl.org
TIME: 10:30 p.m.
EVENT: FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION MICROBIOLOGY DEVICES PANEL holds a meeting to discuss the classification of preamendments in vitro diagnostic products to identify Bacillus anthracis and yersinia pestis. No applications will be reviewed at this meeting.
DATE: March 7, 2002
LOCATION: Gaithersburg Holiday Inn, Walker Two Montgomery Village Ave., Gaithersburg, MD
CONTACT: Freddie M. Poole, 301-594-2096
WEB ADDRESS: fda.gov
TIME: 11 a.m.
EVENT: CENTER ON BUDGET AND POLICY PRIORITIES holds a conference call briefing to highlight key issues related to food stamps in the House/Senate conference on the Farm Bill. The conferees have expressed their intention to report out and pass a conference measure before Congress recesses for the Easter break starting March 22, despite major differences between the House- and Senate-passed versions of the bill.
WHO: The speakers are:
Robert Greenstein, Executive Director, CBPP (moderator)
James D. Weill, President, Food Resource and Action Center
Stacy Dean, Director for Food Stamp and Immigrant Policy, CBPP
DATE: March 7, 2002
CONTACT: Michelle Bazie, 202-408-1080.
WEB ADDRESS: cbpp.org
TIME: 1:30 p.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH DIVISION OF NUTRITION RESEARCH COORDINATION PRESENTATION on "The DASH Studies: Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension," with Dr. Frank M. Sacks, Professor of Cardiovascular Disease Prevention, Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health
DATE: March 7, 2002
LOCATION: Room 9112, Rockledge II, 6701 Rockledge Dr., Bethesda, MD
CONTACT: 301-594-5595
WEB ADDRESS:nih.gov
TIME: 2 p.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL AERONAUTIC SPACE ADMINISTRATION holds its science briefing in preparation for the launch of the Gravity Recovery And Climate Experiment mission.
AGENDA: The program will be broadcast live on NASA Television, with two-way question-and-answer capability for reporters covering the event from participating NASA centers.
WHO: The speakers are:
Dr. Ghassem R. Asrar, Associate Administrator for Earth Science, NASA Headquarters
Dr. John L. LaBrecque, manager, Solid Earth and Natural Hazards Program, NASA Headquarters
Dr. Byron Tapley, GRACE principal investigator, Center for Space Research, University of Texas
Dr. Michael Watkins, GRACE project scientist, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena, Calif.
Ralf Huber, head, Washington Office, Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft und Rumfahrt (DLR) -- German Aerospace Center
Dr. Christoph Reigber, GRACE co-principal investigator, DLR-Geo ForschungsZentrum (GFZ)
DATE: March 7, 2002
LOCATION: NASA Headquarters, 300 E St. SW, Washington, DC,
CONTACT: 202-358-1547
WEB ADDRESS:nasa.gov
TIME: 2 p.m.
EVENT: HELSINKI COMMISSION holds a hearing on Central Asia and U.S. policy.
WHO: The speakers are:
Lawrence Uzzell, Director of the Oxford-based Keston Institute, former Washington correspondent for Scripps Howard newspapers
Wayne Merry, Senior Associate at the American Foreign Policy Council in Washington and Senior Fellow of the Pearson Peacekeeping Center in Nova Scotia, former State Department and Pentagon official
Nina Shea, Commissioner, United States Commission on International Religious Freedom
DATE: March 7, 2002
LOCATION: SC-6, U.S. Capitol, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-225-1901
WEB ADDRESS: csce.gov
TIME: 4 p.m.
EVENT: US AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT holds an opening for a photo exhibit, "Rebuilding Lives: Reconstructing the Dominican Republic after Hurricane Georges"
WHO: The speakers are:
The Ambassador of the Dominican Republic
Select Members of Congress
Assistant Administrator Adolfo Franco
DATE: March 7, 2002
LOCATION: USAID, Information Center, Ronald Reagan Building (Mezzanine Level),1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-712-4320
WEB ADDRESS: usaid.gov
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: SECRETARY OF STATE COLIN L. POWELL hosts a reception marking International Women's Day.
DATE: March 7, 2002
LOCATION: Department of State, 2201 C Street, NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-312--9664
WEB ADDRESS: state.gov
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION Resident Associate Program presents Daniel Mark Epstein offering new insight into the life and work of poet Edna St. Vincent Millay and reads some of her and his own poetry.
DATE: March 7, 2002
LOCATION: S. Dillon Ripley Center, Rm. 3037, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-357-3030
WEB ADDRESS: si.edu
