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EVENTS ON TUESDAY, JUNE 25, 2002
TIME: All Day
EVENT: NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences holds the 128th Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board Meeting
AGENDA: Highlights:
10 a.m. - Code R Overview Jerry Creedon
Associate Administrator
Office of Aerospace Technology
11 a.m. - NASA Space Launch Initiative Dan Coughlin
NASA Headquarters
1 p.m. - Panel Discussion: Security of the Air Transportation System
Stephen McHale, Deputy Under Secretary -Transportation Security Administration
James Wilding, President & CEO, Washington Metropolitan Airports Authority
John Meenan, Senior Vice President, Industry Policy, Air Transport Association
Nigel Adams, Vice President Customer Service, Jet Blue
LOCATION: Cecil and Ida Green Building, 2001 Wisconsin Ave. NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-334-2138
WEB ADDRESS:nas.edu
TIME: All Day
EVENT: NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES Policy and Global Affairs Division for Development/ Security/ and Cooperation holds a meeting to discuss Research Standards and Practices to Prevent Destructive Application of Advanced Biotechnology.
AGENDA: Highlights:
9:30 a.m. - The Life Sciences Community and the Safeguarding of Scientific Knowledge
What Should be the Criteria for Determining Whether Scientific and Technical Knowledge Should be Kept Secret for National Security Purposes?
What is the Appropriate Balance Between Safeguarding Information for National Security Reasons and Openness so that the Science and Technology Enterprise Can Function?
Challenges for Government:
Colonel Guy Roberts, Department of the Navy
Dr. Richard Falkenrath, Director, (invited), Office of Policy; Office of Homeland Security
Challenges for the Scientific Community:
R. Timothy Mulcahy, Associate Dean for Biological Sciences and Professor of Pharmacology
Graduate School, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Steven Aftergood, Senior Research Analyst
Federation of American Scientists
DATE: June 25, 2002
LOCATION: National Academies, 500 5th Street NW, Washington, DC,
CONTACT: 202-334-2138
WEB ADDRESS:nas.edu
TIME: 9 a.m.
EVENT: SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION Arthur M. Sackler Gallery holds a press preview for the exhibition of Mughal arts of the book. "The Adventures of Hamza." the Hamzanama is a collection of dramatic stories based loosely on the exploits of Hamza, uncle of the Prophet Muhammad, who traveled the world spreading the teachings of Islam.
DATE: June 25, 2002
LOCATION: 1050 Independence Avenue, SW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-357-3030
WEB ADDRESS:si.edu
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL AERONAUTIC SPACE ADMINISTRATOR SEAN O'KEEFE holds a ceremony presenting Dr. Michael DeBakey, the man known as the father of modern cardiovascular surgery, with the agency's Commercial Invention of the Year award.
AGENDA: Dr. DeBakey is being honored for his work on an innovative heart pump based on technology found in the engines that power space shuttles into orbit. The small ventricular-assist device, known as the VAD, is designed to be a bridge for
heart patients who often are forced to wait months, if not years, for a donor organ.
DATE: June 25, 2002
LOCATION: NASA Headquarters, 300 E St. SW, Washington, DC,
CONTACT: 202-358-1600
WEB ADDRESS:nasa.gov
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH 2002 SUMMER LECTURE SERIES FOR STUDENTS presents "Why the World is Sugar-Coated," Dr. Lawrence A. Tabak, Director, NIDCR.
DATE: June 25, 2002
LOCATION: Masur Auditorium, Building 10, Bethesda, MD
CONTACT: 301-496-2427
WEB ADDRESS:nih.gov
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: NATIONAL ARCHIVES presents David Toomey discussing "Stormchasers: The Hurricane Hunters and Their Fateful Flight into Hurricane Janet." In September 1955, Navy Lt. Comdr. Grover B. Windham and a crew of eight flew out of Guantanamo Bay into the eye of Hurricane Janet--a routine weather reconnaissance mission from which they never returned. Toomey reconstructs the ill-fated mission from preflight checks to the chilling moment of their final transmission.
DATE: June 25, 2002
LOCATION: National Archives, 700 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC,
CONTACT: 202-501-5000
WEB ADDRESS: nara.gov
TIME: 1:30 p.m.
EVENT: SECRETARY OF LABOR ELAINE L. CHAO, U.S. SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR GALE R. NORTON AND U.S. SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE ANN M. VENEMAN hold a news conference announcing the first National Apprenticeship Standards for the National Interagency Joint Apprenticeship Program for Wildland Fires.
DATE: June 25, 2002
LOCATION: Department of Agriculture, 1400 Independence Ave SW, Jamie Whitten Building, Room 107 A, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-693-4676
WEB ADDRESS: dol.gov
TIME: 4 p.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH VRC SEMINAR SERIES presents a lecture entitled "Analysis of Blocks to HIV Replication in Murine and Primate Cells," Dr. Nathaniel Landau, Salk Institute, LaJolla, CA.
DATE: June 25, 2002
LOCATION: Conference Room 1203, Building 40, Bethesda, MD
CONTACT: 301-594-8491
WEB ADDRESS:nih.gov
TIME: 8 p.m.
EVENT: US AIR FORCE BAND 2002 Summer Concert series presents "Singing Sergeants." DATE: June 25, 2002
LOCATION: West Terrace, U.S. Capitol, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-767-5310
WEB ADDRESS: bolling.af.mil/band
