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EVENTS ON THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2003
TIME: All Day
EVENT: NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES Institute of Medicine Board on Health Sciences Policy
Institutional and Policy Strategies for Increasing the Diversity of the Healthcare Workforce holds a workshop on Increasing Racial & Ethnic Diversity in Health Professions.
AGENDA: Highlights:
8:30 a.m - Federation Of American Societies Of Experimental Biology
Steven Teitelbaum, President
DATE: February 6, 2003
LOCATION: 500 5th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-334-2138
WEB ADDRESS: nas.edu
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION will hold a press briefing to provide an update on policy issues related to emerging technologies and implementation of recent recommendations for spectrum reform.
DATE: February 6, 2003
LOCATION: 8th Floor, South Conference Room (8B-516), 445 12th Street SW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-418-0030
WEB ADDRESS: fcc.gov
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: NATIONAL ARCHIVES presents Pulitzer Prize--winner Roger Wilkins discussing his book Jefferson's Pillow: The Founding Fathers and the Dilemma of Black Patriotism. Analyzing the lives of Presidents George Washington and Thomas Jefferson and fellow Virginians George Mason and James Madison, Wilkins discusses how class, education, and personality allowed for the institution of slavery. Wilkins is the Robinson Professor of History and American Culture at George Mason University
DATE: February 6, 2003
LOCATION: National Archives, 700 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC,
CONTACT: 202-501-5000
WEB ADDRESS: nara.gov
TIME: 9 a.m.
EVENT: EDUCATION SECRETARY ROD PAIGE holds the Summit on Mathematics.
AGENDA: Highlights:
9 a.m. -- Education Rod Paige
9:25 a.m. -- Establishing the Need
10:45 a.m. -- Developing a research base
DATE: February 6, 2003
LOCATION: 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-401-1579
WEB ADDRESS: noaa.gov
TIME: 4 p.m.
EVENT: RADIO FREE EUROPE/RADIO LIBERTY holds a program featuring Jeffrey Lilley, Associate Producer, "Avoiding Armageddon" documentary On the Trail of Weapons of Mass Destruction: Filming in Kazakhstan and Russia.
DATE: February 6, 2003
LOCATION: 1201 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-457-6949
WEB ADDRESS: rferl.gov
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: SMITHSONIAN National Zoo presents Tropical Research Institute rainforest biologist William Laurance discussing key threats to the Amazonian ecosystem and explains a major research project to predict the forests' future
DATE: February 6, 2003
LOCATION: 3000 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-357-3030
WEB ADDRESS: si.edu
