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EVENTS ON WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2003
TIME: All Day
EVENT: NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES Institute of Medicine holds a meeting on New Approaches to Early Detection and Diagnosis of Breast Cancer.
DATE: February 19, 2003
LOCATION: 500 5th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-334-2138
WEB ADDRESS: nas.edu
TIME: All Day
EVENT: NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES hold The 170th Meeting of the Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy.
AGENDA: Highlights:
12 noon - Provision of Scientific Advice to Federal Agencies
Guests: Former Science Advisors
Ed David, Jr., President, EED, Inc.
Allan Bromley, Sterling Professor of the Sciences and Dean of Engineering at Yale University
Neal Lane, University Professor and Senior Fellow, James A. Baker III
Institute for Public Policy
AAAS: Alan Leshner, Chief Executive Officer, American Association for
the Advancement of Science
Al Teich, Director of Science & Policy Programs, American
Association for the Advancement of Science
APA: Norman Anderson, Chief Executive Officer, American
Psychological Association
Geoff Mumford, Director of Science Policy, American Psychological Association
APHA: Kelly O'Brien, Director of Science Policy, American Public Health Association
2:30 p.m. - Panel: Postdocs (Singer: Stine)
Geoff Davis, Director, Postdoc Project, Sigma Xi
Carol Manahan, Chair, The National Postdoctoral Association (NPA) Steering
Committee, President, Johns Hopkins Postdoctoral Association
3:30 p.m. - Panel: Interdisciplinary Research (Duderstadt: Stine)
Irwin Feller, Senior Visiting Scientist, American Association for the Advancement of Science and Professor Emeritus at Penn State
Charlotte Kuh, Deputy Executive Director, Policy and Global Affairs
Gerry Rubin, Vice President for Biomedical Research, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
DATE: February 19, 2003
LOCATION: National Academies, 2101 Constitution Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202-334-2138
WEB ADDRESS: nas.edu
TIME: 8:30 a.m.
EVENT: RADIO FREE EUROPE/RADIO LIBERTY holds a program featuring Louis Sell, Adjunct Professor, University of Maine at Farmington discussing Whither Kosovo: The Continuing Destruction of Yugoslavia.
DATE: February 19, 2003
LOCATION: 1201 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202-457-6949
WEB ADDRESS: rferl.gov
TIME: 3 p.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH holds The Wednesday Afternoon 2002-2003 Director's Lecture Series entitled "Neural Correlates of 'Experienced Value' in the Parietal Cortex," with Dr. William T. Newsome, Professor, Department of Neurobiology, Investigator, HHMI, Stanford University School of Medicine.
DATE: February 19, 2003
LOCATION: Masur Auditorium, Building 10
Bethesda, MD
CONTACT: 301-594-5595
WEB ADDRESS: nih.gov
