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NSF PA/M 00-01 (NSB 00-26) - January 27, 2000
National Science Board to Meet in California (Feb 2-3)
Highlight: Symposium on Communicating Science and Technology
The National Science Board (NSB) will meet February 2-3 at the Arnold & Mabel
Beckman Center in Irvine, Ca. for its annual policy meeting and its regular
business meeting. The policy meeting is held off-site -- rather than at
National Science Foundation headquarters in Arlington, Va. -- to facilitate
external participation. Journalists are invited to attend.
Regular business meeting agenda
9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Wed., Feb. 2 (Beckman Center, Lecture Room)
- Chairman's Report, Director's Report
- NSF Strategic Plan
- NSB Report: Environmental Science & Engineering in the 21st Century
- Committee on Communication and Outreach: Interim Report
NSB Symposium: Communicating Science and Technology in the Public
Interest
10:30 a.m.- 5:30 p.m. Wed., Feb. 2 (Beckman Center Auditorium)
8:30 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Thurs. Feb. 3 (Beckman Center, Lecture Room)
Representatives of Sun Microsystems, Cisco Systems, National Public
Radio, San Jose Mercury News and others will join academic leaders and
NSB members to discuss public understanding and public outreach as essential
to a successful science and technology policy.
Highlights/Feb. 2:
10:45 a.m. Keynote address on Public Policy and Polling (Mary Woolley,
Research!America)
1:00 p.m. Public Affairs Panel
3:00 p.m. Entertainment & News Media Panel
Highlights/Feb. 3:
8:45 a.m. New Technologies Panel
10:45 a.m. Research on How to Communicate Science and Engineering
Attachment: NSB Symposium: Communicating
Science and Technology in the Public Interest
For more information contact:
Mary Hanson (703) 292-8070/mhanson@nsf.gov or
Bill Noxon (703) 292-8070/wnoxon@nsf.gov (media)
Jean Pomeroy (703) 306-2000/jpomeroy@nsf.gov (non-media)
For the entire agenda, see: http://www.nsf.gov/nsb/meetings/start.htm (click
on first item).
Attachment
NSB Symposium: Communicating Science and Technology in the Public Interest
Speakers and Panelists
Public Policy and Polling:
· Mary Woolley, President and CEO, Research!America
Public Affairs Panel:
· Mary Good, Partner, Venture Capital Investors; Former Chair,
NSB
· Jon Miller, Vice President, Chicago Academy of Sciences and
Director, Center for Biomedical Communications, Northwestern University
Medical School
· Skip Stiles, Consultant; Former chief of staff for Rep. George
V. Brown, Jr., and former legislative director for the House Science Committee
Entertainment & News Media Panel:
· David Yarnold, Senior Vice President & Executive Editor, San
Jose Mercury News
· Joann Rodgers, Director of Media Relations, The Johns Hopkins
Medical Institutions
· Ira Flatow, Host/Executive Producer, "Science Friday," National
Public Radio; News Director, Science and Technology News Network, Sananna
Productions, Inc.
New Technologies Panel:
· David Baltimore, President, California Institute of Technology
· Anita Borg, President, Institute for Women and Technology
· Jim Mitchell, Vice President of Sun Microsystems and Director,
Sun Labs
Research on How to Communicate Science and Engineering:
· Rick Borchelt, Chair of NASA's "Research/Roadmap for Communication
of Science and Technology for the 21st Century" Working Group
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