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NSF PA/M 00-03 - February 18, 2000
NSF Staff and Grantees Featured at AAAS Meeting
National Science Foundation (NSF) staff and grantees will contribute
a wide range of insights and research findings at the annual meeting of
the American Association for the Advancement of Science, in such areas
as the effects of climate change on health, best practices for teaching
mathematics and exciting breakthroughs on the nanoscale. The meeting,
titled "Science in an Uncertain Millennium," is underway through Feb.
22 at the Marriott Wardman Park and the Omni Shoreham hotels in Washington
D.C.
NSF Director Rita Colwell, an internationally known microbiologist,
will deliver a topical lecture, "From Microscope to Kaleidoscope: Merging
Fields of Vision," Friday, Feb. 18, 12:30 p.m. She will also take part
in the panel "Human Health and Climate Change" on Friday, 2:30-5:30 p.m.
and a panel on "The New Microbiology" Sunday, Feb. 20, 3-6 p.m.
Other programs that feature NSF-funded researchers or NSF staff include:
- Climate change research: NSF-funded researcher Eugene Domack,
Hamilton College, will address climate changes recorded in ocean sediments
near the Antarctic Peninsula on the panel "Unearthing Climate Variability
from the Geologic Record." The sediments record changes in sea ice, surface
water temperature and possibly glacial activity over the last 10,000
years. This area may be a key to understanding regional signals of "global
warming." Friday, Feb. 18, 9 a.m.-noon.
- Science workforce: Daryl Chubin, senior policy officer
for the National Science Board, is the organizer for "Human Resources
for Science, Technology, the Nation, and the World," a day-long symposium
that will take stock of the research, policy and programmatic lessons
in human resource development for science and technology. Panelist Mary
Golladay, of NSF's Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences,
will address "Changes in the Workforce: Education, Experiences, Employers.” Friday,
Feb. 18, 9 a.m.
- Mathematics education: Several NSF-funded researchers
will contribute to "College Is Too Late: Teaching Mathematics to Children
and Adolescents." The symposium is organized by Ann Howe, North Carolina
State University, and features George Bright, University of North Carolina;
Patricia Campbell, University of Maryland; and Barbara Dougherty, University
of Hawaii. Saturday, Feb. 19, 9 a.m.-noon.
- Computer-speech interaction: Two NSF-funded researchers,
Patti Price, SRI International, and Mari Ostendorf, University of Washington,
will contribute to a panel on "Humans, Computers and Speech," which
will explore whether advances in speech recognition, speaker recognition
and speech synthesis can make spoken language a convenient and reliable
means of interacting with computers. Saturday, Feb. 19, 2000, 3-6 p.m.
- Nanotechnology: Mihail Roco of NSF's Engineering Directorate
and NSF-supported researchers Jene Golovchenko, Harvard University,
and Steven Block, Princeton University, take part in "Nanotechnology
for the 21st Century." Roco heads an interagency working group that
is developing federal priorities for nanotechnology research and development.
Sunday, Feb. 20, 9 a.m.-noon.
- Cosmology: Rolf Sinclair, a former program manager
in NSF's Physics Division, will chair "The New Cosmology: Theory Confronts
Observation." The
panel features NSF-funded researchers Clifford Will, Washington University
in St. Louis, Mo.; Christopher Stubbs, University of Washington; Andrew
Lange, California Institute of Technology; and Jeremiah Ostriker, Princeton
University. They will discuss how research in the last decade has transformed
science's ability to measure key parameters of the universe and how,
for the first time, theory can confront experiment, and the history,
nature, age, and fate of the universe are becoming clear. Sunday, Feb.
20, 9 a.m.-noon.
- Sun-Earth interactions: Three researchers who have
received NSF support will participate in "The Far Future Sun and the
Ultimate Fate of the Earth." Lee Anne Wilson, Iowa State University,
James Kastin, Pennsylvania State University, and Fred Adams, University
of Michigan,
will explore the history and future of the solar system, including our
own planet. Sunday, Feb. 20, 9 a.m.-noon.
- Neutrinos: Steven Barwick, an NSF grantee at the University
of California-Irvine, will discuss an NSF-funded initiative to build
a detector called AMANDA under the Antarctic ice sheet at the South
Pole to study some of the most elusive particles known to science on
the panel "Neutrino Experiments: A New Window on the Universe." Sunday,
Feb. 20, 3-6 p.m.
For more information contact:
Bill Noxon (703) 292-8070/wnoxon@nsf.gov
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