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NSF PA/M 99-5 - February 5, 1999

NSF Honors Recipients Of Presidential Early Career Award For Scientists And Engineers

The National Science Foundation (NSF) will host a ceremony at NSF headquarters in Arlington, Va., to honor the 20 NSF recipients of the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). There are 60 presidential awards given across nine federal agencies. The 9:30 a.m. ceremony on Wednesday, February 10, 1999, will feature greetings from Rita Colwell, Director of NSF, Joseph Bordogna, Acting Deputy Director, and Mary Clutter, Assistant Director for Biological Sciences and NSF's liaison to the federal PECASE program. Awardees will be introduced by Clutter. Mark A. Gluck of the Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience at Rutgers University, and a 1996 PECASE awardee, will address the awardees.

Media representatives may attend the event and talk with the awardees. A White House award ceremony will follow in the afternoon. Contact the Press Office of the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy for more information (202-456-6108).

Who:

NSF Recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers

What:

Recognition Ceremony for NSF's 1998 PECASE awardees

When:

9:30 a.m.
Wednesday, February 10, 1999

Where:

National Science Foundation - Room 1235
4201 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, Va. (Ballston Metro Stop)
(Check-in at the second-floor security desk is required.) Notify the media contact in advance to facilitate passage through security.

For more information contact:
Lee Herring(703) 292-8070kherring@nsf.gov

 

  
 
     
 

 
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