R&D Budget and Policy Program

ARCHIVE: 2005 AAAS Forum on Science & Technology Policy

Thursday, 21 April

AAAS News Article on the Opening Session

Welcoming Remarks: Gilbert S. Omenn, Professor of Internal Medicine, Human Genetics, and Public Health, University of Michigan; and President, AAAS

Keynote Address: John H. Marburger, III, Director, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy

BUDGETARY AND POLICY CONTEXT FOR R&D IN FY 2006 (Plenary Session)

Moderator: Gilbert S. Omenn, Professor of Internal Medicine, Human Genetics, and Public Health, University of Michigan; and President, AAAS

An Overview of the Federal Budget Situation
Paul L. Posner, Managing Director, Federal Budget Issues, U.S. Government Accountability Office
- The Nation's Growing Fiscal Imbalance (PDF slides)

AAAS Analysis of Federal Budget Proposals for R&D in FY 2006
Kei Koizumi, Director, R&D Budget and Policy Program, AAAS
- Federal Budget Proposals for R&D in FY 2006 (PDF slides). See also the AAAS Analysis of R&D in the FY 2006 Budget and AAAS Report XXX: R&D FY 2006

Three Challenges to Winning Greater Public Investment in Science
Scott Lilly, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress

A Major State Experiment in Funding Research for Public Health
Robert Klein, Chair of the Board, California Institute for Regenerative Medicine

Luncheon

Presiding: Lydia Villa-Komaroff, Vice President for Research and Chief Operating Officer, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research; and Member, AAAS Board of Directors

Address: Arden L. Bement, Jr., Director, National Science Foundation
- Text of speech

MAJOR ISSUES IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY POLICY (Concurrent Sessions)

• (A) The Future of Scientific Communication (Formerly Known as Publishing)
  • Clifford A. Lynch, Executive Director, Coalition for Networked Information
    --Where Things Are Headed Technologically
  • Carol Tenopir, Professor, School of Information Sciences, University of Tennessee-Knoxville
    --What Scientists Really Need Regarding Publishing and Access
  • David Stern, Director of Science Libraries and Information Services, Kline Science Library, Yale University
    --Archival Issues Regarding Electronic Scientific Literature
  • Donald W. King, Research Professor, School of Information Science, University of Pittsburgh
    --The Economics of Science Publishing

• (B) A Systemic View of the S&T Workforce: From Policy to Institutional Practice to Personal Choice
  • AAAS News Article on the Session
  • Moderator: Daryl Chubin, Director, Center for Advancing Science and Engineering Capacity, AAAS
    -- A Systemic View of the S&T Workforce
  • Anthony P. Carnevale, Senior Fellow, National Center on Education and the Economy
    -- If We're So Dumb, Why Are We So Rich?
  • William O. Berry, Acting Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Laboratories and Basic Science, U.S. Department of Defense
    -- Science and Engineering Workforce Defense Needs and Constraints: The Future is Now
  • Joan Robinson-Berry, Director, External Affiliations, The Boeing Company
  • Norine Noonan, Dean, School of Science and Mathematics, College of Charleston
  • Shirley Malcom, Director, Education and Human Resources, AAAS

• (C) Science and Global Health Disasters
  • Moderator: Sharon Hrynkow, Acting Director, Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health
  • Henry Masur, Chief, Critical Care Medicine Department, Warren G. Magnuson Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health; and President-Elect, Infectious Diseases Society of America
    --Emerging Infections
  • Ali Khan, Associate Director for Science, Division of Parasitic Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    -- Tsunamis, Anthrax, & SARS: New science, unified preparedness
  • Charles H. Riemenschneider, Director, Liaison Office for North America, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
    --Avian Influenza—Global Threats and Future Research Needs
    -- also Paper Text (PDF)
  • Irina V. Dardynskaia, Research Associate Professor, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Illinois at Chicago; and Associate Director, Project on International Research and Training in Occupational and Environmental Health in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus
    --Chernobyl, Its Long-Term Impacts, and Lessons for Policy Makers
  • Jerome Donlon, Acting Director, Office of Research and Development Coordination,
    Office of Public Health Emergency Preparedness, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
    -- Chemical Threats and Disasters

• 2005 AAAS William D. Carey Lecture:
  Rush D. Holt, Member, U.S. House of Representatives (D-NJ); member, House Committee on Education and the Workforce, and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
  --What is the Use of Research?
  • AAAS News Coverage of the Lecture

Friday, 22 April

Breakfast speaker:

Presiding: Braden R. Allenby, Professor, Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering, Arizona State University; and Chair, AAAS Committee on Science, Engineering and Public Policy

Address: Norman Ornstein, Columnist for Roll Call, Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute
-- Roll Call column: Bad Policy Choices Are Worrisome for U.S. Economy’s Future (AEI web site)

THE ROLE OF R&D IN THE U.S. AND GLOBAL ECONOMIES (Plenary Session)

• Moderator: F. M. Ross Armbrecht, Jr., Executive Director, Delaware Foundation for Science and Mathematics Education
• Peter Cannon, Managing Partner, VRE Company
  -- A View from U.S. Industry
• Martin Neil Baily, Senior Fellow, Institute for International Economics; and former Chairman, President’s Council of Economic Advisors
  -- A Perspective on U.S. Federal Government Activities
• Masayuki Kondo, National Institute of Science and Technology Policy (NISTEP); and Professor, Yokohama National University
  -- A Comprehensive Review of Japan's S&T Basic Plans
• Marco DiCapua, Science Counselor (India), U.S. Department of State
  --The Indian Technology Century - How Close Is It To Happening?
• Hessamaddin Arfaei, Iranian Institute for Theoretical Physics and Mathematics; and Professor of Physics, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran
  -- Status of Scientific Research: Iran 2005

SCIENCE VERSUS SOCIETY? WHEN SCIENTIFIC INTERESTS AND PUBLIC
ATTITUDES COLLIDE (Plenary Session)

• Moderator: Albert H. Teich, Director, Science and Policy Programs, AAAS
• Eugenie C. Scott, Executive Director, National Center on Science Education
  -- Evolution vs. Creationism /“Intelligent Design”
• John Gearhart, C. Michael Armstrong Professor of Medicine, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University
  -- Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research and Therapeutic Cloning
• Lawrence M. Krauss, Professor and Chair, Department of Physics, Case Western Reserve University
  -- When Sentiment and Fear Trump Reason and Reality