26th Annual AAAS COLLOQUIUM ON SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY POLICY

Science and Technology in the New Administration

May 3-4, 2001
The Omni Shoreham Hotel Washington, DC
FINAL DETAILED PROGRAM (as of May 2)

Thursday, May 3

9:00 a.m. Welcome: Mary L. Good, Venture Capital Investors, L.L.C.; and Chair, Board of Directors, AAAS

9:15 Keynote Address: Lawrence B. Lindsey, Assistant to the President for Economic Affairs

10:00 BUDGETARY AND POLICY CONTEXT FOR R&D IN FY 2002 (Plenary Session)

Moderator: Mary L. Good, Venture Capital Investors, L.L.C; and Chair, Board of Directors, AAAS

· The New Congress and Implications for Science and Technology Issues

The Honorable Sherwood L. Boehlert, Member, U.S. House of Representatives (NY); Chair, House Committee on Science
(subject to final confirmation)

· Overview of Federal Budget Proposals for R&D in FY 2002

Kei Koizumi, Director, R&D Budget and Policy Program, AAAS

· Sustaining America's Prosperrity: A Report from the 2001 National Innovation Summit

John Yochelson, President, Council on Competitiveness

· A University Perspective on the Nation’s Key Science and Technology Issues

Mark S. Wrighton, Chancellor and Professor of Chemistry, Washington University in St. Louis

12:00 Noon Luncheon

Presiding: Lydia Villa-Komaroff, Vice President for Research, Northwestern University; and Member, AAAS Board of Directors

Speaker: James D. Watkins, Admiral (Ret.); President, Consortium for Oceanographic Research and Education; former Chief of Naval Operations; and former Secretary of Energy

1:45 p.m. MAJOR ISSUES IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY POLICY (Concurrent Sessions)
  1. The Regulatory Environment for Science: Human Subjects Protection
    2.

    Regulations affecting the conduct and reporting of science · Regulatory burden · Do regulations distort science? · Responsibilities of scientists

    Moderator: Irwin Feller, Director, Institute for Policy Research and Evaluation; and Professor of Economics; The Pennsylvania State University

    Speakers:

    David H. Guston, Associate Professor of Public Policy, Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers University; and Visiting Scholar, Center for Science, Policy, and Outcomes

    Greg Koski, Director, Office for Human Research Protections, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

    Philip E. Rubin, Director, Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences, National Science Foundation

    Howard Schachman, Professor of the Graduate School, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California-Berkeley

    B. The Growth of Industrial R&D and the Federal Policy Environment

    The rapid growth of industrial R&D · What’s behind it? · What does it mean for businesses? · For federal policies? · Will it continue?

    Moderator: J. David Roessner, Associate Director, Science and Technology Policy Program, SRI International

    Speakers:

    Robert Buderi, Editor-at-Large, Technology Review; author of Engines of Tomorrow: How the World’s Best Companies Are Using Their Research Labs to Win the Future

    David C. Mowery, Milton W. Terrill Professor of Business, Haas School of Business, University of California-Berkeley

    Duncan T. Moore, Rudolf and Hilda Kingslake Professor of Optical Engineering, University of Rochester; former Associate Director for Technology, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy

    Parry Norling, Corporate Technology Adviser, E. I. DuPont de Nemours and Company

    C. The New Challenges of Defense R&D

R&D and the changing defense mission · DoD and universities · Missile defense system · Countering the new terrorism · Are science and security concerns compatible? · "Far-horizon" technologies

Moderator: Jane Alexander, Deputy Director, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Department of Defense; and Member, AAAS Committee on Science, Engineering and Public Policy

Speakers:

Anita Jones, Lawrence R. Quarles Professor of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Virginia; former Director of Defense Research and Engineering, U.S. Department of Defense

France A. Cordova, Vice Chancellor for Research, University of California at Santa Barbara

Gerald J. Iafrate, Professor of Electrical Engineering, University of Notre Dame; former director, Army Research Organization

Roger Molander, Senior Research Scientist, RAND

4:15 p.m. POLICY ROUNDTABLES WITH AGENCY OFFICIALS (Concurrent Sessions)

Department of Defense: Delores M. Etter, Deputy Under Secretary for Science and Technology
Moderator: John C. Crowley, Vice President for Federal Relations, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

National Institutes of Health: Ruth L. Kirschstein, Acting Director
Moderator: Robert E. Barnhill, Vice Chancellor for Research and Public Service, University of Kansas; and Member, AAAS Committe on Science, Engineering and Public Policy

National Science Foundation: Joseph Bordogna, Deputy Director
Moderator: George Leventhal, Senior Federal Relations Officer, Association of American Universities

Department of Energy: James F. Decker, Acting Director, Office of Science
Moderator: William A. (Skip) Stiles, Executive Director, Genetic Resources Communications Systems, Inc.; and Member, AAAS Committee on Science, Engineering and Public Policy

5:00 Coffee Break

5:30 The William D. Carey Lecture (public invited)

Presiding: Peter H. Raven, Director, Missouri Botanical Garden; and President, AAAS

Address: "Talking Turkey: Science, The Economy, and the Community"
Neal F. Lane, University Professor, Rice University; former Assistant to the President for Science and Technology, and Director, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy

6:30 Reception

Friday, May 4

7:45 a.m. Breakfast

Presiding: Joanne Padrón Carney, Director, Center for Science, Technology and Congress, AAAS

Speaker: The Honorable Jeff Bingaman, Member, United States Senate (NM); Ranking Minority Member, Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources

9:00 21st CENTURY SCIENCE: WHAT ARE THE POLICY QUESTIONS? (Plenary Session)

Revolutionary new areas · New styles of research · Information technology’s roles · Who is doing science · The changing domestic and international environments for S&T

Moderator: Richard Florida, Director, Center for Economic Development, H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, Carnegie Mellon University; and Member, AAAS Committee on Science, Engineering and Public Policy

Speakers:

Anthony W. Czarnik, Chief Scientific Officer, Sensors for Medicine and Science, Inc.; and Founding Editor, Journal of Combinatorial Chemistry

Leonard Krshtalka, Director, Natural History Museum and Biodiversity Research Center, University of Kansas

Daryl Chubin, Senior Vice President for Policy and Research, National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering, Inc.

Diana Hicks, Senior Policy Analyst, CHI Research, Inc.

Thomas A. Finholt, Director, Collaboratory for Research on Electronic Work, School of Information, University of Michigan

12:00 Noon Luncheon

Presiding: Willie Pearson, Jr., Wake Forest Professor of Sociology, Wake Forest University; and Chair, AAAS Committee on Science, Engineering and Public Policy

Address: Hubert Markl, President, Max Planck Society, Federal Republic of Germany

1:45 p.m. FUNDING ACADEMIC SCIENCE IN AN AGE OF EARMARKS (Plenary Session)

Moderator: Albert H. Teich, Director, Science and Policy Programs, AAAS

Speakers:

James D. Savage, Associate Professor of Government, University of Virginia

John Silber, Chancellor, Boston University

Former Representative David Minge (MN); former co-chair, Congressional Porkbusters Coalition

Norine E. Noonan, former Assistant Administrator for Research and Development, Environmental Protection Agency

Discussant: Howard J. Gobstein, Assistant Vice President and Director of Federal Relations, Michigan State University

3:30 p.m. Adjournment

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