27th Annual AAAS COLLOQUIUM ON SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY POLICY
Science and Technology in a Vulnerable
World:
Rethinking Our Roles
April 11-12, 2002
The Omni Shoreham Hotel Washington, DC
Preliminary Program (as of April 4)
Thursday, April 11
9:00 a.m. Welcome: Alan I. Leshner, Chief Executive Officer, AAAS
9:15 Keynote Address: John H. Marburger, III, Director, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
10:00 BUDGETARY AND POLICY CONTEXT FOR R&D IN FY 2003 (Plenary Session)
Moderator: Kerri-Ann Jones, Director, EPSCoR Program, State of Maine; and member, AAAS Committee on Science, Engineering and Public Policy
· The 107th Congress and Implications for Science and Technology Issues
Scott Lilly, Minority Staff Director, House Committee on Appropriations
· Overview of Federal Budget Proposals for R&D in FY 2003
Kei Koizumi, Director, R&D Budget and Policy Program, AAAS
· National Priorities for Science and Technology: A View from the Academic Sector
G. Wayne Clough, President, Georgia Institute of Technology
· National Priorities for Science and Technology: A View From the Industrial R&D Community
Deborah L. Wince Smith, President, Council on Competitiveness
12:00 Noon Luncheon
Presiding: Albert H. Teich, Director, Science
and Policy Programs, AAAS
Speaker: Phillip J. Bond, Under Secretary for Technology and Chief of Staff
to the Secretary, U.S. Department of Commerce (invited)
1:45 p.m. MAJOR ISSUES IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY POLICY (Concurrent Sessions)
(A) Technological Challenges to Governance
Proliferation of technological innovations · Impacts on society, the economy, and governance · How can governance systems cope? · Making governance functions more responsive and flexible
Moderator: David W. Rejeski, Project Director, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Why Worry? Observations of a Technological
Realist
David W. Rejeski, Project Director, Woodrow Wilson International Center
for Scholars
Policy Implications of Cognitive Neuroscience
Robert Blank, Department of Government, Brunel University (UK)
Long-Range Challenges of Information Technologies
Deborah G. Johnson, Anne Shirley Carter Olsson Professor of Applied Ethics,
School of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Virginia
Technological Change and the Challenges
for Governance
Steven W. Popper, Senior Economist and Associate Director, Science and Technology
Policy Institute, RAND
Other speaker to be announced
(B) The Regulatory Environment for Science: Conflict-of-Interest Issues
What's driving the push for conflict-of-interest regulations in science? · Who should be covered? · Under what circumstances? · Balancing public responsibility and scientific/technological freedom
Moderator: Mark S. Frankel, Program Director,
Scientific Freedom, Responsibility, and Law Program, AAAS
Anne Dievler, Health Care Team, U.S. General Accounting Office
Jennifer Kulynych, Director, Division of Biomedical and Health Services
Research, Association of American Medical Colleges
Bert Spilker, Senior Vice President of Scientific and Regulatory Affairs,
Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America
Virginia Ashby Sharpe, Project Director,
Integrity in Science, Center for Science in the Public Interest
Strengths and weaknesses of the U.S. system for S&T policy · Post-9/11 reassessments · Proposals for "reform" · Is the U.S. system, despite its weaknesses, better than the alternatives?
Moderator: Susan E. Cozzens, Chair, School of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology
S&T Policies Concerning the Environment
Daniel Sarewitz, Managing Director, Center for Science, Policy, and Outcomes
S&T Policies Concerning the Life Sciences
Gilbert Omenn, Executive Vice President for Medical Affairs, University
of Michigan U.S.
US S&T Policies from the Vantage Point of the Developing World
Judi Wangalwa Wakhungu, Associate Professor, Science, Technology and Society
Program; and Director, Women in the Sciences and Engineering Institute,
Pennsylvania State University
A Young Scientist's View of U.S. S&T Policies
Eva Harris, Assistant Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases, School
of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley
4:15 p.m. POLICY ROUNDTABLES WITH AGENCY OFFICIALS (Concurrent Sessions)
Department of Defense: Charles J. Holland, Deputy Under Secretary of Defense 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: Howard H. Garrison, Director, Office of Public Affairs, Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology
National Science Foundation: Joseph Bordogna, Deputy Director
Moderator: Howard J. Silver, Executive Director, Consortium of Social Science Associations
Department of Energy: C. Edward Oliver,
Associate Director, Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research, Office
of Science
Moderator: Michael Lubell, Director of Public Affairs, American Physical Society
5:00 Coffee Break, sponsored by The Blue Sheet
5:30 The William D. Carey Lecture (public invited)
Presiding: Alan I. Leshner, Chief Executive
Office, AAAS
Address: "Risky Business: Research Universities in the Post-9/11 Era."
M.R.C. Greenwood, Chancellor, University of California-Santa Cruz
6:30 Reception
Friday, April 12
7:45 a.m. Breakfast
Presiding: Robert E. Barnhill, Vice
Chancellor for Research and Public Service, University of Kansas; and member,
AAAS Committee on Science, Engineering and Public Policy
Speaker: The Honorable Pat Roberts, Member, U.S. Senate (KS); member, Senate
Committees on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry; Armed Services; Health,
Education, Labor, and Pensions; and Intelligence
9:00 SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY'S ROLES IN THE WAR ON TERRORISM AND HOMELAND DEFENSE (Plenary Session)
Bioterrorism and the adequacy of public health systems · Cyberterrorism and how to deal with it · Technologies for surveillance and identification · S&T needs of the intelligence community · Social-behavioral science contributions · Assistance to developing nations
Moderator: Jane A. Alexander, Deputy Director, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
The Changing Relationship Between Science and
Government, Post-9/11
Lewis M. Branscomb, Professor Emeritus, John F. Kennedy School of Government,
Harvard University Public Health Preparedness
Public Health Preparedness
William Raub, Principal Deputy Director, Office of Public Health Preparedness,
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Protecting U.S. Energy Systems
John P. Holdren, Teresa and John Heinz Professor of Environmental Policy, and
Director of the Program on Science, Technology, and Public Policy, John F. Kennedy
School of Government, Harvard University
Protecting the National Information Infrastructure
Eugene H. Spafford, Professor of Computer Science, and Director, Center for
Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security, Purdue University
Social-Behavioral Science Contributions to Dealing
with National Security
Baruch Fischhoff, University Professor, Department of Social and Decision Sciences,
Carnegie Mellon University
Research Universities and National Security:
Can Traditional Values Survive?
Eugene B. Skolnikoff, Professor of Political Science, Emeritus, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology
12:00 Noon Luncheon
Presiding: Michael L. Telson, Director, National Laboratory Affairs, University of California Federal Government Relations; and member, AAAS Committee on Science, Engineering and Public Policy
Speaker: Lee H. Hamilton, Director, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; former Member, U.S. House of Representatives (IN); and Member, U.S. Commission on National Security/21st Century
1:45 p.m. FORBIDDEN SCIENCE: SHOULD SOME RESEARCH BE OUTLAWED? (Plenary Session)
Moderator: Albert H. Teich, Director, Science and Policy Programs, AAAS
Speakers:
Human Reproductive Cloning
Ronald M. Green, The Eunice and Julian Cohen Professor for the Study of Ethics
and Human Values; Chair, Religion Department; and Director, Ethics Institute,
Dartmouth College
Race and IQ
Howard Taylor, Professor of Sociology, Princeton University
Genetically Engineered Bio-weapons
David A. Kay, Vice President, and Director,
Center for Counterterrorism Technology and Analysis, Science Applications International
Corporation (SAIC)
Discussant: Daniel Kevles, Stanley Woodward Professor of History, Yale University
3:30 p.m. Adjournment
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