MAXINE F. SINGER (Chair), President,

Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington, DC

BRUCE M. ALBERTS,* President,

National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC

ENRIQUETA C. BOND, President,

The Burroughs Wellcome Fund, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina

LEWIS M. BRANSCOMB, Professor Emeritus,

Center for Science and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

PETER DIAMOND, Professor,

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge

GERALD P. DINNEEN,* Vice President,

Science and Technology, Honeywell, Inc. (retired), Edina, Minnesota

MILDRED S. DRESSELHAUS,†

Institute Professor of Electrical Engineering and Physics,

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts

JAMES J. DUDERSTADT,

President Emeritus and University Professor of Science and Engineering,

Millennium Project, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

MARYE ANNE FOX, Chancellor,

North Carolina State University, Raleigh

RALPH E. GOMORY, President,

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, New York, New York

RUBY P. HEARN, Senior Vice President,

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Princeton, New Jersey

BRIGID L. M. HOGAN, Investigator,

Howard Hughes Medical Institute and

Hortense B. Ingram Professor,

Department of Cell Biology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee

SAMUEL H. PRESTON, Dean,

University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences, Philadelphia

KENNETH I. SHINE,* President,

Institute of Medicine, Washington, DC

MORRIS TANENBAUM, Vice Chairman and Chief Financial Officer,

AT&T (retired), Short Hills, New Jersey

IRVING L. WEISSMAN,

Karel and Avice Beekhuis Professor of Cancer Biology and Professor of Pathology,

Stanford University School of Medicine, California

SHEILA E. WIDNALL,

Abby Rockefeller Mauze Professor of Aeronautics,

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge

WILLIAM JULIUS WILSON,

Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor,

Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

WILLIAM A. WULF,* (President,

National Academy of Engineering, Washington, DC

RICHARD E. BISSELL, Executive Director

DEBORAH D. STINE, Associate Director

MARION RAMSEY, Administrative Associate