. "Front Matter." Rising Above the Gathering Storm: Energizing and Employing America for a Brighter Economic Future. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2007.
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Rising Above the Gathering Storm: Energizing and Employing America for a Brighter Economic Future
COMMITTEE ON PROSPERING IN THEGLOBAL ECONOMY OF THE 21ST CENTURY
NORMAN R. AUGUSTINE (Chair), Retired Chairman and CEO,
Lockheed Martin Corporation, Bethesda, MD
CRAIG R. BARRETT, Chairman of the Board,
Intel Corporation, Chandler, AZ
GAIL CASSELL, Vice President, Scientific Affairs, and Distinguished Lilly Research Scholar for Infectious Diseases,
Eli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis, IN
STEVEN CHU, Director,
E. O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA
ROBERT M. GATES, President,
Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
NANCY S. GRASMICK,
Maryland State Superintendent of Schools, Baltimore, MD
CHARLES O. HOLLIDAY, JR., Chairman of the Board and CEO,
DuPont Company, Wilmington, DE
SHIRLEY ANN JACKSON, President,
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
ANITA K. JONES, Lawrence R. Quarles Professor of Engineering and Applied Science,
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
JOSHUA LEDERBERG,
Sackler Foundation Scholar, Rockefeller University, New York, NY
RICHARD LEVIN, President,
Yale University, New Haven, CT
C. D. (DAN) MOTE, JR., President,
University of Maryland, College Park, MD
CHERRY MURRAY, Deputy Director for Science and Technology,
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA
PETER O’DONNELL, JR., President,
O’Donnell Foundation, Dallas, TX
LEE R. RAYMOND, Chairman and CEO,
Exxon Mobil Corporation, Irving, TX
ROBERT C. RICHARDSON, F. R. Newman Professor of Physics and Vice Provost for Research,
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
P. ROY VAGELOS, Retired Chairman and CEO,
Merck, Whitehouse Station, NJ
CHARLES M. VEST, President Emeritus,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
GEORGE M. WHITESIDES, Woodford L. & Ann A. Flowers University Professor,
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
RICHARD N. ZARE, Marguerite Blake Wilbur Professor in Natural Science,