DONNA E. SHALALA [IOM] (Chair), President,

University of Miami, Miami, Florida

ALICE M. AGOGINO [NAE], Roscoe and Elizabeth Hughes Professor of Mechanical Engineering,

University of California, Berkeley, California

LOTTE BAILYN, Professor of Management,

Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts

ROBERT J. BIRGENEAU [NAS], Chancellor,

University of California, Berkeley, California

ANA MARI CAUCE, Executive Vice Provost and Earl R. Carlson Professor of Psychology,

University of Washington, Seattle, Washington

CATHERINE D. DEANGELIS [IOM], Editor-in-Chief, Journal of the American Medical Association,

Chicago, Illinois

DENICE DEE DENTON,* Chancellor,

University of California, Santa Cruz, California

BARBARA J. GROSZ, Higgins Professor of Natural Sciences,

Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and

Dean of Science,

Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

JO HANDELSMAN, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor,

Department of Plant Pathology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin

NANNERL O. KEOHANE, President Emerita,

Duke University, Durham, North Carolina

SHIRLEY MALCOM [NAS], Head, Directorate for Education and Human Resources Programs,

American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington, DC

GERALDINE RICHMOND, Richard M. and Patricia H. Noyes Professor,

Department of Chemistry, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon

ALICE M. RIVLIN, Senior Fellow,

Brookings Institution, Washington, DC

RUTH SIMMONS, President,

Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island

ELIZABETH SPELKE [NAS], Berkman Professor of Psychology,

Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts