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Appendix C Convocation Program and Speaker Biographies
Appendix C Convocation Program and Speaker Biographies
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The convocation consists of four elements: · A series of panel discussions with federal, private, and international funding organizations, researchers, research center directors, and educators. · Poster sessions where attendees can share their experiences.
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Hutchinson Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Economics, The University of Chicago JOHN D STOBO, President, University of Texas Medical Branch of Galveston IRVING WEISSMAN, Karel and Avice Beekhuis Professor of Cancer Biology, Stanford University SHEILA WIDNALL, Abbey Rockefeller Mauze Professor of Aeronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology WM.
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· Identifying and analyzing current structural models of interdisciplinary research. · Identifying and analyzing the policies and procedures of Congress, funding organizations, and institutions that encourage or discourage interdisciplinary research.
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M Keck Foundation announced a 15-year, $40 million grant from the Keck Foundation to underwrite the "National Academies Keck Futures Initiative," a new program designed to realize the untapped potential of interdisciplinary research.
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APPENDIX C 225 CONTENTS Page Agenda .
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APPENDIX C 227 The National Academies Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy Committee on Facilitating Interdisciplinary Research CONVOCATION ON FACILITATING INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH January 29-30, 2004 National Academy of Sciences Building 2101 Constitution Avenue, NW Washington, D.C. AGENDA Thursday, January 29, 2004 9 AM Opening Remarks Nancy Andreasen, Co-Chair, Cmte on Facilitating Interdisciplinary Research 9:15 Federal Research Funding Agency Perspectives on Facilitating Interdisciplinary Research Moderator: Mary Lou Zoback, Member, Cmte on Facilitating Interdisciplinary Research · Rita Colwell, Director, National Science Foundation · Ray Orbach, Director, Office of Science, Department of Energy · William Berry, Director, Basic Research, ODUSD, Department of Defense · Lawrence Tabak, Director, National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, National Institute of Health · Cliff Gabriel, Deputy Associate Director, Science Division, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
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MacArthur Foundation · Barry Gold, Program Officer, Conservation and Science, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Carmen Charette, Senior Vice President, Canada Foundation for Innovation · Anthony Armstrong, Director, Indiana 21st Century Research & Technology Fund 12:30 PM Lunch 1:30 Interdisciplinary Researchers' Perspectives on Facilitating Interdisciplinary Research Moderator: Stan Cohen, Member, Cmte on Facilitating Interdisciplinary Research · F Sherwood Rowland, Bren Research Professor, Chemistry and Earth System Science, University of California at Irvine · Joel Cohen, Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor, Laboratory of Populations, Rockefeller University and Columbia University · Lee Magid, Professor, Chemistry, University of Tennessee, and Acting Director, Joint Institute for Neutron Sciences, UT and Oak Ridge National Laboratory · Diana Rhoten, Program Officer, Social Science Research Council · Feniosky Peña-Mora, Associate Professor of Construction Management and Information Technology William E
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APPENDIX C 229 3:00 Break 3:15 Research Center Directors' Perspectives on Facilitating Interdisciplinary Research Moderator: Mario Molina, Member, Cmte on Facilitating Interdisciplinary Research · Harvey Cohen, Professor, Pediatrics, Stanford School of Medicine, and Chair, The Interdisciplinary Initiatives Committee, Bio-X, Stanford University · Catherine Ross, Director, Center for Quality Growth, Georgia Tech · Pierre Wiltzius, Director, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, and Professor, Materials Science and Engineering Department and Physics Department University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · Uma Chowdhry, Vice President, Central Research and Development, DuPont · Jeffrey Wadsworth, Director, Oak Ridge National Laboratory · Ruzena Bajcsy, Director, Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society, University of California, Berkeley 4:45 Break 5-6:00 PM Plenary Discussion Moderator: Nancy Andreasen, Co-Chair, Cmte on Facilitating Interdisciplinary Research Discussant: Julie Thompson Klein, Professor of Humanities, Wayne State University 6-7:00 PM Poster Session Friday, January 30, 2004 9:00 AM Welcome Theodore Brown, Co-Chair, Cmte on Facilitating Interdisciplinary Research Perspectives on Education and Training: Creating a New Generation of Interdisciplinary Researchers Moderator: Jennifer Chayes, Member, Cmte on Facilitating Interdisciplinary Research
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, University of Michigan · Edward Miles, Professor of Marine Studies and Public Affairs, University of Washington · Alice Gottlieb, Professor of Medicine and Director of the Clinical Research Center, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, University of Medicine and Dentistry New Jersey · James Collins, Ullman Professor of Biology, Arizona State University · Julio de Paula, Professor of Chemistry, Haverford College 10:45 Break 11:00 Plenary Discussion Moderator: Theodore Brown, Co-Chair, Cmte on Facilitating Interdisciplinary Research 11:45 Closing Comments 12:00 Adjourn Copies of the PowerPoint presentations will be available shortly after the Convocation at http://www.nationalacademies.org/interdisciplinary
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She was named to Discover Magazine's November 2002's list of the 50 most important women in science. In April of 2003 she received the CRA Distinguished Service Award and in May 2003 she was named to PITAC (the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee)
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Dr. Carroll was a Research Chemist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Aeronomy Laboratory between 1984 and 1992, following a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Colorado's Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences.
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in Biochemistry and a Bachelor of Business Administration, buth from the University of Ottawa. UMA CHOWDHRY is vice president of Central Research & Development (CR&D)
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Ullman Professor of Natural History and the Environment in the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University. From 1989 to 2002 he was Chairman of the Zoology, then Biology Department.
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Dr. Gabriel handles issues for OSTP related to agricultural biotechnology, animal and plant health, animal welfare, food safety, plant genomics, pesticides, Gulf War veterans' illnesses, and dioxin.
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BARRY GOLD is Program Officer for Conservation and Science at the The David and Lucile Packard Foundation and in this role leads the Foundation's efforts to develop and implement two new strategies. The first is intended to foster the development of the emerging field of sustainability science, while the second will guide scientific activities in support of the Foundation's Oceans and Coasts program.
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Her present projects include: the study of texture's effect on shape perception and the design and synthesis of texture patterns to facilitate accurate shape representation; the study of texture perception and the development of methods for effectively using texture in visualizing multivariate data and representing data uncertainty; the development of algorithms for the effective detection, tracking and visualization of vortical structures in turbulent boundary layer flows; and the study of spatial perception in immersive virtual environments and the use of VR technology in the development of tools to enhance the process of conceptual design in architecture. She received her B.A.
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He has served as chairman of the Ocean Policy Committee, National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council (197479) ; member of the Executive Board, Law of the Sea Institute, 1972-81 and 1985-89 and President 1989-93; Chairman of the Legal and Institutional Task Group on the Implications of Disposal of High-Level Radioactive Waste into the Seabed and Advisor to the Executive Committee, Seabed Working Group, Nuclear Energy Agency, OCED, 1981-1987; and Chairman of the Advisory Committee on International Programs of the National Science Foundation, 1990-92.
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Sloan Foundation Fellowships, a National Science Foundation Senior Postdoctoral Fellowship, a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, the Joliot Curie Professorship at the Ecole Superieure de Physique et Chimie Industrielle de la Ville de Paris, the Lorentz Professorship at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands, and the 1991-1992 Andrew Lawson Memorial Lecturer at UC Riverside. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society and the AAAS.
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She has received numerous research and training grants from the National Institutes of Health. She has served on National Institutes of Health, California Breast Cancer Research Council and American Cancer Society grant review panels.
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Rhoten also studies cross-programmatic strategies in philanthropy. CATHERINE ROSS is the Georgia Tech College of Architecture's first endowed faculty member -- the Harry West Chair for Quality Growth and Regional Development.
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He is a Fellow of the American Society for Metals and the Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society. In 2003, he was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in recognition of "distinguished contributions in developing advanced materials and superplasticity, and in determining the history and origins of Damascus and other steels, and for broad scientific leadership supporting national security." PIERRE WILTZIUS is director of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology; a professor in both the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and the Department of Physics; and a full-time Beckman Institute faculty member in the Nanoelectronics and Biophotonics
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Pierre Wiltzius received his Ph.D. in physics from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETHZ)
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Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy American Chemical Society American College of Radiology American Health Information Management Association American Institute of Biological Sciences American Institute of Physics American Mathematical Society American Museum of Natural History American Psychological Association American Psychological Society American Society of Cell Biology American Society of Plant Biologists American Sociological Association Arizona State University Arnold & Porter ASHP Research & Education Foundation Association of American Geographers Atlantic Philanthropies (USA) Baltimore City Public Schools Bar-Ilan University BART IGERT: Biosphere-Atmosphere Research and Training Program Biophysical Society Brookhaven National Laboratory Buffalo State College Burroughs Wellcome Fund California State University Program for Education and Research in Biotechnology Canadian Institute for Advanced Research Consortium for Oceanographic Research and Education
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APPENDIX C 245 Contemporary Communications, Inc. Cornell University Council on Undergraduate Research Des Moines University Duke Center for Environmental Solutions Duke University Ecological Society of America Embassy of France Embassy of Switzerland EnTech Strategies, LLC Environment Canada Experimental Program to Stimulate Experimental Research Foundation Faculty Career and Diversity Consultant Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology Flattau Associates, LLC Florida A & M University Food and Drug Administration Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center George Washington University Georgia Institute of Technology Graduate Partnerships Program Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh Gulf Coast Consortia Harvard University Health Resources and Services Administration House Resources Committee Howard Hughes Medical Institute Howard University Independent Consultant Industry-University Cooperative Research Program Institute for Prevention Research James Madison University JMW Associates John Templeton Foundation Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health Land Information and Computer Graphics Facility Lewis-Burke Associates Lincoln University of Pennsylvania Louisiana Tech University Mathematical Association of America McGeary and Smith Medical College of Georgia Michigan State University
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246 APPENDIX C Montclair State University Mouvement Burkinabè d'Ecologie National Aeronautics Space Administration Marshall Space Flight Center National Cancer Institute National Education Knowledge Industry Association National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering National Institute of Mental Health National Institute of Standards and Technology National Institute on Drug Abuse National Institutes of Health National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada National Institute for Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering/National Institutes of Health National Institute of General Medical Sciences National Institutes of Health/National Heart, Lung, & Blood Institute National Institute of Mental Health National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/OAR Northern Arizona University Northwestern University National Science Foundation Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center/Ohio State University Ohio State University Office of Management and Budget Office of Naval Research Global Office of Science & Technology Policy Office of the Director, NIH Office of Translational Research & Scientific Technology Oklahoma State University Orthotic and Prosthetic Assistance Fund, Inc. Paralyzed Veterans of America Pennsylvania State University Potomac College Purdue University Research for Better Schools Rutgers University Sandia National Laboratories SETI Institute Social Science Research Council Society for Women's Health Research Southern Illinois University Carbondale Stony Brook University
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Environmental Protection Agency U.S. State Department Utah Addiction Center University of Texas at Dallas University of Texas Medical Branch Vanderbilt University Vanderbilt University Medical Center Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
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M Keck Foundation Washington State University Washington University School of Medicine Water Environment Research Foundation Wind Hollow Foundation Women in International Security Yale University School of Medicine
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