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Appendix A Committee and Staff Biographic Information
Pages 143-152

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... His research efforts were combustion in internal combustion engines, but at the General Motors Research Laboratories he directed research in crash injury, the effects of automotive products on health, atmospheric pollution, automotive exhaust emissions, safety, automobile use, 143
From page 144...
... He has served on five panels of the National Research Council, including the Committee on National Needs for Biomedical and Behavioral Scientists. He has published over 300 articles dealing with a wide array of subjects, including the job market for scientists and engineers, the growth and decline of unions, the effects of immigration and trade on inequality, restructuring European welfare states, international labor standards, Chinese labor markets, transitional economies, youth labor-market problems, crime, self-organizing nonunions in the labor market, employee involvement programs, and income distribution and equity in the marketplace.
From page 145...
... Haslam Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering, and the vice president for research and associate provost of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Until 2001, she was a professor of chemical engineering at Stanford University, professor of the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory and professor, by courtesy, of chemistry at Stanford.
From page 146...
... Dr. Paul held the positions of director of the interdisciplinary graduate program in immunobiology, director of graduate Education in the Department of Microbiology, associate dean for research and graduate studies in the College of Veterinary Medicine, assistant director of agricultural experiment station and associate vice provost for research at Iowa State University.
From page 147...
... ELSA REICHMANIS [NAE] is Bell Labs Fellow and director of the Materials Research Department at Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, NJ.
From page 148...
... She is the recipient of a 1998 Photopolymer Science and Technology Award, the 1999 American Chemical Society (ACS) Applied Polymer Science Awardee, the Society of Chemical Industry's 2001 Perkin Medalist, and a 2001 recipient of Syracuse University's Arents Medal.
From page 149...
... Dr. Stephan has served on several National Research Council committees, including the Committee on Dimensions, Causes, and Implications of Recent Trends in the Careers of Life Scientists; the Committee on Methods of Forecasting Demand and Supply of Doctoral Scientists and Engineers; and the Committee to Assess the Portfolio of the Science Resources Studies Division of NSF.
From page 150...
... He served (via appointment by the congressional leadership) as one of nine commissioners of the US Commission on Immigration Reform (known as the Jordan Commission after its late chair, former Congresswoman Representative Barbara Jordan)
From page 151...
... He has previously contributed as study director or staff to Building a Workforce for the Information Economy, Measuring the Science and Engineering Enterprise, Attracting Science and Mathematics Ph.D.s to K-12 Education, Monitoring International Labor Standards, Trends in Federal Support of Research and Graduate Education, and Observations on the President's Federal Science and Technology Budget.
From page 152...
... His current projects involve the development of the 2005 Assessment of Research Doctorate Programs; the Study of National Needs for Biomedical, Behavioral, and Clinical Personnel; and the evaluation of the Resident Research Associateship Programs.


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