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Appendix C Focus-Group Sessions
Appendix C Focus-Group Sessions
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Appendix C Focus-Group Sessions The Committee on Prospering in the Global Economy of the 21st Century convened focus groups on Saturday, August 6, 2005, from 9 am to 4 pm. The purpose of the focus groups was to gather experts in five broad subjects -- K–12 education, higher education, science and engineering research, innovation and workforce, and national and homeland security -- to provide input to the committee on how the United States can successfully compete, prosper, and be secure in the global community.
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251 APPENDIX C Prospering in the Global Economy of the 21st Century: An Agenda for American Science and Technology Agenda Focus-Group Meeting August 6, 2005 Keck Center of the National Academies 500 5th Street, NW Washington, DC 9:00 Continental Breakfast Available (Room 100) 9:30 Study Overview and Charge to Focus Groups Norman Augustine, Chair, Committee on Prospering in the Global Economy of the 21st Century 10:00 Focus Groups Meet K–12 Education Room 110 Roy Vagelos, Chair Higher Education Room 101 Chuck Vest, Chair Research Room 201 Dan Mote, Chair Innovation Room 204 Gail Cassell, Chair Security Room 105 Anita Jones, Chair 12:00 Lunch (Available in meeting rooms)
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• Evaluate all ideas. • Prioritize all ideas to propose to the committee the top 3 actions the federal government could take so that the United States can successfully compete, prosper, and be secure in the global community of the 21st century.
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253 APPENDIX C Evaluation Criteria • Cost -- What is a rough estimate of how much the action will cost? Is the cost reasonable relative to the financial resources likely to be available?
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• Establish meaningful measures. Top Recommendations 1.
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Blank, Director of Education Indicators, Council of Chief State School Officers Rodger W Bybee, Executive Director, Biological Sciences Curriculum Study Hai-Lung Dai, Hirschmann-Makineni Chair Professor of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania Joan Ferrini-Mundy, Associate Dean for Science and Mathematics Education and Outreach, College of Natural Science, Michigan State University Bruce Fuchs, Director, Office of Science Education, National Institutes of Health Ronald Marx, Professor of Educational Psychology and Dean of Education, University of Arizona David H
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256 RISING ABOVE THE GATHERING STORM Higher Education Focus Group Top Recommendation Summary Charles Vest, Chair National Objective The United States should lead in the discovery of new scientific and technological knowledge and its efficient translation into new products and services in order to sustain its preeminence in technology-based industry and job creation. Our higher education system has a critical role in meeting this objective.
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Lorden, Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, University of North Carolina-Charlotte Claudia Mitchell-Kernan, Vice Chancellor for Graduate Studies and Dean of Graduate Division, University of California, Los Angeles Stephanie Pfirman, Chair, Department of Environmental Science, Barnard College Paul Romer, STANCO 25 Professor of Economics, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University James M Rosser, President and Professor of Health Care Management, California State University, Los Angeles Tim Stearns, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences and Genetics, Stanford University Debra Stewart, President, Council of Graduate Schools Orlando L
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a. Address 21st-century global economy grand challenges in energy, security, health, and environment through interagency initiatives.
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Pratt Distinguished Professor and Chair of Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Virginia David LaVan, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Yale University Philip LeDuc, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University Deirdre R Meldrum, Professor and Director of Genomation Laboratory, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Washington
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2. National Energy Initiative.
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Ron Blackwell, Chief Economist, American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Unions (AFL-CIO) Craig Blue, Distinguished Research Engineer and Group Leader, Materials Processing Group, Metals and Ceramics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Susan Butts, Director, External Technology, Dow Chemical Company Paul Citron, Vice President (retired)
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2. To rebalance security S&T research funding invested in basic re search, dedicate 3% of national defense/homeland security budget to S&T and 20% of S&T budget to long-term research.
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National and Homeland Security Focus Group Anita Jones, Chair Ronald M Atlas, Graduate Dean, Professor of Biology, and Codirector, Center for the Deterrence of Biowarfare and Bioterrorism, University of Louisville Pierre Chao, Senior Fellow and Director of Defense Industrial Initiatives, Center for Strategic and International Studies Richard T
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With Javad Boroumand, he is responsible for Cisco's leadership role in the National Lambda Rail. He has also been an assistant professor of computer science and a college information technology director, and he serves on the National Research Council's Transportation Research Board Subcommittee on Telecommuting and Internet2's Industry Advisory Council.
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He is a member of the Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Advisory Committee, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Planetary Protection Board, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Scientific Working Group on Microbial Genetics and Forensics. He previously served as president of the American Society for Microbiology (ASM)
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. After a year of postdoctoral research in electrical engineering at UCSB, Dr.
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She is a 2001 Packard Fellow, 2001 Alfred P Sloan Research Fellow, and has received the 2000 Presidential Early Career Award for Science and Engineering, 2000 Beckman Young Investigator Award, 1999 DuPont Young Investigator Award, and a 1999 Army Research Office Young Investigators Award.
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and participated in formulation of the OECD Principles of Corporate Governance and the recent review of the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Industrial Relations Research Association; the Research Advisory Council of the Economic Policy Institute; the Board on Manufacturing and Engineering Design of the National Academies; the advisory boards of the Jackson Hole Center for Global Affairs and the International Center for Corporate Governance and Accountability at the George Washington University Law School; and the editorial boards of Perspectives on Work and the New Labor Forum.
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He is working with colleagues in the evolution of an enabling pulse thermal processing technique for flexible electronics, titanium processing, and bulk amorphous materials. SUSAN BUTTS is the director of external technology at the Dow Chemical Company.
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He has received several awards, including Leader of American Education and Outstanding Educator in America; in 1979 he was Outstanding Science Educator of the Year, and in 1998 the National Science Teachers Association presented him its Distinguished Service to Science Education Award. PIERRE CHAO is a senior fellow and director of defense industrial initiatives at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
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His previous position was vice president of science and technology; he had responsibility for corporationwide assessment and coordination of technology initiatives and for priority-setting in corporate research. Citron was awarded a BS in electrical engineering from Drexel University in 1969 and an MS in electrical engineering from the University of Minnesota in 1972.
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Cupitt worked as the associate director and Washington liaison for the Center for International Trade and Security of the University of Georgia, and as a visiting scholar at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, DC.
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Research Advisory Committee and the American Educational Research Association in Special Interest Group for Re
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Office of Science Education.
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Dr. Fuchs has organized and participated in numerous science education outreach efforts directed at students, teachers, and the public.
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Greenwood served as dean of graduate studies, vice provost for academic outreach, and professor of biology and internal medicine at UC, Davis. Previously, she taught at Vassar College, where she was the John Guy Vassar Professor of Natural Sciences and chair of the Biology Department.
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Dr. Hamm has received numerous awards, including the Glaxo Cardiovascular Discovery Award, two Distinguished Investigator Awards from the National Alliance for Research in Schizophrenia and Depression, the Faculty of the Year award from the University of Illinois College of Medicine, and the Stanley Cohen Award "For Research Bringing Diverse Disciplines, such as Chemistry or Physics, to Solving Biology's Most Important Fundamental Problems" from Vanderbilt University in 2003.
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Dr. Happer is a fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society.
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He has served on several national committees on issues in national security space. ROBERT HERMANN is a senior partner of Global Technology Partners, LLC, which specializes in investments in technology, defense, aerospace, and related businesses worldwide.
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He is a member of 11 academic organizations, including Institute of Electrical and Electronics EngineersEngineering in Medicine and Biology Society, the Biomedical Engineering Society, the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, the American Society of Retinal Specialists, the Retina Society, the American Ophthalmological Society, and the American Academy of Ophthalmology. In the last 5 years, as a principal investigator, he has held multiple research grants from the National Science Foundation, DOE, and Second Sight, and oversight on three grants totalling $20 million in funding.
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KATZ [NAE] is the United Microelectronics Corporation Distinguished Professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley (UCB)
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E Just Professor of Natural Sciences and professor of biological sciences at Dartmouth College.
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John's University in New York. Board-certified in orthopaedic surgery, Laurencin is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons, a fellow of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, and an International Fellow in Biomaterials Science and Engineering.
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JAMES A LEWIS is a senior fellow and director of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
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Charlotte as provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs in August 2003. She received a BA and a PhD in psychology from Yale University.
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She received a BS in civil engineering from the University of Washington in 1983, an MS in electrical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1985, and a PhD in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1993. As an engineering cooperative student at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Johnson Space Center in 1980 and 1981, she was an instructor for the astronauts on the shuttle-mission simulator.
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In 2003, Meldrum became a fellow of the AAAS; and in 2004, a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers. CLAUDIA MITCHELL-KERNAN has been vice chancellor for graduate studies and dean of the Graduate Division at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
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He also serves on the editorial boards of Economics of Education Review, the Journal of Education Finance, Educational Policy, and the Journal of Research in Rural Education. He consults widely on matters related to educational productivity and the organizational structuring of schools and school districts and is a past president of the American Education Finance Association.
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In 1999, he was elected an AAAS fellow; and in 2003, he received the National Science Teachers Association's (NSTA's) Distinguished Service to Science Education Award.
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She is a founding member of the Society for Research on Adolescence and was president and council member. She was president of developmental psychology in the American Psychological Association and is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Psychological Association, and the American Psychological Society.
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A few years later, she returned to Stanford to join the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, and she has been there since 1977. Her research concentrates on theoretical particle physics with a focus on phenomenology of the weak interactions; she is involved in outreach activities to encourage interest in physics.
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at the National Defense University in Washington, DC, and participates in its annual National Security Strategy Exercise. In June 2005, she chaired at ICAF the Army's Eisenhower National Security Series event "The State of the U.S.
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She has a keen interest in physics education research and the implications for improving physics teaching at all levels. She is an advocate for the importance of physics and science education for all students to enable data-driven decision-making at all levels of government.
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In 1995, she was appointed global technology manager and is responsible for the management of the R&D Center's Global Technology Acquisition Programs. In that role, she has established research collaborations with organizations around the world.
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Stewart was vice chancellor and dean of the Graduate School at North Carolina State University. She also served as interim chancellor at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (1997)
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Dr. Taylor has served in many capacities at Howard University: he has served as executive assistant to the president, interim vice president for academic affairs, dean of the School of Communications, and chair of the Department of Communication Arts and Sciences.
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ISIAH M WARNER is Boyd Professor and vice chancellor for strategic initiatives of the Louisiana State System (LSU)
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He was inducted into the New Mexico Military Institute Hall of Fame in 1987 and has been honored by the US Naval Academy with its 2005 Distinguished Graduate Award for his lifetime of service to the Navy and the nation. DEAN ZOLLMAN is University Distinguished Professor, Distinguished University Teaching Scholar, and head of the Department of Physics at Kansas State University (KSU)
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In 1989, he worked at Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich on development of measurement techniques for digital video. In 1998, he visited the Institute for Science Education at the University in Kiel, where he investigated student understanding of quantum physics.
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