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APPENDIX B: BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
Pages 99-118

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From page 99...
... Carey Award, American Society of Mechanical Engineers President's Award, American Chemical Society Public Service Award, American Astronomical Society/American Mathematical Society/American Physical Society Public Service Award, NASA Distinguished Service Award, Council of Science Societies Presidents Support of Science Award, Distinguished Alumni Award of the University of Oklahoma, the National Academy of Sciences Public Welfare Medal, the American Institute of Physics K.T. Compton Medal for Leadership in Physics and the Association of Rice Alumni Gold Medal for service to Rice University.
From page 100...
... In this position, Bertuzzi advises the NIH Director on a wide range of health science policy matters related to the impact of biomedical research on knowledge generation, health, wealth, and national competitiveness. Bertuzzi is the NIH lead for the STAR Metrics Project, which under the auspices of the White House Office of Science Technology and Policy aims at developing a novel infrastructure to capture the impact of federal R and D investments.
From page 101...
... Congress. In 1993, President Clinton appointed Carnevale as chairman of the National Commission for Employment Policy.
From page 102...
... In addition, Corrado is a senior fellow of the Georgetown University Center for Business and Public Policy, and a member of the executive committee of the National Bureau of Economic Research's (NBER) Conference on Research on Income and Wealth.
From page 103...
... He directs the National Bureau of Economic Research / Sloan Science Engineering Workforce Projects, and is Senior Research Fellow in Labour Markets at the London School of Economics' Centre for Economic Performance. Freeman is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Science.
From page 104...
... Previously, Friedman was senior vice president for policy studies at the Work in America Institute, where he directed research and special projects on workplace issues. He was also an adjunct lecturer in political science at Lehman College, a research fellow at the Samuels Center for State and Local Politics, and a practitioner in the field of counseling psychology.
From page 105...
... From 1989 until he ran for congress in 1998, Holt was Assistant Director of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, the largest research facility of Princeton University and the largest center for research in alternative energy in New Jersey. He has conducted extensive research on alternative energy and has his own patent for a solar energy device.
From page 106...
... He holds a Ph.D. in physics from Princeton University and an A.B., magna cum laude, in physics, from Columbia University.
From page 107...
... He has received several international awards for his work, including two from the American Agricultural Economics Association: Quality of Research Discovery Award in 1988 and Outstanding Journal Article of the Year (Honorable Mention)
From page 108...
... He is recipient of a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation "Investigator Award" to study how the NIH allocates its funds across disease areas. MARCIO DE MIRANDA SANTOS is Executive Director of the Centre for Strategic Management and Studies in Science, Technology and Innovation and Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Center of
From page 109...
... . Santos was recently appointed as a member of the Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research Independent Scientific and Partnership Council.
From page 110...
... JOHN STASKO joined the faculty at Georgia Tech in 1989, and is presently the Associate Chair of the School of Interactive Computing and Director of the Information Interfaces Research Group in the College of Computing. His primary research area is human-computer interaction, with a focus on information visualization and visual analytics.
From page 111...
... She has served on several National Research Council committees, is a regular participant in the National Bureau of Economics Research's meetings in Higher Education, and is a participant in the Science and Engineering Workforce Project based at the National Bureau of Economic Research. She currently is serving a three-year term as a member of the Advisory Board for the Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences at the National Science Foundation.
From page 112...
... He also holds appointments in the Department of Physics and Enrico Fermi Institute at Chicago and is member of the scientific staff at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. Turner received his B.S.
From page 113...
... Simultaneously, he was head of target discovery for Novartis Crop Protection AG, where he implemented a fully integrated agricultural chemical lead discovery program based on proprietary molecular targets. This program relied on extensive interactions with biotech firms and academic labs.
From page 114...
... . Woteki served as Global Director of Scientific Affairs for Mars, Incorporated, where she manages the company's scientific policy and research on matters of health, nutrition, and food safety.
From page 115...
... . For his work on patent reform he was recognized as one of the 50 leading world intellectual property experts by Managing Intellectual Property magazine and awarded the National Academies' 2005 Distinguished Service Award.
From page 116...
... He has worked on such National Academies' publications as Rising Above the Gathering Storm, Revisited: Now Approaching Category 5; The Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence (Third Edition) ; Managing University Intellectual Property in the Public Interest; and Direct-toConsumer Genetic Testing.
From page 117...
... , which was one of five finalists for the 2002 nonfiction National Book Award and received the Science-in-Society Award from the National Association of Science Writers. His book, Count Down: Six Kids Vie for Glory at the World's Toughest Math Competition (Houghton Mifflin)


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