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A Committee Member and Staff Biographical Information
Pages 465-470

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From page 465...
... Previously, he was executive director of Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society. He was deputy and principal deputy assistant secretary of defense, 1972-1977; White House Energy Office and deputy assistant secretary of energy, 1977-1978; and commissioner of the U.S.
From page 466...
... She has been vice president for education for the Organization for Tropical Studies (1978-1985) and a member of the board of directors since 1974; vice president of the Ecological Society of America; director on the board of the Community Health Plan of Suffolk County, Long Island, New York; an appointee to the Environmental Conservation Board for the Village of Head of the Harbor, New York; a consultant to Brookhaven National Laboratory; a National Science Foundation visiting professor; a Fulbright fellow; and a member of the board of directors of the American Institute of Biological Sciences.
From page 467...
... Most of his assignments have involved the development of chemical processes or of new products. He is serving on the chemical-engineering advisory board at Cornell, on a National Research Council committee advising the Navy on technologies for dealing with shipboard wastes, and on the American Chemical Society Pollution Prevention Program Committee.
From page 468...
... . He received the Ralph Coats Roe Award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 1974, the honor award and medal from Stevens Institute of Technology in 1975, the Public Welfare award from the National Academy of Sciences in 1976, the Distinguished Service Award from the National Science Foundation in 1990, and the W.R.
From page 469...
... Staff Biographical Information Lawrence E McCray is director of the National Research Council's Policy Division and executive director of the Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy.
From page 470...
... Sevcik is the program assistant for the National Forum on Science and Technology Goals. Before his work at the National Research Council, Mr.


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