LANE CONFERENCE - SPEAKER BIOS

Dr. Bruce Alberts is president of the National Academy of Sciences and chair of the National Research Council, the principal operating arm of the National Academies of Sciences and Engineering. He is a respected biochemist recognized for his work in both biochemistry and molecular biology and is known particularly for his extensive molecular analyses of the protein complexes that allow chromosomes to be replicated. Dr. Alberts joined the faculty of Princeton University in 1966 and after ten years moved to the medical school of the University of California, San Francisco. In 1980, he was awarded an American Cancer Society lifetime research professorship. In 1985, he was named chair of the UCSF department of biochemistry and biophysics. Dr. Alberts is one of the principal authors of "The Molecular Biology of the Cell," now in its third edition, considered the leading advanced textbook in this field and used widely in U.S. colleges and universities. His most recent text, "Essential Cell Biology," is intended to present this subject matter to a wider audience. He is committed to the improvement of science education; he helped to create City Science, a program for improving science teaching in San Francisco elementary schools.

Dr. Richard A. Anthes, President of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) since September 1988, is an atmospheric scientist, author, educator and administrator. While attending the University of Wisconsin-Madison to earn his bachelor's degree, Dr. Anthes pursued his interest in meteorology by working as a student trainee for the U.S. Weather Bureau at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration during the summers of 1962 through 1967. Dr. Anthes' masters and doctorate theses, obtained in 1967 and 1970 respectively from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, reflected his interest in hurricanes and tropical cyclones. Dr. Anthes became an educator in 1971, when he started teaching and conducting research at Pennsylvania State University where he attained a full professorship in 1978. During this period, he also took a year to teach as a visiting research professor at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) welcomed Dr. Anthes in 1981 when he became the director of NCAR's Atmospheric Analysis and Prediction Division. In 1986, Dr. Anthes was selected to become the director of NCAR. His leadership ability and administrative talent, his drive for excellence and his vision for the future of the atmospheric and related sciences were further recognized when he was selected to become the president of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) in 1988. Dr. Anthes has published over 90 articles and books.

Dr. Frederick Bernthal is the President of the Universities Research Association (URA), a consortium of 90 research-oriented universities. Among its other activities, URA operates Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory on behalf of the Department of Energy. Dr. Bernthal started his work in policy as a science advisor to Senator Howard Baker of Tennessee. In 1980 he was named Chief Legislative Assistant to then Senate Majority Leader Baker, on whose staff he served until 1983, when he was appointed to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. In 1988 he was appointed Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans, Environment, and Science, and from 1990-94 he was Deputy Director of the National Science Foundation, where he also served for one year as Acting Director. He was named as the President of URA in 1994. Dr. Bernthal received a B.S. degree in Chemistry from Valparaiso University and a Ph.D. in Nuclear Chemistry from the University of California at Berkeley. From 1970-80 he was a professor of Chemistry and Physics at Michigan State University. He is the author of over 50 published scientific and policy papers.

Dr. Rosina Bierbaum is dean of the School of Natural Resources and Environment (SNRE) at the University of Michigan. Prior to joining SNRE, Dr. Bierbaum was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as associate director at the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). During her tenure at the White House, she provided scientific input and guidance on numerous environmental issues, including ecosystem management, environmental monitoring, natural hazards, endocrine disrupters, global change, air and water quality, endangered species, biodiversity, and energy research and development.
Dr. Bierbaum was recently elected to the boards of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Energy Foundation, and the Federation of American Scientists. She serves as the U.S. Scientific Expert, Permanent Court of Arbitration of Disputes Relating to Natural Resources and/or the Environment, in Hague, on the Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate of the National Research Council of the National Academies; the Executive Committee of the Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan; the oversight Committee of the Environmental and Energy Study Institute; the Design Committee for "The State of the Nation's Ecosystems" at the H. John Heinz III Center; and the Advisory Board for Frontiers in Ecology & the Environment, a new journal of the Ecological Society of America. Dr. Bierbaum received a B.S. in Biology and a B.A. in English from Boston College and a Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolution from the State University of New York, Stony Brook.

Dr. Joseph Bordogna is Deputy Director and Chief Operating Officer of the National Science Foundation and served previously as head of NSF's Directorate for Engineering. Complementing his NSF duties, he is a member of the President's Management Council; has chaired Committees on Manufacturing, Environmental Technologies, and Automotive Technologies within the President's National Science and Technology Council; and was a member of the U.S.-Japan Joint Optoelectronics Project. Prior to appointment at NSF, Dr. Bordogna served at the University of Pennsylvania as Alfred Fitler Moore Professor of Engineering, Director of The Moore School of Electrical Engineering, Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science, and Faculty Master of Stouffer College House, a living-learning student residence at the University. Dr. Bordogna received his B.S.E.E. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and his S.M. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has made contributions to the engineering profession in a variety of areas including early laser communications systems, electro-optic recording materials, holographic television playback systems, and early space capsule recovery. Dr. Bordogna was a founder of PRIME (Philadelphia Regional Introduction for Minorities to Engineering) and served on the Board of The Philadelphia Partnership for Education, community coalitions providing, respectively, supportive academic programs for K-12 students and teachers.

Dr. D. Allan Bromley is the first Sterling Professor of the Sciences and was Dean of Engineering from 1994-2000 at Yale University. During 1989-1993, he was The Assistant to the President for Science and Technology and Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) in the Executive Office of the President of the United States.
One of the world’s leading nuclear physicists, Dr. Bromley was founder and Director of the A. W. Wright Nuclear Structure Laboratory at Yale from 1963-1989. From 1972 until 1993 he held the Henry Ford II Professorship in Physics at Yale and from 1970 to 1977 served as chairman of the Yale Physics Department. Dr. Bromley has published over 500 papers in science and technology in his distinguished career as well as edited or authored twenty books and has received numerous honors and awards, including, in 1988, the National Medal of Science, the highest U.S. scientific award.
Prior to his appointment to the Bush Administration, Dr. Bromley served as a member of the White House Science Council throughout the Reagan Administration and as a member of the National Science Board in 1988-89.
Born in Westmeath, Ontario, Canada, he received the B.S. degree in 1948 in the Faculty of Engineering at Queen’s University, Ontario, Canada. He received the M.S. degree from Queen’s University in 1950 and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Rochester in 1952, both degrees in nuclear physics.

Dr. Gregory H. Canavan is a Senior Fellow and Scientific Advisor at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). Dr. Canavan received a B.S. in mathematics from the U.S. Air Force Academy, an M.B.A. from Auburn University, and a M.S. and Ph.D. in Applied Sciences from the University of California, Davis.
Previously, Dr. Canavan has served as the Director of the Office of Inertial Fusion at the Department of Energy. He has also served as a White House Fellow in the Office of Energy Policy and Planning and a Special Assistant to the Chief of Staff in the U.S. Air Force. He has prior work experience at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and at the U.S. Air Force Research Phillips Laboratory. Currently, outside of his position at LANL, Dr. Canavan is a fellow in the American Physical Society, a consultant to the Army Science Board, and the Chairman of the Board of Director of the Hertz Foundation. He is also a retired Colonel in the U.S. Air Force.

Dr. Rita R. Colwell became the 11th Director of the National Science Foundation on August 4, 1998. Before coming to NSF, Dr. Colwell was President of the University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute, 1991-1998, and she remains Professor of Microbiology and Biotechnology (on leave) at the University Maryland. She was also a member of the National Science Board from 1984 to 1990.
Dr. Colwell has held many advisory positions in the U.S. Government, non-profit science policy organizations, and private foundations, as well as in the international scientific research community. She is a nationally respected scientist and educator, and has authored or co-authored 16 books and more than 600 scientific publications. She produced the award-winning film, Invisible Seas, and has served on editorial boards of numerous scientific journals.
Dr. Colwell is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Medal of Distinction from Columbia University, the Gold Medal of Charles University, Prague, the UCLA Medal from the University of California, Los Angeles, and the Alumna Summa Laude Dignata from the University of Washington, Seattle. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophy Society, a Foreign Member of the Royal Society of Canada, and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Born in Beverly, Massachusetts, Dr. Colwell holds a B.S. in Bacteriology and an M.S. in Genetics, from Purdue University, and a Ph.D. in Oceanography from the University of Washington.

Dr. Robert F. Curl is the Kenneth S. Pitzer – Schlumberger Professor of Natural Sciences, member of the Department of Chemistry at Rice University and a University Professor. Dr. Curl received his bachelor’s degree from Rice University in 1954. He earned his doctorate in 1957 from the University of California at Berkley under Dr. Kenneth Pitzer. After a one-year post-doctoral stint in the Mallinkrodt Laboratory at Harvard University, Dr. Curl returned to Rice University as an assistant professor in 1958, where he remains to this day. A great deal of Dr. Curl’s research has been collaborative, involving other principals both at Rice University and elsewhere. One of these collaborations led to the discovery of fullerenes and the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Dr. Curl’s current research is in the area of physical chemistry with emphasis on spectroscopy, gas phase kinetics, and environmental monitoring. He is also a Scholar at the Rice Quantum Institute and a member of the National Academy of Science.

Ambassador Edward P. Djerejian, the founding Director of the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University, is one of the United States’ most distinguished diplomats with his career spanning the administrations of eight U.S. Presidents. A leading expert on the complex political, security, economic, religious, and ethnic issues of the Middle East, Ambassador Djerejian has played key roles in the Arab-Israeli peace process, the U.S.-led coalition against Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait, successful efforts to end the civil war in Lebanon, the release of U.S. hostages in Lebanon, and the establishment of collective and bilateral security arrangements in the Persian Gulf.
Prior to his nomination by President Clinton as United States Ambassador to Israel, Ambassador Djerejian served both President Bush and President Clinton as Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs and President Reagan and President Bush as U.S. Ambassador to the Syrian Arab Republic. Ambassador Djerejian has also served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, as Special Assistant to the President and Deputy Press Secretary for Foreign Affairs in the White House, and as Deputy Chief of the U.S. mission to the Kingdom of Jordan.
A foreign service officer since 1962, other assignments include political officer in Beirut, Lebanon, and Casablanca, Morocco, Consul General in Bordeaux, France, and he headed the political section in the U.S. Embassy in Moscow during the critical period in U.S.-Soviet relations marked by the invasion of Afghanistan. Ambassador Djerejian served in the United States Army as a First Lieutenant in the Republic of Korea following his graduation from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He holds both a Bachelor of Science and an Honorary Doctorate in Humanities from Georgetown University and is fluent in Arabic, Russian, French and Armenian.
Ambassador Djerejian has been awarded the Presidential Distinguished Service Award, the Department of State's Distinguished Honor Award, the President's Meritorious Service Award and the Ellis Island Medal of Honor.

Dr. Mildred Dresselhaus is an Institute Professor of Physics and Engineering at MIT. She began her higher education at Hunter College in New York City and received a Fulbright Fellowship to attend the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge University (1951-52). Professor Dresselhaus received her master's degree at Radcliffe College (1953) and her Ph.D. at the University of Chicago (1958). Professor Dresselhaus began her MIT career at the Lincoln Laboratory. During that time she switched from research on superconductivity to magneto-optics, and carried out a series of experiments that led to a fundamental understanding of the electronic structure of semi-metals, especially graphite.
A leader in promoting opportunities for women in science and engineering, Professor Dresselhaus received a Carnegie Foundation grant in 1973 to encourage women's study of traditionally male dominated fields, such as physics. In 1973, she was appointed to The Abby Rockefeller Mauze chair, an Institute-wide chair, endowed in support of the scholarship of women in science and engineering. In 2000, Dr. Dresselhaus was appointed the Director of the Office of Science at the Department of Energy where she stayed until January 2001.

Dr. John H. Gibbons is internationally renowned for his contributions to physics, energy, environment, and technology/public policy. He served as Assistant to the President for Science and Technology and Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy from 1993 to 1998. Prior to his White House service, Dr. Gibbons was Director of the U.S. Congressional Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) for over thirteen years and was the first Director of the U.S. Office of Energy Conservation (1973-1974). After leaving the White House, Dr. Gibbons served as the Karl T. Compton Lecturer at MIT (1998-1999) and Senior Fellow at the National Academy Engineering (1999-2000). During 1999-2001 he was Senior Advisor to the U.S. Department of State where he assisted the Secretary in revitalizing science and technology capabilities, including creating the position of Science Advisor to the Secretary. From 2000-2001 he was the elected President of Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society. He currently serves on a number of Boards and Committees in both the public and private sectors. He has received numerous national and international awards and is author of about 100 publications. Dr. Gibbons received his Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics and Chemistry from Randolph-Macon College (1949) and his Ph.D. from Duke University (1954).

Dr. Malcolm Gillis is the President of Rice University and the Ervin Kenneth Zingler Professor of Economics. Dr. Gillis received his A.A. from Chipola Junior College, his B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of Florida, and his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois. His first academic position was as an assistant professor of economics at Duke University, followed by a 15-year stint at Harvard. He returned to Duke in 1984 as professor of economics and of public policy. From 1986 to July 1991, Dr. Gillis was dean of the graduate school and vice provost for academic affairs. He served as dean of the faculty of Arts and Sciences at Duke from 1991-93. In July of 1993 Dr. Gillis became the sixth president of Rice University.
Dr. Gillis’ research and teaching activities fall into two broad classes of national and international issues: fiscal reform and environmental policy. He has published over 70 articles in journals. He is author, co-author, or editor of eight books, including a widely acclaimed 1988 publication, Public Policies and the Misuse of Forest Resources and Tax Reform in Developing Countries published in 1989, and the leading textbook in its field, Economics of Development (4th edition

Dr. M.R.C. Greenwood is Chancellor of the University of California, Santa Cruz, a position she has held since July 1, 1996. In addition to her position as Chancellor, Dr. Greenwood also holds a UC Santa Cruz appointment as professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. Prior to her UC Santa Cruz appointments, Chancellor Greenwood served as Dean of Graduate Studies, Vice Provost for Academic Outreach, and Professor of Biology and Internal Medicine at the University of California, Davis. Previously, Dr. Greenwood taught at Vassar College where she was the John Guy Vassar Professor of Natural Sciences, Chair of the Department of Biology, and Director of the Undergraduate Research Summer Institute. From November 1993 to May 1995, Dr. Greenwood held an appointment as Associate Director for Science at the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) in the Executive Office of the President of the United States. Dr. Greenwood graduated summa cum laude from Vassar College and received her Ph.D. from The Rockefeller University. Her research interests are in developmental cell biology, genetics, physiology, nutrition and science and higher education policy issues. Her work over the past 25 years, focusing on the genetic causes of obesity, is recognized worldwide. She is also the author of numerous scientific publications and presentations.

Colonel Houston T. “Terry” Hawkins (USAF Retired) is the Special Advisor to the Director of Los Alamos National Laboratory. He is an internationally recognized specialist on modern terrorism particularly terrorism involving the potential use of weapons of mass destruction. Since coming to Los Alamos in 1988, he has lead major technical programs aimed at detecting, preventing and reversing the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. Terry has received numerous awards and recognition for his work including the Earl Warren Medallion, the Aviation Week & Space Technology 2000 Laurels Award, the Valley Forge Freedoms Foundation Medal, the Legion of Merit, and two Defense Superior Service Medals. He is a graduate of Clemson University, National Defense University, and LaSalle Extension University School of Law.

Dr. John P. Holdren is the Teresa and John Heinz Professor of Environmental Policy and Director of the Program on Science, Technology, and Public Policy in the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government, and Professor of Environmental Science and Public Policy in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University. Trained in engineering and plasma physics at MIT and Stanford, he co-founded in 1973 and co-led until 1996 the interdisciplinary graduate-degree program in energy and resources at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of about 300 articles and reports on plasma physics, fusion energy technology, energy and resource options in industrial and developing countries, global environmental problems, impacts of population growth, and international security and arms control, and he has co-authored and co-edited some twenty books and book-length reports on these topics. Dr. Holdren is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He chairs the NAS Committee on International Security and Arms Control as well as NAS/NAE committees US/India cooperation on energy and environment and US/Russia cooperation on nuclear nonproliferation and counter-terrorism. He was a member of President Clinton's Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) from 1994 to 2001 and chaired five PCAST studies on nuclear materials management and on energy R&D strategy.

Dr. Anita Jones is the Lawrence R. Quarles Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences at the University of Virginia. She received a bachelor's degree from Rice University in mathematics, a Master of Arts degree in literature from the University of Texas at Austin, and a Ph.D. degree in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University. She then joined the faculty at Carnegie Mellon University. In 1988, Jones became a professor and chair of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Virginia. Her research focuses on the design and implementation of software systems, including enforcement of security policies, operating systems, and scientific databases. She has published two books and more than 40 technical articles in the area of computer software and systems.
From 1993-1997 she served at the U.S. Department of Defense where, as Director of Defense Research and Engineering, she oversaw the department's science and technology program, research laboratories, and DARPA. She received the U.S. Air Force Meritorious Civilian Service Award and a Distinguished Public Service Award. She serves as vice chair of the National Science Board and co-chair of the Virginia Research and Technology Advisory Commission. She is a member of the Defense Science Board, the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory Corporation, and the National Research Council Advisory Council for Policy and Global Affairs. She is an ACM Fellow, an IEEE Fellow, the author of 40 papers and two books.

Dr. Raymond Juzaitis is the Associate Director for Weapons Physics at Los Alamos National Laboratories (LANL). Dr. Juzaitis received his B.S.E. in Chemical Engineering from Princeton University and his M.E and Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Virginia. He first came to LANL on an Associated Western Universities Fellowship as a doctoral student in 1978. After several years as a staff member at LANL, Dr. Juzaitis was selected as the Special Scientific Advisor at the Pentagon, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Atomic Energy). Later, he was appointed the Deputy Division Leader in the Field Test Division from 1990-1992. In 1992, Dr. Juzaitis was also a Scientific Advisor for NTS events. That year he also became was the Division Director for Applied Theoretical and Computational Physics. In 1998 he served in the Office of Defense Programs, Department of Energy as a Senior Technical advisor. There he chaired the complex-wide Program Integration Task Force, which developed a set of recommendations for the restructuring of Defense Program offices to promote the integration of weapons science elements and improve overall coherence enterprise-wide science and manufacturing/ production activities. In 1999 and 2000, Dr. Juzaitis was the Director of the National Hydrotesting Program and the Deputy Associated Laboratory Director for Nuclear Weapons. After a one-year sabbatical, Dr. Juzaitis returned in 2001 as the Associate Director for Weapons Physics, where he has programmatic responsibilities over nuclear weapon physics design and assessment effort.

Thomas Kalil is currently the Special Assistant to the Chancellor for Science and Technology at UC Berkeley. Previously, Thomas Kalil served as the Deputy Assistant to President Clinton for Technology and Economic Policy, and the Deputy Director of the White House National Economic Council. He was also appointed by President Clinton to serve on the G-8 Digital Opportunity Task Force (dot force). Prior to joining the White House, Tom was a trade specialist at the Washington offices of Dewey Ballantine, where he represented the Semiconductor Industry Association on U.S.-Japan trade issues and technology policy. He also served as the principal staffer to Gordon Moore in his capacity as Chair of the SIA Technology Committee. Tom received a B.A. in political science and international economics from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and completed graduate work at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. He is the author of articles and opinion editorials on S&T policy, nanotechnology, nuclear strategy, U.S.-Japan trade negotiations, U.S.-Japan cooperation in science and technology, the National Information Infrastructure, distributed learning, and electronic commerce.

Dr. Henry Kelly is the President of the Federation of American Scientists. Before he joined FAS in June 2000, he spent seven and a half years as Assistant Director for Technology in the White House's Office of Science and Technology helping negotiate and implement major administration research partnerships in energy and the environment, information technology, and learning technology. These included partnerships for new automobile and truck technology, housing technology, bioprocessing technology, and information technology. He convened the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee and helped translate their advice into a large expansion and refocusing of federal information technology research. He also was instrumental in creating major federal programs in learning technology for children and adults, including an executive order accelerating use of instructional technology for training federal civilian and military employees. Dr. Kelly received his B.A. in Physics from Cornell University in 1967 and a Ph.D. in physics from Harvard University in 1971. He received the ACEEE Champion of Energy Efficiency Award in 2000, and is a fellow of the American Physical Society. He is the author of numerous books and articles on issues in science and technology policy.

Dr. Neal Lane is the Edward A. and Hermena Hancock Kelly University Professor at Rice University. He also holds appointments as Senior Fellow of the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, where he is engaged in matters of science and technology policy, and in the Department of Physics and Astronomy. Prior to returning to Rice University, Dr. Lane served in the Federal government as Assistant to the President for Science and Technology and Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, from August 1998 to January 2001, and as Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) and member (ex officio) of the National Science Board, from October 1993 to August 1998. Before becoming the NSF Director, Dr. Lane was Provost and Professor of Physics at Rice University in Houston, Texas, a position he had held since 1986. He first came to Rice in 1966, when he joined the Department of Physics as an assistant professor. In 1972, he became Professor of Physics and Space Physics and Astronomy. He left Rice from mid-1984 to 1986 to serve as Chancellor of the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. In addition, from 1979 to 1980, while on leave from Rice, he worked at the NSF as Director of the Division of Physics. Dr. Lane received his Ph.D., M.S. and B.S. in physics from the Oklahoma University.

Dr. Eugene Levy holds the Howard R. Hughes Chair as Provost and Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Rice University. He obtained a Ph.D. in Physics from University of Chicago (1971). Prior to joining Rice in 2000, Dr. Levy served as Dean of the College of Science at the University of Arizona, where he was also the Head of the Planetary Sciences Department and Director of the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory from 1983-1993. There he established the NASA/Arizona Space Grant College Consortium and served as its director for eleven years. Among his many awards, he was given the NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal in 1983, and from 1985 to 1991, he held appointments as Distinguished Visiting Scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of the University of California Institute of Technology. In Germany in 1989, Dr. Levy was presented with an Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung Senior Scientist Award. At the University of Arizona, Professor Levy received a Martin Luther King, Jr. Distinguished Leadership Award in 1996, and in 1999, he was the inaugural recipient of the Hispanic Alumni Association Outstanding Administrator Award. Currently, Dr. Levy is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Associated Universities, Inc. (AUI) (2001-2004). He also serves as a member of the NASA Planetary Protection Advisory Committee (2002-05) and the NASA Nuclear Systems Initiative Science Definition Team (2002-04). His research interests are focused in the areas of theoretical cosmic physics and are aimed at elucidating mechanisms and processes that underlie physical phenomena in planetary and astrophysical systems.

Dr. Shirley Malcom is Head of the Directorate for Education and Human Resources Programs of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). She serves as a Regent of Morgan State University and as a trustee of Caltech. In addition she has chaired a number of national committees addressing education reform and access to scientific and technical education, careers and literacy. Dr. Malcom is also a former trustee of the Carnegie Corporation of New York. She is a fellow of the AAAS and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She served on the National Science Board, the policymaking body of the National Science Foundation, from 1994 to 1998 and from 1994-2001 served on the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. Dr. Malcom received her doctorate in ecology from Pennsylvania State University; master's degree in zoology from the University of California, Los Angeles; and bachelor's degree with distinction in zoology from the University of Washington. In addition she holds thirteen honorary degrees. In 2003 Dr. Malcom received the Public Welfare Medal of the National Academy of Sciences, the highest award given by the Academy.

Dr. Michael MacCracken is the President of the International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences (IAMAS). Dr. MacCracken received his B.S. in Engineering degree from Princeton University in 1964 and his Ph.D. degree in Applied Science from the University of California Davis/Livermore in 1968. Following his graduate work, MacCracken joined the Physics Department of the University of California’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) as an atmospheric physicist. His research in the ensuing 25 years included numerical modeling of various causes of climate change and of factors affecting air quality. From 1993-2002, MacCracken was on assignment as senior global change scientist to the interagency Office of the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) in Washington D.C. From 1997-2001, he was executive director of the USGCRP’s coordination office for the US National Assessment. He also coordinated the official U.S. Government reviews of several of the assessment reports prepared by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and has been a co-author/contributing author of various chapters in some of the reports. MacCracken retired on September 30, 2002 from LLNL, and is currently engaged in several part-time tasks, including serving on the integration team for the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment.

Dr. John H. Marburger, III, Science Adviser to the President and Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, was born on Staten Island N.Y., grew up in Maryland near Washington D.C. and attended Princeton University (B.A., Physics 1962) and Stanford University (Ph.D. Applied Physics 1967). Before his appointment in the Executive Office of the President, he served as Director of Brookhaven National Laboratory from 1998, and as the third President of the State University of New York at Stony Brook (1980-1994). He came to Long Island in 1980 from the University of Southern California where he had been a Professor of Physics and Electrical Engineering, serving as Physics Department Chairman and Dean of the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences in the 1970’s. In the fall of 1994 he returned to the faculty at Stony Brook, teaching and doing research in optical science as a University Professor. Three years later he became President of Brookhaven Science Associates, a partnership between the university and Battelle Memorial Institute that competed for and won the contract to operate Brookhaven National Laboratory.

Dr. Tom Meyer, a CVF Director since 2002, is the Associate Director of Strategic Research at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). Tom joined LANL in 2002 following a long career as a faculty member and administrator at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Following a year as a NATO postdoctoral fellow at University College, London, Dr. Meyer joined the faculty of UNC-Chapel Hill in 1968 where he was promoted to Associate Professor in 1972 and subsequently to Full Professor in 1975. While in North Carolina, Tom served on the North Carolina Board of Science & Technology, the Executive Committees of the North Carolina Biotechnology Center, the Research Triangle Institute, and the Triangle University Center for Advanced Study and on the Board of Associated Universities, Inc. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has published nearly 500 papers, holds three patents and is one of the most highly cited chemists in the world. Dr. Meyer holds a B.S. in Chemistry from Ohio University and a Ph.D. in Chemistry from Stanford University.

Dr. Ernest J. Moniz is Professor of Physics and Director of Energy Studies, Laboratory for Energy and the Environment at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he has served on the faculty since 1973. Dr. Moniz served as Under Secretary of the Department of Energy from October 1997 until January 2001. He had responsibility for energy, environment, and science programs and also served as the Secretary's special negotiator for Russia initiatives, particularly those aimed at disposition of Russian nuclear weapons materials. He also served from 1995 to 1997 as Associate Director for Science in the Office of Science and Technology Policy in the Executive Office of the President, where his responsibilities spanned the physical, life, and social and behavioral sciences, science education, and university-government partnerships. At MIT, Dr. Moniz served as Head of the Department of Physics and as Director of the Bates Linear Accelerator Center. His principal research contributions have been in theoretical nuclear physics, particularly in advancing nuclear reaction theory at high energy.
Dr. Moniz received a Bachelor of Science degree in physics from Boston College, a doctorate in theoretical physics from Stanford University, and honorary doctorates from the University of Athens and the University of Erlangen-Nurenburg. Dr. Moniz is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Humboldt Foundation, and the American Physical Society and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He received the 1998 Seymour Cray HPCC Industry Recognition Award for vision and leadership in advancing scientific simulation.

Dr. Duncan Moore is a Professor in the Department of Optical Engineering at the University of Rochester. Dr. Moore received his Ph.D. in Optics from the University of Rochester in 1974. He had previously earned a master's degree in Optics at Rochester and a bachelor's degree in Physics from the University of Maine. Dr. Moore has extensive experience in the academic, research, business, and governmental arenas of science and technology. In 1993, Dr. Moore began a one-year appointment as Science Advisor to Senator John D. Rockefeller IV of West Virginia. He also chaired the successful Hubble Independent Optical Review Panel organized in 1990 to determine the correct prescription of the Hubble Space Telescope. In addition, Dr. Moore is the founder and former president of Gradient Lens Corporation of Rochester, NY, a company that manufactures the high-quality, low-cost Hawkeye boroscope. Dr. Moore is the Rudolf and Hilda Kingslake Professor of Optical Engineering and Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Rochester. He is also Special Assistant to the University President and Executive Director of the University, Industry and Government Partnership for Advanced Photonics. Previously, from 1995 until the end of 1997, he served as Dean of Engineering and Applied Sciences at the University. The U.S. Senate confirmed Dr. Moore in the fall of 1997 for the position of Associate Director for Technology in The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), where he served until 2001.

Dr. Norman P. Neureiter was the Science and Technology Adviser to the Secretary of State from 2000 - 2003. Since taking early retirement in 1996 from Texas Instruments (TI), where he was Vice President of TI Asia, Dr. Neureiter has served as U.S. co-chair of the U.S.-Japan Joint High Level Advisory Committee. Concurrently, he served as a U.S. Commissioner of the Maria Sklodowska-Curie Joint Fund II. In 1998, Dr. Neureiter was appointed to the Committee on International Space Programs of the National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council's Space Studies Board. Dr. Neureiter has also served as Director (and past president) of the Dallas Council on World Affairs, a Director (and past president) of the Japan-America Society of Dallas/Fort Worth, and Vice-Chairman of the Board of the Council on International Educational Exchange (CIEE) in New York. Prior to his work with private industry, Dr. Neureiter worked as International Affairs Assistant in the White House Office of Science and Technology during 1969-1973, reporting to the President's Science Adviser. Dr. Neureiter entered the U.S. Foreign Service in 1965, serving as Deputy Science Attache in the U.S. Embassy in Bonn, Germany. From 1967-1969, he was the first U.S. Science Attache in Eastern Europe, based at the U.S. Embassy, Warsaw, with responsibility for Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Poland. From 1963 to 1965, Dr. Neureiter worked in the International Affairs Office of the National Science Foundation (NSF) in Washington, D.C. Dr. Neureiter received a B.S. in chemistry from the University of Rochester (N.Y.) in 1952 and a Ph.D. in organic chemistry from Northwestern University in 1957.

Dr. Larry Papay recently joined SAIC as the Sector Vice President for the Integrated Solutions Sector. Prior to joining SAIC, Dr. Papay was the Senior Vice President and General Manager of Bechtel Technology & Consulting, and was responsible for monitoring new technologies and developing new businesses employing those technologies, including technological developments that impact existing business lines as well as the engineering and construction business in general.
Dr. Papay received a B.S. in Physics from Fordham University in 1958, a M.S. in Nuclear Engineering from MIT in 1965, and a Sc.D. in Nuclear Engineering, MIT in 1969. He is a nationally recognized authority in engineering, science and technology. He currently serves on numerous special committees, panels, and task forces including the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, Secretary of Energy Advisory Board. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, National Science Foundation, National Research Council, American Nuclear Society, and Electric Power Research Institute. He is a registered Professional Engineer (Nuclear) in California.

Dr. Robert E. Palmer is the Democratic Staff Director of the Science Committee where he has been since January of 1995. Prior to this position, he was the Chief of Staff of the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology in the 103rd Congress (1993-1994). The House Science Committee is responsible for legislation and oversight of most of the Federal Government’s civilian research and development programs, including space, energy, transportation, basic research, cooperative government-industry R&D, and the environment. Dr. Palmer manages both the long-term legislative and oversight plan of the Committee’s 22 Democratic Members and the day-to-day activities of the 16 Democratic staff members. Dr. Palmer came to the Committee in 1979 as a AAAS Congressional Science Fellow. From 1980-1993 he held a number of positions with the Committee, including Senior Policy Coordinator, Staff Director of the Investigations and Oversight Subcommittee, and Staff Director of the Subcommittee on International Scientific Cooperation. Dr. Palmer holds a B.A. in psychology from Harvard University, an M.S. in biology from Northeastern University, and a Ph.D. in marine biology from the University of Delaware. Prior to his employment with the Committee, Dr. Palmer had worked as a VISTA volunteer, a AAAS Congressional Science Fellow, a research scientist in marine biology, and a private detective. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, he currently lives on the Eastern Shore of Maryland with his wife Mary Christman, a professor in statistics at the University of Maryland.

Dr. Richard Smalley is the Gene and Norman Hackerman Professor of Chemistry and a Professor of Physics at Rice University. Dr. Smalley received his B.S. degree in 1965 from the University of Michigan and Ph.D. from Princeton in 1973, with an intervening four-year period in industry as a research chemist with Shell. During an unusually productive postdoctoral period with Lennard Wharton and Donald Levy at the University of Chicago, he pioneered what has become one of the most powerful techniques in chemical physics; supersonic beam laser spectroscopy. After coming to Rice University in 1976 he rose rapidly through the academic ranks, being named to the Gene and Norman Hackerman Chair in Chemistry in 1982. He was one of the founders of the Rice Quantum Institute in 1979, and served as the Chairman of this interdisciplinary Institute from 1986 to 1996. Since January 1990 Dr. Smalley has also been a Professor in the Department of Physics, and was appointed Director of the new Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology at Rice in 1996. In 1990 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences, and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1996. Dr. Smalley is widely known for the discovery and characterization of C60 (Buckminsterfullerene), a soccerball-shaped molecule that, together with other fullerenes such as C70, now constitutes the third elemental form of carbon (after graphite and diamond).

Mr. Jeffrey M. Smith currently serves as a senior advisor on science and technology policy issues in the Leadership offices of the United States Senate. From 2001 to 2003, he had a similar position in the Director’s Office of the National Science Foundation as a Senior Advisor for Legislative and Public Affairs. Previously, Smith served for six years in the White House as the principal aide to two Presidential Science Advisors, Dr. Neal Lane and Dr. Jack Gibbons. Prior to his work in the White House, he had a senior position with the Secretary of Energy and the Director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Additionally, he has spent a dozen years in the Legislative Branch, serving as both an Administrative Assistant, and as a Press Secretary, to national leaders in the House of Representatives and the United States Senate. Smith graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and attended the Georgetown University Law Center.

Dr. H. Guyford Stever, a scientist, engineer, educator, and administrator, has served universities, government and industry. As a CalTech graduate student, a member of the wartime MIT Radiation Lab and the OSRD London Mission, an Aeronautics and Astronautics professor and head of two MIT engineering departments, a member and later chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board and Chief Scientist of the Air Force, and a consultant to the United Aircraft Corporation and Space Technology Laboratories, he contributed professionally in aeronautical, missile, and spacecraft engineering, cosmic rays, electronics and radar, gas discharge and gas dynamics, compressible aerodynamics and two phase flow, science and engineering education, and science policy.
Dr. Stever's presidency of Carnegie Mellon University (1965-72) was marked by significant change and growth in the institution, including the merger of Carnegie Institute of Technology and Mellon Institute to from CMU, the establishment of a College of Humanities and Social Studies, the addition of the School of Urban and Public Affairs, the formation of a Department of Computer Science and a Statistics Department, and a Transportation Research Center.
In 1972, Dr. Stever became the Director of the NSF, where he strengthened NSF's highest priority mission as supporter of basic research, primarily conducted in universities by peer-reviewed principal investigators. As Science Advisor, after he helped convince President Ford to reestablish the White House science structure, Ford directed him to work with Vice Pres. Rockefeller, Congress, and OMB to that end. The 1976 S&T Act created the office of the Science and Technology Policy with the President's S&T Advisor as Director. So appointed, Stever put in place the White House OSTP in 1976.
In two decades since 1977, Stever established himself as an independent corporate board member, a non-profit organization trustee, and an S&T consultant.

Dr. Warren Morton Washington is the Head of the Climate Change Research Section in the Climate and Global Dynamics Division of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). He received a B.S. in Physics from Oregon State University in 1958. In 1960 he received a M.S. in Meteorology in 1960 and a Ph.D. in 1964 from Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Washington worked as a Research Assistant in the Department of Meteorology at Pennsylvania State University (1961-63). From 1963, Dr. Washington served as a Scientist for the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). From 1969-1971 Dr. Washington taught at University of Michigan, Department of Meteorology and Oceanography as an adjunct professor. In 1993, he became the Climate Division Director for the NCAR in Boulder, Colorado. Dr. Washington is an internationally recognized expert in atmospheric science and climate research specializing in computer modeling of the Earth's climate. In recent years he has served his science in a broad range of capacities. He was appointed to the National Science Board in 1994 and reappointed in 2000 (and is currently its chairman); in 1998 he was appointed to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Science Advisory Board; in 1999 he was elected by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Board of Trustees as a member of the corporation for a three-year term; in 2000 he was appointed a member of the Advanced Scientific Computing Advisory Committee by the U.S. Secretary of Energy; and in February of this year he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering "for pioneering the development of coupled climate models, their use on parallel supercomputing architectures, and their interpretation”.

Dr. Robert M. White was President of the National Academy of Engineering from 1983 to 1995. Prior to that, he was President of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR). Dr. White has served in scientific leadership positions for five U.S. Presidents. He was appointed Chief of the U.S. Weather Bureau and the first Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. His years of government service include U.S. Commissioner to the International Whaling Commission and the U.S. Permanent Representative to the World Meteorological Organization. He is credited with bringing about a revolution in the U.S. weather warning system with satellite and computer technology.
Before joining the government, he founded one of the first corporations devoted to environmental science and services. Dr. White was the Karl T. Compton Lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1995-96. He is a Senior Fellow at UCAR and at the H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics, and the Environment. Dr. White received a B.A. degree in geology from Harvard University and M.S. and Sc.D. degrees in meteorology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Dr. William A. Wulf is president of the National Academy of Engineering and vice chair of the National Research Council, the principal operating arm of the National Academies of Sciences and Engineering. He is on leave from the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, where he is AT&T Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Among his activities at the university are a complete revision of the undergraduate computer science curriculum, research on computer architecture and computer security, and an effort to assist humanities scholars exploit information technology. Dr. Wulf has had a distinguished professional career that includes serving as assistant director of the National Science Foundation; chair and chief executive officer of Tartan Laboratories Inc., Pittsburgh; and professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh. He is the author of more than 80 papers and technical reports, has written three books, and holds two U.S. patents.

John A. Young is retired president and chief executive officer of Hewlett-Packard Company. He holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Oregon State University and a master’s degree in business administration from Stanford University. In 1983, former Pres. Reagan appointed Young to be chairman of the President’s Commission on Industrial Competitiveness. In 1986, Young founded the Council on Competitiveness, where he served as chairman from 1986 to 1990,. He was also the founding chairman of the board of Smart Valley, Inc. Young was named co-chairman of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology in 1994, where he served until 2001. He also served as a member of the Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations with the Office of the United States Trade Representative. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. Young is a director of Affymetrix, Agere Systems Inc., Ciphergen Biosystems, Inc., ChevronTexaco Corp., Fluidigm Corp., Lucent Technologies, and Perlegen Sciences.