THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of Science and Technology Policy

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For Immediate Release

June 2, 1998

  PRESIDENT'S COMMITTEE OF ADVISORS ON SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY White House Conference Center 726 Jackson Place, N.W. June 9, 1998

PUBLIC AGENDA
 

10:00 a.m. Public Session—Truman Room, 3rd Floor
  Welcome and Introductions
   Kerri-Ann Jones, Acting Director, OSTP
   John Young, Co-Chair, PCAST

10:15 a.m. Session on International Issues
  10:15 a.m. John P. Boright, Director, Office of International
     Affairs, National Academy of Sciences/NRC
  10:45 a.m. Q&A—Wendy Sherman, Counselor, Office of the
     Secretary, U.S. Department of State
  11:00 a.m. PCAST Discussion of Potential Roles

11:30 a.m. Session on Public Understanding of Science and Technology
  11:30 a.m. Robert G. Henson, Jr., Manager of Education Initiative,
     The Dow Chemical Company
  11:45 a.m. Bruce Alberts, President, National Academy of Sciences
  12:00 Noon Eric Mazur, Gordon McKay Professor of Applied
     Physics and Professor of Physics, Harvard
     University
  12:15 p.m. Q&A Session
  12:40 p.m. PCAST Discussion of Potential Roles

  1:00 p.m. Public Comment

  1:15 p.m. Adjourn

  2:30 p.m. Discussion with Rep. Vernon J. Ehlers (R-MI)

  3:30 p.m. Adjourn Public Session

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