2007-2008 Seminars and Site Visits

DATE	EVENT/SPEAKER	TOPIC
09/10/07	ComSci Orientation	Orientation/Class Photos
09/20/07	Guest Speaker: William B. Bonvillian, Director, MIT Washington Office Guest Speaker: Jim Turner, Chief Counsel, House Committee on Science and Technology	"The Economic and Policy Context of US Innovation Organization" (Bonvillian) "The Next Innovation Revolution: Laying the Groundwork for the U.S." (Turner)
09/27/07	Kick Off Luncheon Old Ebbitt Grill, 675 15th Street, NW, Washington, D.C. 20005 11:30 am - 1:30 pm Guest Speaker: Nancy Kingsbury, Managing Director, Applied Research and Methods, Government Accountability Office	Now: Technology Issues from a Legislative Branch Perspective Then: Reflections of a Former ComSci Fellow
10/04/07	Speaker/Committee Meetings Guest Speaker: Dr. Mark E. Rey Under Secretary for Resources and the Environment, USDA	"Forest Service and Natural Resource Conservation Services"
10/11/07	Federal Holiday Week - No Meeting
10/18/07	Guest Speaker: Dr. Gregory Tassey Senior Economist National Institute of Standards and Technology	"Technology-Based Economic Growth: The Policy Challenges"
10/25/07	Guest Speaker: Michael Holland Senior Program Examiner, Energy Branch OMB	“Buying Science Wholesale”
11/01/07	Guest Speaker: Gary Jones Federal Laboratory Consortium Speaker/Committee Meetings/Article Discussion	"Technology Transfer"
11/08/07	Site Visit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD	Site Visit
11/15/07	Federal Holiday Week - No Meeting
11/22/07	Federal Holiday Week - No Meeting
11/29/07	Field Trip Presentation/Discussion/Vote Guest Speaker: Karen S. Evans Administrator of E-Government and Information Technology, OMB	"E-Government and IT"
12/06/07	Speaker/Committee Meetings/Article Discussion Guest Speaker: David Muller Senior Policy Advisor, Science and Innovation, British Embassy	"UK Science Policy and International Outreach"
12/13/07	Site Visit: NIST Gaithersburg, MD	Site Visit
12/20/07	Guest Speaker: Dr. Caroline S. Wagner Center for International Science and Technology Policy, George Washington University	"The New Invisible College: Understanding International Collaboration in Science"
12/27/07	Federal Holiday Week - No Meeting
01/03/08	Federal Holiday Week - No Meeting
01/10/08	Speaker/Committee Meetings/Article Discussion Guest Speaker: Dr. Anthony Tether Director, DARPA, 10:00 - 11:00 AM Guest Speaker: Dr. Norman Neureiter Director, Center for Science, Technology, and Security Policy, AAAS, 11:30 am - 1:00 pm	Tether: "An Overview of DARPA" Neureiter: "International Scientific and Technical Cooperation and U.S. Foreign Policy"
01/17/08	Site visit: USPTO Alexandria, VA	Site Visit
01/24/08	Federal Holiday Week - No Meeting
01/31/08	Guest Speaker: Dr. John Marburger Director, Office of Science and Technology Policy, Executive Office of the President	"Overview of OSTP"
02/07/08	Speaker/Committee Meetings/Article Discussion Rick Weiss Staff Writer, The Washington Post	"71 is an Even Number, and Other Conundrums of Covering Science in Washington"
02/14/08	Guest Speaker: David Rejeski Director, Center for Emerging Nanotechnologies Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars 9:30 am - 11:00 am ERA-Link Meeting with Guest Speaker: EU Commissioner Janez Potocnik Embassy of Austria, followed by buffet lunch reception Noon - 2:00 pm	"Feynman, Voltaire and Beckett on Nanotechnology"
02/21/08	Federal Holiday Week - No Meeting
02/28/08	Site Visit: FBI Laboratory Quantico, VA	Site Visit
03/06/08	Group Project Work
03/13/08	Congressional Insight Seminar - National Association of Manufacturers
03/20/08	Site Visit: NIH site visit Bethesda, MD	Site Visit
03/27/08	Speaker/Capitol Hill Week Discussion Guest Speaker: Dr. Habiba Gitay The World Bank White House Tour 12:30 pm	“Climate Change: Will There Be Losers And Winners?”
3/31- 4/4/08	Capitol Hill Week (March 31-April 4, 2008) See separate Detailed Schedule
04/10/08	Speaker/Committee Meetings/Article Discussion Guest Speaker: Dr. F. Daniel Davis Executive Director President's Council on Bioethics Supreme Court Lecture (2:30 pm) followed by meeting with William Suter, Clerk of the Court	“Biomedicine, Biotechnology, & Bioethics Their Significance for Our Shared Humanity”
04/17/08	Site Visit: NOAA National Satellite Operations Facility (NSOF) Suitland, MD	Site Visit
04/24/08	Speaker/Field Trip Discussion Guest Speaker: John B. Stephenson Managing Director, Natural Resources and the Environment, GAO Guest Speaker: Samuel Bodman Secretary of Energy, Noon - 1:00 pm	“GAO and the Environment” (Stephenson)  “Overview of the Department of Energy” (Bodman)
05/01/08	Group Project Work Day
05/5/08 - 05/09/08	Policy Study Field Trip (May 5 -May 9, 2008) See separate detailed schedule
05/15/08	Speaker/Field Trip De-brief Guest Speaker: Norman Augustine CEO and Chair (ret.) Lockheed Martin Chair, "Rising Above the Gathering Storm"	"Can America Compete…Can I Compete"
05/22/08	Guest Speaker: Thomas N. Cooley Chief Financial Officer and Director Office of Budget, Finance and Award Administration National Science Foundation	“NSF: Advancing Discovery, Innovation, and Education”
05/29/08	Federal Holiday Week - No Meeting
06/05/08	Speaker/Committee Meetings/Article Discussion Guest Speaker: Dr. Ralph J. Cicerone President, National Academy of Sciences	"The National Academy of Sciences"
06/12/08	Guest Speaker: Dr. Mark Lewis Chief Scientist, Unitied States Air Force	"Science and Technology Challenges Facing the U.S. Air Force."
06/19/08	BIS Group Project Presentation 9:45 am - 11:00 am Site Visit and Tour: US Capitol and Capitol Visitor Center (under construction) 1:00 pm - 3:30 pm	Site Visit
06/26/08	Graduation Guest Speaker: Dr. Kathie Olsen Deputy Director, National Science Foundation (Secretary's Conference and Diplomatic Rooms)	"Hitting the High Notes of Leadership"

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