1995 Sigma Xi Forum Program

Vannevar Bush II: Science for the 21st Century
March 2-3, 1995
Research Triangle Park, North Carolina

Thursday, March 2

Science and Society in the Decades Ahead
Frank Press, former President, National Academy of Sciences

Bohr, Pasteur, and Edison: Models for Science
Donald Stokes, University Professor of Politics and Public Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University

Federal Support of Science
Neal Lane, Director, National Science Foundation

New Partnerships Between Government and Industry
Graham R. Mitchell, Assistant Director for Technology Policy, U.S. Department of Commerce

Health Science Research in the 21st Century
Kenneth Shine, President, Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences

Reinventing the Research University
Kumar Patel, President, Sigma Xi, and Vice Chancellor of Research Programs, University of California, Los Angeles

Breakout Groups

1. Must Science be Catastrophe Driven?
2. Science Illiteracy
3. Experience with Government-Industry Programs
4. Basic Research and American Democracy: Elitism and Egalitarianism
5. Science and Engineering Indicators
6. Graduate and Medical Education
7. What Can We Learn from Experience in Other Countries?
8. The Need for Social Science Research

McGovern Science & Society Lecture
Sidney D. Drell, Professor and Deputy Director, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Stanford University

Friday, March 3

How Graduate Education Must be Changed
Phillip Griffiths, Director, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University and Chair, National Academy of Sciences study on graduate education

A Washington Perspective
Martha A. Krebs, Director, Office of Energy Research U.S. Department of Energy

What Can Social Science Tell Us About Solving Societal Ills?
Neil J. Smelser, Director, Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences

Should the National Laboratories Exist in 2005?
Katherine Gillman, Special Assistant for Defense Conversion Office of Science and Technology Policy

How Should Government Decide Who Gets the Money?
Lewis M. Branscomb, Director, Science, Technology, and Public Policy John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, and former Chief Scientist, IBM

Breakout Groups (see above)

Reports from Breakout Groups