Rising Above The Gathering Storm: Energizing and Employing America for a Brighter Economic Future http://books.nap.edu/catalog/11463.html,, _. - \, '~j~~ COMMITIEE ON PROSPERING IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY OF THE 21ST CENTURY NORMAN R. AUGUSTINE (Chair), Retired Chairman and CEO, Lockheed Martin Corporation, Bethesda, MD CRAIG R. BARRETI, Chairman of the Board, Intel Corporation, Chandler, AZ GAIL CASSELL, Vice President, Scientific Affairs, and Distinguished Lilly Research Scholar for Infectious Diseases, Eli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis, IN STEVEN CHU, Director, E. O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA ROBERT M. GATES, President, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX NANCY S. GRASMICK, Maryland State Superintendent of Schools, Baltimore, MD CHARLES O. HOLLIDAY, JR., Chairman of the Board and CEO, DuPont Company, Wilmington, DE SHIRLEY ANN JACKSON, President, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY ANITA K. JONES, Lawrence R. Quarles Professor of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA JOSHUA LEDERBERG, Sackler Foundation Scholar, Rockefeller University, New York, NY RICHARD LEVIN, President, Yale University, New Haven, CT C. D. (DAN) MOTE, JR., President, University of Maryland, College Park, MD CHERRY MURRAY, Deputy Director for Science and Technology, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA PETER O'DONNELL, JR., President, O'Donnell Foundation, Dallas, TX LEE R. RAYMOND, Chairman and CEO, Exxon Mobil Corporation, Irving, TX ROBERT C. RICHARDSON, F. R. Newman Professor of Physics and Vice Provost for Research, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY P. ROY VAGELOS, Retired Chairman and CEO, Merck, Whitehouse Station, NJ CHARLES M. VEST, President Emeritus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA GEORGE M. WHITESIDES, Woodford L. & Ann A. Flowers University Professor, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA RICHARD N. ZARE, Marguerite Blake Wilbur Professor in Natural Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA iv Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. This executive summary plus thousands more available at http://www.nap.edu Rising Above The Gathering Storm: Energizing and Employing America for a Brighter Economic Future http://books.nap.edu/catalog/11463.html COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE, ENGINEERING, AND PUBLIC POLICY GEORGE M. WHITESIDES (Chair), Woodford L. & Ann A. Flowers University Professor, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA RALPH J. CICERONE (Ex officio), President, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC UMA CHOWDHRY, Vice President, Central Research and Development, DuPont Company, Wilmington, DE R. JAMES COOK, Interim Dean, College of Agriculture and Home Economics, Washington State University, Pullman, WA HAILE DEBAS, Executive Director, Global Health Sciences, and Maurice Galante Distinguished Professor of Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, CA HARVEY FINEBERG (Ex officio), President, Institute of Medicine, Washington, DC MARYE ANNE FOX (Ex officio), Chancellor, University of California, San Diego, CA ELSA GARMIRE, Professor, School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH M. R. C. GREENWOOD (Ex officio), Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, University of California, Oakland, CA NANCY HOPKINS, Amgen Professor of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA WILLIAM H. JOYCE (Ex officio), Chairman and CEO, Nako, Naperville, IL MARY-CLAIRE KING, American Cancer Society Professor of Medicine and Genetics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA W. CARL LINEBERGER, Professor of Chemistry, Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO RICHARD A. MESERVE, President, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington, DC ROBERT M. NEREM, Parker H. Petit Professor and Director, Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA LAWRENCE T. PAPAY, Retired Sector Vice President for Integrated Solu­ tions, Science Applications International Corporation, San Diego, CA ANNE PETERSEN, Senior Vice President, Programs, W. K. Kellogg Foundation, Battle Creek, MI CECIL PICKETT, President, Schering-Plough Research Institute, Kenilworth, NJ EDWARD H. SHORTLIFFE, Professor and Chair, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY vi Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. 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