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Morehouse President Walter Massey appointed to President Bush's
COUNCIL ON SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
 

ATLANTA, December 12, 2001-President George W. Bush today appointed Dr. Walter E. Massey, President of Morehouse College, to his Presidential Committee on Science and Technology. President Bush made the announcement this afternoon in the Roosevelt Room of the White House.

Dr. Massey is one of 24 members of the board named from organizations across the country.

The President has asked the Council to address four specific issues:

  • The Science and Technology of Combating Terrorism;
  • Improving Energy Efficiency;
  • Federal investment in Science and Technology and its Economic Benefits; and
  • Infrastructure for the 21st Century

Also appointed to the board today was Dr. G. Wayne Clough, President of the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Dr. Massey is the former director of the National Science Foundation, a position to which he was appointed by former President George Bush. The Foundation is the government's lead agency for support of research and education in mathematics, science and engineering.

The panel will be co-chaired by John H. Marbuger, III, the Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and E. Floyd Kvamme, a partner in the high tech venture capital firm of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.

The Council met for the first time today in the White House Conference Center before meeting with President Bush at 3:00 p.m.

The full roster of the council is as follows:

Charles, J. Arntzen
Chair, Department of Plant Biology
Arizona State University
 Michael S. Dell
Chairman & CEO
Dell Computer Corporation
Norman R. Augustine
Former CEO
Lockheed Martin Corporation		 Raul J. Fernandez
Chairman & CEO
Dimension Data of North America
M. Kathleen Behrens
Managing Director
Robertson Stephens & Co.
 Marye Anne Fox
Chancellor
North Carolina State University
Eric Bloch
Corporate R&D Management Consultant
The Washington Advisory Group
 Martha Gilliland
Chancellor
University of Missouri-Kansas City
Ralph Gomory
President
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
 E. Kenneth Nwabueze
CEO
SageMetrics
Bernadine Healy
President & CEO
The American Red Cross		 Steven G. Papermaster
Chairman
Powershift Group
Rober J. Herbold
Executive Vice President
Microsoft Corporation 		Luis M. Proenza
President
University of Akron
Barbara Kilberg
President
Northern Virginia Technology Council
 George Scalise
President
Semiconductor Industry Association
Walter E. Massey
President
Morehouse College		 Charles M. Vest
President
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Gordon E. Moore
Chairmain Emeritus
Intel Corporation

For additional information, please check the White House Press Office at http://www.whitehouse.gov/index2.html. or the Georgia Tech web site at www.gatech.edu.

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