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THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES
COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE, ENGINEERING, AND PUBLIC POLICY
PLANNING MEETING ON THE ROLE OF STATE FUNDING OF RESEARCH
Friday, July 13, 2001
NAS Lecture Room
Agenda
8:30 Registration
9:00 Greeting and Overview of Purpose of Meeting
Paul E. Torgersen, President Emeritus, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, and Member, COSEPUP
9:10 Overview of State Funding of Research Issues. Panel members will discuss any of the following four questions:
- Why do you think states are funding research?
- What are state's strategies for doing so?
- How are states leveraging these investments?
- How are states evaluating the outcomes of these investments?
Julia Melkers, Associate Professor, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University
Daniel Berglund, President, State Science and Technology Institute Irwin Feller, Director, Institute for Policy Research and Evaluation, The Pennsylvania State University
Walter H. Plosila, Vice President, Public Technology Management, Battelle Memorial Institute
10:15 Economic Analysis of State Funding of Research. An overview of recent economic analysis of state funding of research.
David Breneman, Dean, Curry School of Education, University of Virginia
10:30 Break
10:45 Perspectives from the States. Panel members will discuss any of the following four questions:
- Why is your state funding research?
- What are your state's strategies for doing so?
- How is your state leveraging these investments?
- How, if at all, is your state evaluating the outcomes of these investments?
Russell W. Bessette (New York), Executive Director, New York State Office of Science, Technology, and Academic Research
William A. Sibley (Oklahoma), President, Oklahoma Center for the Advancement of Science and Technology
Michael Cassidy (Georgia), President, Georgia Research Alliance
Wimberly C. Royster (Kentucky), Director, Scientific Research and Policy, and Kentucky Statewide EPSCoR
Richard Bendis (Kansas), President and CEO, Kansas Technology Enterprise Corporation
Frank E. Samuel, Jr. (Ohio), Science and Technology Advisor to the Governor of Ohio
Suzanne Winters (Utah), State Science Advisor, State of Utah
Kerri-Ann Jones (Maine), Statewide EPSCoR Director, Maine Science & Technology Foundation
Phyllis Kahn (Minnesota), State Representative, State of Minnesota House of Representatives
Timothy Mc Nulty (Pennsylvania), Deputy Chief of Staff for Technology Initiatives, the Office of the Governor of Pennsylvania
12:00 Perspectives from the Federal Agencies. Panel members will discuss any of the following four questions:
- What programs does your agency have to encourage state funding of research?
- What is your agency's strategy to encourage states to do so?
- To what degree are the states that you work with leveraging federal-state investments with non-federal funds?
- Does your agency require states to evaluate the outcomes of these programs? If so, how do they do so? What are the outcomes of your agency's program(s)?
Matesh N. Varma, Program Manager, EPSCoR, Department of Energy
W. Fred Taylor, Health Scientist Administrator, National Center for Research Resources, National Institutes of Health
George Cooper, Deputy Administrator Partnerships, US Department of Agriculture
E. Julius Dasch, Manager, Space Grant and EPSCoR Programs, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Leo Young, Special Assignee to the Office of the Director of Research, US Department of Defense
Douglas Devereaux, Director of the Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Technology, US Department of Commerce
Charles T. Mitchell & William G. Stelz, Manager(s), EPSCoR Programs, Environmental Protection Agency
12:45 Lunch Break
1:15 Roundtable Discussion
3:00 Adjourn 
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