Meeting 11

Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences
March 29, 2004 - March 30, 2004
Keck Center
500 5th Street, NW
Washington D.C. 20001

Agenda:

MARCH 29, 2004 KECK CENTER ROOM 101

8:30 Breakfast in the meeting room

9:00 Welcome

Anne Petersen, Chair, BBCSS
Richard Atkinson, Chair, Division Committee for the Behavioral and Social
Sciences and Education

9:15 Presentation

Behavioral interventions? How should they be conducted?
Richard Suzman, National Institute on Aging

10:15 AM Break

10:30 Report from the Board on Children, Youth and Families

Rosemary Chalk, Director

11:15 Presentation

Michael Feuer, Executive Director, DBASSE, Evidence Initiative

12:00 Lunch in the meeting room

1:00 BBCSS projects released and their impact

Health and Safety Needs of Older Workers

Christine Hartel
Technology for Adaptive Aging

Susan Van Hemel, study director
New Treatments for Addiction: Behavioral, Ethical, Legal and Social Questions

Tracy Myers, study director
Evaluating Military Advertising and Recruiting

Anne Mavor, study director

5:00 Adjourn

MARCH 30, 2004 KECK CENTER ROOM 101

All Day Closed Session

Closed Session Summary Posted After the Meeting

The following committee members were present at the closed sessions of the meeting:

Anne Petersen
Eugene Emory
Rochel Gelman
Anthony Jackson
Peter Lennie
Marcia Linn
Elissa Newport
Michael Rutter
Arnold Sameroff
William Yost

The following topics were discussed in the closed sessions:

Review of minutes from September 2003 meeting
Discussion of BBCSS prospective projects and potential project committee
members
Plan new Board initiatives: next workshops and papers

The following materials (written documents) were made available to the committee in the closed sessions:

Minutes from the last board meeting
Prospectuses for upcoming projects under the board