National Science Board to Meet

MEDIA ADVISORY November 5, 1997 PA/M 97-34

NATIONAL SCIENCE BOARD TO MEET

The National Science Board (NSB) will meet on Wednesday, November 12 through Friday, November 14, 1997 at National Science Foundation headquarters in Arlington, Virginia. Sessions open to the public include: Thursday, November 13, from 2:20 p.m.-5:45 p.m. and Friday, November 14 from 8:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m.

Open session agenda items for November 13 include:

2:20 p.m.-5:45 p.m. ∑ Minutes of the August and October, 1997 meetings ∑ Closed Session Agenda Items for February 1998 ∑ Chairman's Report, Director's Report, Reports from Committees ∑ Important Notice 91 ∑ NSB Report on Graduate and Postdoctoral Education ∑ Science and Engineering Indicators ∑ Working Paper: "Government Funding of Scientific Research" ∑ NSF Recompetition Policy

Open session agenda items for November 14 include:

8:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m. ∑ NSF Long Range Planning Preview ∑ Issues for Operating in Constrained Fiscal Environments ∑ NSB Occasional Paper "Publicly Funded Research"

A media availability with NSB Chairman Richard Zare and NSF Director Neal Lane will be held at 11:30 a.m. or immediately after the adjournment of the open session -- whichever comes first -- in Conference Room 1280 (near the north elevators, 12th floor).

For more information contact: Mary Hanson, (703) 306-1070, [email protected] (media) Jean Pomeroy, (703) 306-2000, [email protected] (non-media)