Bush, Obama Science & Technology Advisers to Speak at STEM Enterprise Workshop

August 28, 2009

WASHINGTON, Aug. 28 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Members of the Bush and Obama science teams probably don't get together too often, but senior officials from both administrations will share the stage at an IEEE-USA event in October.

Dr. John Marburger, who served as science adviser to former President George W. Bush, will be the keynote speaker at "STEM Enterprise: Measures for Innovation and Competitiveness," an event designed to measure the impact and effectiveness of all federal, state, private and academic money spent on research and development in the STEM -- science, technology, engineering and math -- enterprise. Work in this area serves as the driving force for economic and social advancement in the United States and worldwide. Marburger is now a university professor of physics and electrical engineering at Stony Brook (N.Y.) University, where he served as president from 1980-84.

Marburger will be followed by Kei Koizumi, assistant director for federal research and development at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Koizumi has a long and distinguished record as an expert on federal R&D expenditures. Prior to joining the Obama administration, he was director of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Research and Development Budget and Policy Program.

The workshop will be at George Washington University on 21 October from 8 a.m. to 5:15 p.m. Registration is $150 ($100 for IEEE and sponsoring societies members) and includes continental breakfast, lunch and coffee breaks. For more information, see http://www.ieeeusa.org/calendar/conferences/stem/default.asp.

Other invited speakers include Dr. Ron Hira, assistant professor of public policy, Rochester Institute of Technology; Dr. Diana Hicks, chair, school of public policy, Georgia Institute of Technology; Dr. James Hosek, director, Forces and Resources Policy Center, RAND National Security Research Division; Richard Ellis, president, Ellis Research Services, Carlisle, Pa.; Dr. Katy Borner, Victor H. Yngve professor of information science, Indiana University; and Ann Kushmerick, manager, Global Sales Support (Research Evaluation and Bibliometric Data) at Thomson Reuters.

IEEE-USA advances the public good and promotes the careers and public policy interests of more than 210,000 engineers, scientists and allied professionals who are U.S. members of IEEE. IEEE-USA is part of IEEE, the world's largest technical professional society with 375,000 members in 160 countries. See http://www.ieeeusa.org.

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