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The Washington Daybook - General News EventsAug 10, 2011 (FIND, Inc./Agence France-Presse via COMTEX) -- TOPIC/SUBJECT: hold a "Future Forum," to discuss the agency's role in advancing innovation, technology, science, engineering and education. AGENDA: Highlights: -- 8:30 a.m.: NASA Chief Technologist Robert Braun; NASA Chief Scientist Waleed Abdaleti; NASA Deputy Associate Administrator Laurie Leshin; and NASA Associate Administrator for Education Leland Melvin discuss "Innovation, Exploration and Inspiration and NASA's Future." -- 10 a.m.: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Chief Technologist Peter Hughes; NASA OCT Division Director Joseph Parrish; Jennifer Byrne, vice president of corporate engineering and technology at Lockheed Martin; Pat O'Shea, vice president of research at the University of Maryland; and Maryland Technology Enterprise Institute Director David Barbe discuss "Unleashing the Power of Technology and Creativity" -- 11:15 a.m.: Michelle Thaller, astrophysicist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; Craig Purdy, deputy director of NASA Wallops; Matt Mountain, director of the Space Telescope Science Institute; Tony Busalacchi, professor at UMD; and David Novak, operations officer at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Hydrometeorological Prediction Center -- 2:45 p.m.: Education Department Special Assistant for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Education Michael Lach; NASA Associate Administrator Leland Melvin; Mohammed Eltayeb of Frostburg University; and Mary Bowden, director of Graduate Studies at UMD discuss "Inspiration/Education: Building Idea Factories for the Future." -- 3:45 p.m.: NASA Chief Technologist Robert Braun delivers closing remarks DATE: August 11, 2011 LOCATION: The University of Maryland, Samuel Riggs IV Alumni Center, College Park, Md. Katherine Trinidad 202-358-1600 (NASA) Neil Tickner 301-405-4622 (UMD) |