Welcome from PCAST Co-Chairs

- John Holdren, Assistant to the President for Science and Technology; Director, Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP); Co-Chair, PCAST
- Harold Varmus, Co-Chair, PCAST
- Eric Lander, Co-Chair, PCAST
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International Food Security

Robert Paarlberg, Betty Freyhof Johnson Class of 1944 Professor of Political Science at Wellesley College and Associate at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University
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Food and Agriculture Research

Roger Beachy, Director, National Institute of Food and Agriculture, Research, Education and Economics, United States Department of Agriculture
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Overview of National Science Board Activities Related to PCAST Activities

- Steven C. Beering, NSB Chair, President Emeritus, Purdue University
- Louis J. Lanzerotti, Distinguished Research Professor of Physics, Center for Solar- Terrestrial Research, New Jersey Institute of Technology
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Public Comment


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PCAST Review of the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) Program Report

Maxine Savitz and Ed Penhoet, Co-Chairs
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