1:30-1:45 pm

Introduction and Welcome – Auditorium, ORCAS

• Juan M. Sanchez, Ph.D., Chair, ORAU Council of Sponsoring Institutions
• James N. Siedow, Ph.D., Chair, ORAU Board of Directors
• J. Paul Gilman, Ph.D., Director, ORCAS
  
  

National Labs and Universities (Pre-meeting reading about the national labs in PDF format)

Introduction by Ronald D. Townsend, Ph.D., President, Oak Ridge Associated Universities

• Jeff Wadsworth, Ph.D., Executive Vice President for Laboratory Operations, Battelle
  Presentation (PDF)
  

Session I. Investing in the Principal Investigator: Does DOE Funding Make a Difference?

Keynote: John Petersen, Ph.D., President, University of Tennessee System

Discussants:

• Robert T. McGrath, Ph.D., Senior Vice President for Research, The Ohio State University
• Susan M. Pfiffner, Ph.D.,  Research Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville and the Center for Environmental Biotechnology (CEB)

DOE and Universities

Introduction by  Ronald D. Townsend, Ph.D., President, Oak Ridge Associated Universities

• Bill Valdez, Director, Workforce Development for Teachers and Scientists,
  U.S. Department of Energy
  Presentation (PDF)

High Performance Computing at ORNL

• Thomas Zacharia, Ph.D., Associate Laboratory Director for Computing and Computational Science and Vice President for Science and Technology, University of Tennessee
  Presentation (PDF)
• Ronald D. Townsend, Ph.D., President, Oak Ridge Associated Universities
  Presentation (PDF)
  

Wednesday, March 5, 2007

Breakfast and ORAU Council Business

• Juan M. Sanchez, Ph.D., Chair, ORAU Council of Sponsoring Institutions
• Ronald D. Townsend, Ph.D., President, ORAU
  Presentation (PDF)
• John C. Nemeth, Ph.D., Vice President, Partnership Development, ORAU
  Presentation (PDF)
  

DOE Labs and the University:  Does Collaboration Matter?

Keynote: Thom Mason, Ph.D., Director, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Presentation (PDF)

Discussants:

• Juan M. Sanchez, Ph.D., Vice President for Research, University of Texas-Austin
• Raymond E. Fornes, Ph.D., Associate Dean, North Carolina State University
  Presentation (PDF)
• Shaik Jeelani, Ph.D., Vice President for Research and Sponsored Programs, Tuskegee University

Break

Session II. Investing in “Big” Science

Keynote: Hermann A. Grunder, Ph.D., Director Emeritus Argonne and Jefferson Lab
Presentation (PDF)

Discussants:

• Gregory S. Boebinger, Ph.D, Director, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Florida State University, University of Florida, Los Alamos National Laboratory
  Presentation (PDF)
• Allison Campbell, Ph.D., Director, William R. Wiley Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
  
  

Session III. Investing in Workforce Development: Time for a change?

Keynote: Bill Valdez, Director, Workforce Development for Teachers and Scientists,
U.S. Department of Energy
Presentation (PDF)

Discussants:

• Wendy R. Cieslak, Ph.D., Senior Manager, Science, Technology and Engineering Strategic Initiatives, Sandia National Laboratories
  Presentation (PDF)
• Leigh Abts, Ph.D., Research Associate Professor, College of Education, University of Maryland
  Presentation (PDF)