Pathways of Excellence Distinguished Lecture Series

A Florida State University forum on the quality of higher education

Dr. Neal Lane
Malcolm Gillis University Professor
Senior Fellow, James A Baker III Institute for Public Policy
Rice University

"Why science matters—a message for our future President"

October 6, 2008
4:00 PM Alumni Center Ballroom

Dr. Neal Lane is Malcolm Gillis University Professor and Senior Fellow of the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University in Houston, Texas. He was trained as a physicist at the University of Oklahoma. The bulk of his career was spent at Rice where he rose through the ranks from Assistant Professor to Provost of the university. Dr. Lane was Director of the National Science Foundation and member (ex officio) of the National Science Board, from October 1993 to August 1998. He subsequently served as Assistant to the President for Science and Technology and Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, from August 1998 to January 2001. Dr. Lane has written and lectured extensively in the areas of theoretical atomic and molecular physics as well as science and technology policy.

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