Will Tiny Technology Drive the Next Industrial Revolution?
NCSL Annual Meeting - Nashville, Tennessee
Wednesday, August 16, 2006
2:45 pm – 4:15 pm
Senator Karin Brownlee
Kansas
Karin Brownlee serves Kansas Senate District 23. She was elected to her first term in the Kansas Legislature in 1997. She serves as Chair of the Commerce Committee and as a member of three joint committees: Administrative Rules & Regulations, Corrections & Juvenile Justice Oversight, and Economic Development. She also serves on Federal & State Affairs, Financial Institutions & Insurance, and Interstate Cooperation. She is a co-author of the Kansas Economic Growth Act of 2004. Senator Brownlee has a B.S. in microbiology from Kansas State University.
Edward Cupoli, Ph.D.
Head, Nanoeconomics Constellation
College of Nanoscale Science & Engineering
University of Albany, State University of New York (SUNY)
New York
Dr. Cupoli serves as the Head of the Nanoeconomics Constellation at the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering at the University at Albany and is a professor of Nanoeconomics. His areas of interest include Economics of Nanotechnology, Economic Forecasting, and Policy Analysis. Dr. Cupoli’s current research concentrates on the economic implications and economic forecasting of nanotechnology as well as evaluating the competitive position of the United States in the world economy. He is deeply involved in legislative efforts including: initiating the Economic Update publication, which has received two national awards, advising on legislation to facilitate deregulation of the electric energy industry, and helping to create the Economic Information and Research Function in New York. He received a Ph.D. in economics from Syracuse University in 1987.
James B. Roberto, Ph. D.
Deputy Director of Science and Technology
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
Tennessee
Dr. Roberto oversees one of the nation’s largest research and development programs, with annual expenditures of $1 billion in materials and physical sciences, energy and engineering sciences, computational sciences, life and environmental sciences, neutron sciences, and national security. Dr. Roberto joined ORNL in 1974 after earning a B.S. in aeronautics and astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and a Ph.D. in applied physics from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. He has served on three National Research Council (NRC) Committees, most recently as Vice-Chair of the NRC study on Condensed-Matter and Materials Physics. He has testified before Congress on nanotechnology and chaired numerous national and international conferences, including the Department of Energy’s NanoSummit in 2004. Prior to his present appointment, he served as Oak Ridge Nation Laboratory’s associate laboratory director for physical sciences from 1999 to 2004. In this capacity, he led initiatives resulting in major scientific capability upgrades to the High Flux Isotope Reactor and the establishment of the $65 million Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, the Department of Energy’s first nanoscale science research center.
E. Clayton Teague, Ph. D.
Director
National Nanotechnology Coordination Office
Virginia
Since 2003 Clayton Teague has been the Director of the National Nanotechnology Coordination Office (NNCO). Prior to that, Dr. Teague was Chief of the Manufacturing Metrology Division in the Manufacturing Engineering Laboratory of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Dr. Teague is a member of the American Society for Precision Engineering, where he has served twice as the Society’s President. Dr. Teague is currently on the Editorial Board of Nanotechnology. He received a B.S. and M.S. in physics from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in physics from the University of North Texas.
Lisa Wallmeyer, J. D.
Executive Director
Joint Commission on Technology and Science
Virginia
Lisa Wallmeyer serves as the executive director of the Virginia Joint Commission on Technology and Science, a 12-member legislative commission to study and develop public policy related to science and technology in the Commonwealth. When the General Assembly is in session, she also serves as counsel to the House Committee on Militia, Police, and Public Safety and the Senate Finance Committee. Ms. Wallmeyer graduated from Washington and Lee University, and received a law degree and a master's degree in mass communications from the University of Florida.
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