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CONTACT: W. Ross Ellington, (850) 645-6900; <wellington@admin.fsu.edu> Oct. 1, 2008 FORMER NSF DIRECTOR NEAL LANE TO DISCUSS ‘WHY SCIENCE MATTERS: A MESSAGE FOR OUR FUTURE PRESIDENT’ Physicist, college administrator and former National Science Foundation Director Neal Lane is scheduled to come to Tallahassee to speak as part of Florida State University’s Pathways of Excellence Distinguished Lecture Series. The topic of his lecture will be “Why Science Matters: A Message for Our Future President.” The lecture will take place: MONDAY, OCT. 6 Lane is the Malcolm Gillis University Professor and a senior fellow of the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University in Houston. 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. Lane was director of the National Science Foundation and a 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. He also has written and lectured extensively in the areas of theoretical atomic and molecular physics, as well as science and technology policy. # # # |