The Honorable Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson has been instrumental in building concern over our national capacity for innovation and support for an adequate science and engineering workforce to national prominence and active debate.

The National Summit on Competitiveness: Investing in U.S. Innovation

December 6, 2005, in Washington, D.C. Dr. Jackson was an invited participant in this event.

National Academies

Dr. Jackson is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and serves on the National Academies Division on Earth and Life Studies (DELS).

• Rising Above the Gathering Storm: Energizing and Employing America for a Brighter Economic Future  Dr. Jackson was a member of the National Academies Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy (COSPUP), a joint committee of the three honorific academies — the national Academy of Sciences (NAS), the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), and the Institute of medicine (IOM).
  
  
• Envisioning A 21st Century Science and Engineering Workforce for the United States, by Shirley Ann Jackson, Ph.D. Report to the Government-University- Industry Research Roundtable 2003 Dr. Jackson was a member of the Roundtable Council of the National Academy of Sciences from 1999-2005.

Council on Competitiveness

Dr. Jackson is a member of the Executive Committee of the Council on Competitiveness.

• BEST: Building Engineering and Science Talent
  Dr. Jackson wrote Quiet Crisis: Falling Short in Producing American Scientific and Technical Talent (PDF file), published by BEST, and chaired the Higher Education Blue Ribbon Panel which drafted the report A Bridge for All: Higher Education Design Principles to Broaden Participation in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. (PDF file)
  
  
• National Innovation Initiative: Innovate America.

Business Roundtable

• Tapping America’s Potential, released July 27, 2005.
  
  
• Dr. Jackson addressed the Business Roundtable in a speech, Sustaining our National Capacity for Discovery and Innovation, on Wednesday, June 16, 2004.

American Association for the Advancement of Science

• Dr. Jackson gave The 2003 William D. Carey Lecture Standing on the Knife-Edge: The Leadership Imperative, Washington, D.C. (4/10/2003) and was the AAAS American Association for the Advancement of Science 2004 President and 2005 Chairman of the Board.
  
  
• In February 2004, when she assumed its Presidency, she addressed the AAAS in The Perfect Storm: A Weather Forecast  Seattle, Washington.
  
  
• On December 9, the AAAS addressed a letter to President Bush on the nation’s innovative capacity and its need to invest in research and educating scientists and engineers.

Other Useful Links:

The Science Coalition

U.S. Commission on National Security- Hart Rudman Commission

• The Phase III report is the most important: Road Map for National Security: Imperative for Change (PDF file) This is one of the earliest mentions of the seriousness of the issue — 2001 pre-9/11.

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