My Career: Science, Research, Policy, and Ethics
National Science Foundation
From 2000-2003, I was the Director of the Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences (BCS) at the National Science Foundation (NSF), then located in Arlington, Virginia (now in Alexandria). I was responsible for a wide range of fields including: Archaeology; Developmental and Learning Sciences; Geography and Regional Sciences; Linguistics; Perception, Action and Cognition; Physical Anthropology, and Social Psychology. My responsibilities included signing off on all awards and declines of proposals. While at the NSF, I helped launch the Cognitive Neuroscience, Human Origins (HOMINID), Documenting Endangered Languages, and other programs, was involved with Science and Technology Centers and Science of Learning programs, was part of the NBIC convergence (Nanotechnology, Biotechnology, Information technology and Cognitive science) activities, and was the first chair of the Human and Social Dynamics priority area. I was also heavily involved with ethical issues related to the regulation of research with human subjects and issues connecting with the ethics of technology, under the auspices of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) during the Bill Clinton and George W. Bush administrations.
I returned to the NSF during the second term of the Obama Administration to serve as a Senior Advisor in the Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE), and later as Senior Advisor at NSF.
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My Career: Science, Research, Policy, and Ethics
Ethical Issues Related to Research and Technology
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