Creation Of a Joint Global Change Research Institute in College Park

DOE and the University of Maryland Will Announce the Creation Of a Joint Global Change Research Institute in College Park

WHAT:

The U.S. Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) and the University of Maryland, two institutions with expertise in the scientific and policy issues of global climate change, will hold a press conference to announce the creation of a Joint Global Change Research Institute in College Park. The new institute will investigate the scientific, social and economic implications of climate change, both nationally and globally.

WHO:

Featured at the news conference are:

• Gerald Stokes--Stokes is director of the new joint institute and the former associate laboratory director of PNNL.

• William Destler-- Destler is the University of Maryland's vice president for research and dean of its graduate school.

• Ari Patrinos--Patrinos is with the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science. He oversees a variety of research activities, including the DOE global environmental change program.

• Robert McNamara--McNamara was secretary of defense under presidents Kennedy and Johnson. He is a former president of both the World Bank and Ford Motor Company; and has served on several committees that have advised PNNL's Global Change Research Program over the past decade.

WHEN:

Monday, March 12, 2001. The news conference will begin at 11 a.m. Reporters are invited to join us for the luncheon that follows.

WHERE:

The American Center for Physics, One Physics Ellipse, College Park, Md. (For directions go to: http://www.ACP.org/map.html.

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