WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation today released the witness list for the Science, Technology, and Innovation Subcommittee hearing on National Nanotechnology Initiative: Charting the Course for Reauthorization. The witnesses are listed below.

Nanotechnology has the potential to be the next great technological revolution. Currently, the federal investment, through the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI), is nearly $1.5 billion. This hearing will examine the five year period since the NNI was initially authorized in 2003 and explore issues the Committee should consider for the next reauthorization.

National Nanotechnology Initiative: Charting the Course for Reauthorization
Science, Technology, and Innovation Subcommittee
Date: Thursday, April 24, 2008
Time:  2:30 p.m.
Location:  Room 253, Russell Senate Office Building

The Honorable Richard M. Russell, Associate Director and Deputy Director for Technology, Executive Office of the President

Mr. Robert A. Robinson, Managing Director, Natural Resources and Environment Team, U.S. Government Accountability Office

Mr. Matthew M. Nordan, President, Lux Research Incorporated

Mr. David Rejeski, Director, Foresight and Governance Project and Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies, Woodrow Wilson Center

Dr. P. Lee Ferguson, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of South Carolina

Dr. Anita Goel, Nanobiosym Incorporated

Dr. Jim Heath, Director, NSB Cancer Center