"We always want to do whatever we can to enhance the safety and security of occupants in buildings," said Marolyn Davenport, senior vice president of the Real Estate Board of New York and a member of the executive committee of the task force.
He contributed to the gender and culture group developing the original Outline for Cultural Formulation (OCF) for the DSM-IV, and he has played a key role on the gender and culture committee of the task force in motivating and guiding international trials of the Cultural Formulation Interview (CFI) for DSM-5.
In 1962, a report by the US National Academy of Sciences recommended the development of a space telescope as part of the space program, and in 1965 Spitzer was appointed as head of a committee given the task of defining scientific objectives for a large space telescope.
(I was the investigator for the Constitution Project's report, and I have discussed its findings with Senate intelligence committee staff. One of the task force's major recommendations was declassification of the SSCI report).
One of his final acts as Dean was to ask that a faculty committee undertake the task of defining the objectives of the College and re-examining its programs and requirements with regard to these objectives.
"We face a looming crisis based on the country's inability to train enough U.S.-born talent," asserts George Langford, a biologist at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, and head of the education committee of the National Science Board, whose task force on the scientific workforce is finishing up a report that is expected to call for a major boost in government training funds (see sidebar).
A particular (unintended) result of the involvement of the steering committee and the task force in the training was accreditation of the training (as stress management module in the training for family health staff).
In 2009, as Operational Excellence was getting off the ground, Vice Chancellor for Research Graham Fleming charged a high-level, nine-member committee with the task of finding new, more cost-effective ways of maintaining the world-class caliber of social-science research at Berkeley.
There they will receive the report from a committee assigned the task of figuring out how to solve baseball's economic imbalance.
After his father was elected to the presidency in 1988, George W. Bush was asked to head a committee with the task of making sure that people who had helped his father win were not overlooked for jobs.
Officials from Rutgers, which has been refitting its old residence halls with sprinklers, told the committee that the task of installing the systems in dormitories was profoundly complicated by the fact that work could only be conducted during 8 or 10 weeks of summer vacation.
