Thompson, McMillan, Galloway testify in Washington
Three Vanderbilt officials testified before Congress recently in fa-vor
of the 1998 budget requests of two federal agencies.
Travis Thompson, director of the John F. Kennedy Cen- ter for Re- search
on Human Development, on April 24 urged approval of the budget request of
the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Also testifying
on behalf of the NICHD before the U.S. House Appropriations Subcommittee
on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies were
Elise McMillan, director of development for the Kennedy Center, and her
8-year-old son Will, who has Down syndrome. McMillan is also senior lecturer
in Human and Organizational Development at Peabody College.
Kenneth Galloway, dean of Vanderbilt's School of Engineering and professor
of electrical engineering, also testified April 24 in favor of NASA's 1998
budget request before the Senate Subcommittee on Science, Technology and
Space. Vanderbilt is a participant in a number of NASA-supported science
and engineering activities and is the lead institution in the Tennessee
Space Grant Consortium, which is partially funded through NASA's Space Grant
College Program.
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