THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY

1230 YORK AVENUE - NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10021

 

May 19, 1981

  
    

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Mr. Conner Fay < oth ERS
Vice President aS on
Corporate Relations IMAY 2 A 1987,
Clairol Or, RA
345 Park Avenue CE oF tye PRESSE

New York, NY 10022

Dear Conner:

We are pleased to report that our Life Sciences and Public
‘Policy Program is now fully underway. Several specific
accomplishments of the last year can be noted (relevant
documents are enclosed):

--Our first public activity, a Symposium on assessment of
health effects at chemical disposal sites, is being
convened on June 1-2, 1981. This symposium, which
will be attended by well-placed members of industry,
government, special-interest groups, academia, and the
press, will address the prospects and problems in
studying human effects from chronic exposure to waste
chemicais.

 

--Dr. William Lowrance prepared an extensive report,
Choosing our Pleasures and Poisons; Risk Assessment
for the 1960's, which is being published as part of
the Five Year Outlook in Science and Technology. This
report is being developed for the U.S. Congress by the
Administration, the American Association for the
Advancement of Science, and the National Academy of
Sciences.

--Dr. June Goodfield published her chronicle of five years
in the research life of a biomedical scientist, An_
Imagined World: A Story of Scientific Creativity
(Harper & Row, NY, 1981).

--Dr. Goodfield also published Reflections on Science and
the Media, an essay commissioned by the American
Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS,
Washington, DC, 1981).

 
Both Dr. Goodfield and Dr. Lowrance have given numerous
presentations to a wide variety of audiences.

Dr. Lowrance continues to work on his major book project,
provisionally entitled Technological Conscience: Human Values
and Modern Science, Technology, and Medicine. He is also
working on numerous issues in risk assessment and serves as a
consultant on reactor safety to the U.S Nuclear Regulatory
Commission.

The revised budget for the current year of the program is
$160,000. This is the minimum requirement for the core
activities of the program; additional outside funds are sought
for conferences and special projects.

We will greatly appreciate your renewing your grant to the
Program, at the same or an increased level, so we can continue
our efforts. Dr. Joshua Lederberg, president of the University,
and I will be glad to provide any further information you may
request. Also, in making plans for next year we will welcome
any suggestions for projects.

We continue to be grateful for Clairol's support.

Sincerely,
QM FF
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William W. Lowrance
senior Fellow and
Director
Life Sciences and Public

Policy Program
(212) 360-1601

Enclosures

cee Dr, Joshua Lederberg
Mr. Rodney Nichols