1994-17					Release at Will:  August 1994

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NCAR Climate Modeler Named to Clinton's National Science Board
	BOULDER--Warren Washington, a climate circulation and 
climate system modeler for 30 years with the National Center for 
Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado, is one of six 
people whom President Clinton has nominated to the National 
Science Board for six-year terms until May 10, 2000.  Nominations are 
expected to be approved by the Senate early this fall.
	The principal roles of the Board, which consists of 24 people, are 
to assist the president and Congress in formulating national policies in 
science, engineering and education and to establish policies for the 
National Science Foundation, an independent agency of the federal 
government.  The Board approves NSF's budget submittals to the 
President and Congress, approves new programs and major awards, 
and oversees the functioning of NSF generally.   One-third of the Board 
is appointed every two years, insuring continuity.
	Washington, active in raising awareness of the global 
environment and keeping U.S. science as competitive as possible, is a 
pioneer in the development of climate models to investigate the 
greenhouse problem,  He is currently president of the 11,000-member 
American Meteorological Society.   
	He is also founder of the Black Environmental Science Trust 
(BEST), a nonprofit, multidonor foundation working toward 
increasing the number of black environmental scientists.  BEST aims to 
ensure that informed and 		
-more-
articulate blacks have a voice and a significant presence in 
environmental 
sciences through policymaking, academic, research and industry 
positions.  
	Born in Portland, Oregon, Washington earned a bachelor's 
degree in physics and a master's degree in meteorology at Oregon State 
University.  Upon completion of his doctorate in meteorology at 
Pennsylvania State University,  he joined NCAR, which is sponsored 
by the National Science Foundation and managed by the University 
Corporation for Atmospheric Research.
	Clinton's other five nominees include 
	Eve Menger, director of Technology Administration and 
Services for Corning, Inc., of New York and formerly a professor of 
chemistry at the University of California and vice-provost and 
professor at the University of Virginia; 
	Claudia Mitchell-Kernan, anthropologist and director of the 
Center for Afro-American Studies at UCLA.  She is also dean and vice-
chancellor of graduate programs at UCLA; 
	Diana Natalicio, president of the University of Texas at El Paso 
and  professor of languages and linguistics; 
	Robert Solow, a world-class economist who was awarded the 
Nobel Prize in 1987, and an institute professor at the Massachusetts 
Institute of Technology.  He served on the Council of Economic 
Advisers in the Kennedy Administration and has worked with the 
current council on NAFTA and other issues;  
	John White, dean of the College of Engineering and professor of 
manufacturing at the Georgia Institute of Technology.  He is known for 
his extensive writings on industrial engineering and the 
manufacturing process.
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