[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 227 (Friday, November 25, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Page 72724]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-30367]


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NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION


Advisory Committee For Biological Sciences; Notice of Meeting

    In accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L., 92-
463, as amended), the National Science Foundation announces the 
following meeting:

    Name: Biological Sciences Advisory Committee (1110).
    Date and Time: December 15, 2011; 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. December 16, 
2011; 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
    Place: National Science Foundation, 4201 Wilson Blvd., 
Arlington, VA 22230.
    Type of Meeting: Open.
    Contact Person: Chuck Liarakos, National Science Foundation, 
Room 605, 4201 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, VA 22230 Tel No.: (703) 
292-8400.
    Purpose of Meeting: The Advisory Committee for BIO provides 
advice, recommendations, and oversight concerning major program 
emphases, directions, and goals for the research-related activities 
of the divisions that make up BIO.
    Agenda: Items on the agenda include approval of the Committee of 
Visitors reports for the Divisions of Molecular and Cellular 
Biosciences and Integrated Organismal Systems, reports about NSF 
efforts to improve the merit review process, and discussions of 
fundamental biological research that is the basis for the 21st 
century bio-economy and the undergraduate and graduate biology 
education pipeline.

    Dated: November 21, 2011.
Susanne Bolton,
Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 2011-30367 Filed 11-23-11; 8:45 am]
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