Fed Event: Fri, March 11th, 11 AM: Panel with Dept. of Ed, NIH and NIST

Federal Careers and Internships Panel: Department of Education, National Institutes of Health (NIH), and National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST)

Friday, March 11, 2011 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM, 1203 Van Munching Hall

Learn about careers and internships in the federal government. Panel features speakers from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the U.S. Department of Education, the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST), and the Partnership for Public Service. Event includes light refreshments and networking time. Event cosponsored by the School of Public Policy and the Federal Semester Program. (Room is on the School of Public Policy side of Van Munching Hall.)

Speakers

Judy Wurtzel is Deputy Assistant Secretary, Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development, at the U.S. Department of Education. Judy Wurtzel comes to the department from The Aspen Institute, where she has served as co-director since 2005, helping local, state and national education leaders improve the education and life chances of poor and minority students. Prior to her tenure at the Aspen Institute, Wurtzel served as executive director of The Learning First Alliance, a partnership of leading national education associations formed to improve teaching and learning. Wurtzel also served as senior advisor to the deputy secretary at the U.S. Department of Education from 1993 to 1999 and as associate counsel to the president in the White House Office of Presidential Personnel. Wurtzel received her B.A. in literature from Yale and a law degree from New York University.

Virginia Hill Condon joined the National Institutes of Health in August 2007. As a Presidential Management Fellow, Ms. Condon focused her attention on communications and public affairs to disseminate the important biomedical research of the NIH in new, creative ways. Ms. Condon is able to put her talents to work in her current position at the NIH Clinical Center by working on intramural-extramural partnerships, implementation of social media tools, and strategic communications and management planning. Also, she coordinates the new Sabbatical program in Clinical Research Management. She earned her Master of Social Work from Louisiana State University in 2007 and a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from the University of Illinois in 2005.

Dr. Josh Pomeroy is an experimental physicist at the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST), a non-regulatory federal agency that promotes U.S. innovation and industrial competitiveness. He performs fundamental research that explores the quantum mechanical phenomena that limits the performance of electronics and seeks ways to overcome or, if possible, harness those phenomena. This work is expected to provide benefits to future electronics by providing more computing power, more storage and less energy use. He designs and builds apparatuses, fabricates samples, exposes the samples to well-controlled experimental conditions, measures their properties at the end, analyzes the results and ultimately writes papers and communicates the results to other scientists.

Dr. Pomeroy enjoys working for the federal government because he is deeply concerned about our nation's ability to remain technically competitive. He knows that many students do not recognize the opportunities and advantages of being a scientist for the government and wants to help change this perception.

Dr. Pomeroy graduated from Cornell University with a Ph.D. in Physics and received his undergraduate degree in physics from Boston University. Dr. Pomeroy was also a 2008 Service to America medal finalist.