Goddard Committee

Independent of the Goddard Committee, the Users Association had performed its own evaluation and received a much more supportive and numerically larger response. This difference in response size would seem to suggest that the Goddard Committee might not have targeted a large number of chemists who had actually made use of the NRCC s services. 

Nevertheless, the final recommendation of the Goddard Committee was that the NRCC be continued for two more years, but with a reduction in budget and scope. The activities of the NRCC were to become solely workshops and software development, eliminating the support of in-house research and increases in computer time. These recommendations were rejeaed by David Shirley, the director of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, where the NRCC was based. In the summer of 1980, the NSF Chemistry Advisory Committee decided that the NSF should discontinue its support. The NRCC was given a one-year extension, but with no additional funds, and the shutdown was announced in the NRCC Bulletin, vol. IV, no. 1, Spring 1981. ... 

Drahos, P., T. Faunce, M. Goddard, and David Henry. 2004. The FTA and the PBS. Submission to the Senate Select Committee on the US-Australia Free Trade Agreement Canberra. Canberra Australian Senate. Available at http //evatt.labor.net.au/publications/papers/126.html [Accessed November 26, 2005]. 

Marion Nestle is the Paulette Goddard Professor in the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at New York University and has been a member of the FDA Food Advisory Committee and Science Board. She wrote Food Politics How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health (2002) and What to Eat (2006). Her diaryfirst appeared in Global Agenda magazine. 

Statement of Comm r Goddard before the Subcommittee on Executive Reorganization of the Senate Committee on Government Operations, May 24, 1966 see note 191 supra. ... 

Almost immediately, the NRCC began to suffer from being subject to two different managers. Lykos emphasized that The 14 to 18 month lead time required by ERDA for the proposal for Phase II, the six month start-up time used up by the NRCC Policy Committee and the LBL Administration, and the three year cycle of the NSF all combined to leave an impossibly small window for the NRCC to develop a proof of concept. The window may have been small to begin with, but it got even smaller when an Ad Hoc Review Committee, chaired by the Caltech theoretical chemist William Goddard, III, began its evaluation of the NRCC in January 1980. It made its final report and recommendations in April 1980, only a little more than two years after the NRCC had begun operations.- ... 

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