Museums and the Web 2000

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Hyman Field

Senior Advisor for Public Understanding of Research
National Science Foundation
Directorate for Education and Human Resource Development
4201 Wilson Boulevard
Arlington VA
22230 USA
Email: hfield@nsf.gov
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Hyman Field is Senior Advisor for Public Understanding of Research in the Directorate for Education and Human Resource Development at the National Science Foundation in Washington, DC. He works closely with the Informal Science Education Program and handles almost all educational television, radio, film and interactive media projects designed to reach the public that are supported by NSF.

Prior to joining the NSF in 1990, he spent 10 years as Senior Program Officer at the Annenberg/CPB Project working with such projects as The Brain, Planet Earth, Voices & Visions, Ethics in America with Fred Friendly, and War and Peace in the Nuclear Age. He previously was a producer/director for seven years at WETA in Washington, DC where he won two EMMY's and numerous other production awards. He has a Ph.D. in Human Development and Curriculum from the University of Maryland and a BA and MA in Radio, Television, and Motion Pictures from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.

Hyman will participate in a Your tax dollars at work: Federal funding sources for US museum web projects