COSSA’s Annual Meeting

Each year, following its Board of Directors meeting in the fall, COSSA holds an Annual Meeting for its members. Invitations are sent to representatives of COSSA’s Governing Members, Membership Organizations, University, and Research Centers and Institutes. Key Washington policy makers including Presidential Science Advisers, National Institutes of Health(NIH) and National Science Foundation (NSF) Directors, and Members of Congress have addressed the gatherings.

L-R: COSSA President Myron Gutmann, David Abrams, Howard Silver, John Marburger, David Lightgfoot

L-R: Scott Keeter, Clyde Wilcox, Silver, Gutmann, Hon. Rosa DeLauro, Bill D’Antonio

In addition, the meeting has featured panels on Social Science and the Press, How Congress Views Social Science, and at the 2005 meeting Religion in Public Life featuring Representative Rosa De Lauro. In 2001, COSSA held a special symposium for its 20th Anniversary that featured sessions on the contributions of social and behavioral research to public policy. An edited transcript of that meeting is available.