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June 22, 2009 2:26 PM
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Revising Priorities for Ocean Research
The White House is asking for public comment as it updates a key interagency plan for ocean research priorities, which helps guide the agencies’ budget requests. Researchers welcomed the first...
June 16, 2009 5:41 PM
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U.S. Report Says Act Now on Climate Change
With the U.S. Congress set to take up climate change legislation next week, Obama Administration officials today joined with leading climate scientists to emphasize that global warming is real, it’s...
June 12, 2009 5:12 PM
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Obama Calls for National Ocean Policy
Ocean advocates have long called for a better coordinated and more sustainable approach to managing the nation's oceans and the Great Lakes as a way to help lessen pollution and...
June 11, 2009 4:31 PM
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FDA to Expand With New Tobacco Role
The Senate today voted 79–17 to approve a landmark tobacco bill that President Barack Obama said he will sign once it is reconciled with a similar House of Representatives measure....
June 11, 2009 11:07 AM
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Los Alamos Scientist Picked for Nuclear Energy Post
The White House announced this week that it will nominate Warren (Pete) Miller, a long-time researcher and administrator at Los Alamos National Laboratory, as the Department of Energy's Assistant Secretary...
June 5, 2009 6:08 PM
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Fuzzy Spots in Obama's Science Diplomacy
Administration officials are scrambling to add substance to President Barack Obama’s new Middle Eastern science diplomacy initiatives, mentioned Thursday in his speech in Cairo. The President promised new “science envoys,”...
June 4, 2009 5:59 PM
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Obama to Support Science in the Islamic World
In his speech in Cairo today, President Barack Obama indicated his intentions to support scientific initiatives in the Islamic world as part of his vision for promoting peaceful relations between...
June 4, 2009 4:29 PM
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House Panel Favors NOAA in 2010 Budget Proposal
Note: This item was updated at 5:15 p.m. to include the funding level for the National Climate Service.A House of Representatives spending panel has topped (pdf) the president's request for...
May 26, 2009 2:15 PM
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NASA Veterans Nominated to Lead Space Agency
After a week of playing coy, President Barack Obama finally announced his choice to lead NASA on 23 May. He picked two space flight advocates—former astronaut Charles Bolden and Washington...
May 26, 2009 1:04 PM
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NIH Director Rumor Reaches Fever Pitch
The biomedical research community was buzzing Friday with a rumor that the White House would nominate geneticist Francis Collins that afternoon to head the National Institutes of Health. That did...
May 20, 2009 11:26 AM
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Keeping Government Clean
Nineteen professional societies and labor organizations launched a national campaign today to protect the white-collar work force against political interference. The coalition, called Professionals for the Public Interest, held a...
May 18, 2009 3:10 PM
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Former Astronaut Could Be Next NASA Administrator
Former astronaut Charles Bolden is expected to be named the next administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration as early as today, according to press reports over the weekend....
May 15, 2009 5:44 PM
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Will Paul Farmer Join Team Obama?
Paul Farmer, a Harvard physician and co-founder of the international health organization Partners In Health, is reportedly mulling an offer from the Obama Administration to play a leading role in...
May 15, 2009 10:27 AM
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Obama Taps New York City's Health Chief to Lead CDC
President Barack Obama today named New York City’s health commissioner, Thomas R. Frieden, as the new director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)—a post that has been...
April 27, 2009 2:23 PM
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Obama at the Academy, V : Hungry Audience, Meaty Speech
The warm reception at the National Academy of Sciences was also a coming-out party for President Barack Obama, cementing his reputation as a virtual rock star among U.S. scientists. His...
April 27, 2009 11:07 AM
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Obama at the Academy IV: Speech Text
From the White House: THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary ____________________________________________________________________________ FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 27, 2009 Remarks of President Barack Obama – As Prepared for Delivery National...
April 27, 2009 10:21 AM
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Obama at the Academy, III: Aesthetics
From the White House pool report of traveling reporters who shadow the president:A little scenery: there were about 900 people in the room, the vastmajority of them male and white....
April 27, 2009 9:48 AM
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Obama at the Academy, II
From the White House press release; our analysis coming soon. FACT SHEET: A HISTORIC COMMITMENT TO RESEARCH AND EDUCATION Today, President Obama will speak before the Annual Meeting of the...
April 27, 2009 9:08 AM
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Obama at the Academy, I
"The President of the United States is in the building," said Ralph Cicerone this morning at the academy as thousands of scientists filled the hallways, member center, great hall, auditorium,...
April 24, 2009 3:49 PM
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Lincoln, Science Geek
President Barack Obama has made no secret of his admiration for Abraham Lincoln. Just as Obama depends upon his Blackberry to stay in touch with his world, Lincoln was enthralled...
April 24, 2009 11:35 AM
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Obama Science Shop Gets Tech Boss
Buried in the news of President Barack Obama's recent appointment of Aneesh Chopra as chief technology officer in the White House is the fact that Chopra will also serve as...
April 23, 2009 2:20 PM
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Tell Obama What You Think About Scientific Integrity
The White House science office asked today for comments on President Barack Obama's call in March to strengthen scientific integrity and "guide decisions of my Administration."...
April 20, 2009 5:19 PM
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A Bell Labs Reunion at the DOE
When William Brinkman retired in 2001 as head of research for Bell Labs after 35 years with the company and joined the Princeton University physics department, he thought that would...
April 17, 2009 12:03 PM
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John Marburger Is Back ...
... in the Washington wonkery world, at least. He's giving a speech at the end of this month on injecting some science into the tumultuous, politics-infused process of making science...
April 8, 2009 3:50 PM
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In Full Interview, John Holdren Eschews New Nukes, Hints at Space Flight Delays
Three weeks into his job as head of the White House Office of Science and Technology, presidential science adviser John Holdren has laid out clear positions on myriad issues facing...
April 8, 2009 1:00 PM
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AP: Holdren Says Geoengineering Has "Got to Be Looked At"
Seth Borenstein reports that science adviser John Holdren has brought up the issue of studying manual tinkering with the climate, also known as geoengineering, within the government. At first, Holdren...
April 8, 2009 11:30 AM
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Holdren's Top Deputy Is on the Job at OSTP
Presidential science adviser John Holdren is still assembling his team at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). But he's already brought on board one "indispensable" senior...
April 3, 2009 10:40 AM
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New Census Director: Scientists Say They Can Count on Him
Statisticians and other social scientists are delighted with President Barack Obama's decision to nominate Robert M. Groves as the next census director. This is a solid, scientifically important appointment," says...
March 27, 2009 5:20 PM
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Climate Policy Roundup
Energy efficiency and renewable energy chief is named at the Department of Energy: It's Cathy Zoi, former CEO of Al Gore's climate nonprofit, Clinton Administration environmental official, and cleantech...
March 27, 2009 9:56 AM
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Bioethics Panel vs. Obama
Ten members of the White House bioethics advisory board appointed by George W. Bush have slammed the president's stem cell decision, taking issue with Obama's characterization of Bush's 2001 decision....
March 25, 2009 10:11 AM
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Why Won't Obama Turn Down His Lights for Earth Hour?
The Obama Administration is apparently taking a pass on a major opportunity to lead Americans to confront climate change. On Saturday night at 8:30 p.m., wherever they are, millions...
March 11, 2009 8:11 PM
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Reports: Margaret Hamburg to Head FDA
The Obama Administration has chosen a new chief to head the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, according to media reports. She’s Margaret Hamburg, 53, the New York City health...
March 3, 2009 9:40 AM
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Nominations for Lubchenco, Holdren Held Up
The Washington Post has the scoop on why the Senate has yet to vote to confirm Jane Lubchenco for the administrator post at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and...
March 2, 2009 12:37 PM
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Obama Picks Sebelius for HHS
President Barack Obama is expected to announce today that he has nominated Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius to head the Department of Health and Human Services. The response to her nomination,...
February 24, 2009 3:21 PM
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Obama Loses Another Pick
Note: This item has been updated Poor President Barack Obama. His would-be appointees keep slipping through his fingers. Now, even as the president prepares to make a third try at...
February 12, 2009 12:59 PM
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Four Candidates Top NASA List, Says Obama
Who will be the next NASA chief? Speculation has been rife for months about who will replace Michael Griffin as the space agency administrator. Yesterday, U.S. President Barack Obama did...
February 5, 2009 10:38 AM
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It's Go Time for Holdren and Lubchenco
ScienceInsider has learned that the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee hopes to hold a joint hearing next Thursday on the nominations of John Holdren and Jane Lubchenco for the respective positions as director...
January 20, 2009 12:52 PM
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Obama's Inaugural Nod to Science
Given how many problems the country faces, researchers in the United States will no doubt welcome this brief promise in President Obama's inauguration speech: For everywhere we look, there is work...
January 16, 2009 4:16 PM
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New Deputy Director at NSF
Cora Marrett has been appointed acting deputy director of the U.S. National Science Foundation, effective 18 January. She replaces Kathie Olsen, who has been reassigned to work in the Office...
January 16, 2009 3:18 PM
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Obama Will Unveil His Stem Cell Policy. Boosters Debate the Choreography
Stem cell supporters are in a frenzy over the coming change in presidential policy and have been holding press conferences abrim with enthusiasm, if not content. But at a meeting...
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