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4 top science advisers are named by Obama
Source: Copyright 2008, New York Times
Date: December 21, 2008
Byline: Gardiner Harris
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In his selection of four top scientific advisers, President-elect Barack Obama has signaled what are likely to be significant changes in policies governing global warming, ocean protections and stem cell research.
'It`s time we once again put science at the top of our agenda and worked to restore America`s place as the world leader in science and technology,' Mr. Obama said in a radio address on Saturday, when he announced the appointments.
John P. Holdren, a physicist and environmental policy professor at Harvard, will serve as the president`s science adviser as director of the White House Office of Science and Technology. Jane Lubchenco, a marine biologist from Oregon State University, will lead the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which overseas ocean and atmospheric studies and performs much of the government`s research on global warming.
Dr. Holdren will also be a co-chairman the President`s Council of Advisers on Science and Technology along with the Nobel Prize-winning cancer research Dr. Harold Varmus, a former director of the National Institutes of Health, and Eric S. Lander, a genomic researcher.
'Whether it`s the science to slow global warming; the ...
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