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Plant Biologist Jane Silverthorne Dies at 69
Katherine Irving | Nov 8, 2022 | 2 min read
Silverthorne shaped the development of many NSF programs driving innovation in plant biology and agriculture. 
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The Scientist Staff | Feb 22, 1987 | 10+ min read
For psychiatrist David A. Hamburg, an early interest in biobehavioral aspects of stress and aggression has broadened to embrace many issues in education, health and public policy. After brief stints at Walter Reed Army Institute of Medical Research and as chief of the adult psychiatry branch at the National Institute of Mental Health, he established the psychiatry department at Stanford University's medical school in 1961. Hamburg left Stan-ford in 1975 to become president of the Institute of Me
Opinion: Misguided Science Policy?
Andrew R. Binder, Dietram A. Scheufele, and Dominique Brossard | Apr 10, 2012 | 3 min read
The pitfalls of using public meetings as surrogate gauges of public opinion
Science Policy Recap: February 9, 2017
Joshua A. Krisch | Feb 8, 2017 | 2 min read
While the executive order on immigration continues to affect scientists, a coalition of public interest groups is suing the Trump administration, alleging that the president’s executive order on regulations “exceeds [his] constitutional authority.”
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Opinion: Biological Science Rejects the Sex Binary, and That’s Good for Humanity
Agustín Fuentes | May 12, 2022 | 5 min read
Evidence from various sciences reveals that there are diverse ways of being male, female, or both. An anthropologist argues that embracing these truths will help humans flourish.
How Democratic Is Science Policy?
Malcolm Goggin | Apr 5, 1987 | 5 min read
Who governs science and technology in a democracy? Can democracy and the world of science even be reconciled? In Governing Science and Technology in a Democracy (University of Tennessee Press, 1986), Malcolm L. Goggin, a political scientist and editor of the volume, presents viewpoints of a dozen professionals in science, law, philosophy and political science. The book is a collection of papers from a two-day conference in Houston in 1985. In this excerpt from the book, Goggin discusses four imp
Science Community Praises White House Policy Report
Barton Reppert | Aug 21, 1994 | 7 min read
Science Community Praises White House Policy Report Author: Barton Reppert Date: August 22, 1994 Long-awaited `white paper' receives high grades from most observers, although some say it misses target. A long-awaited White House report on United States science policy, released earlier this month, is drawing generally strong praise from key scientific and educational association leaders, as well as senior officials
Science Community Praises White House Policy Report
Barton Reppert | Aug 21, 1994 | 7 min read
Science Community Praises White House Policy Report Author: Barton Reppert Date: August 22, 1994 Long-awaited `white paper' receives high grades from most observers, although some say it misses target. A long-awaited White House report on United States science policy, released earlier this month, is drawing generally strong praise from key scientific and educational association leaders, as well as senior officials
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Arctic Greening Won’t Save the Climate—Here’s Why
Donatella Zona, The Conversation | Mar 30, 2022 | 4 min read
The growing season on the tundra is starting earlier as the planet warms, but the plants aren’t sequestering more carbon, a new study finds.
Foundation Funds Environmental Research With Policy Focus
Barbara Spector | Apr 14, 1991 | 6 min read
Author: BARBARA SPECTOR, p.21 Many of the best-known scientists in the field of conservation biology receive funding from the Sustainable Society program of the W. Alton Jones Foundation, headquartered in Charlottesville, Va. Such highly respected environmental researchers as Thomas Lovejoy, assistant secretary for external affairs at the Smithsonian Institution; Paul Ehrlich, Bing Professor of Population Studies at Stanford University's biological sciences department; and Peter Raven, direct

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