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- While the president of the U.S. has not yet chosen a director for the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), former members of the office—including some who departed along with the Obama administration—“continue to work together, largely behind the scenes,” The Washington Post reported. “There was a pretty explicit sense of community-building as people walked out the door,” Kumar Garg, who was a senior adviser inside Obama’s OSTP, told the newspaper. “People have this really strong sense of mission that they want to carry forward.”
- An Obama administration appointee, National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Francis Collins, who was been asked to remain on with the agency for an indeterminate amount of time, faces unchartered financial opposition from the Trump administration. According to The Chronicle of Higher Education, “Dr. Collins has allies confident that in a year of...
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