Obama Unveils Science & Tech Panel
The White House on Monday announced the full membership of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, an advisory group of the nation's leading scientists and engineers who will advise President Obama and formulate policies pertaining to science, technology, and innovation. PCAST will be co-chaired by Obama's science adviser John Holdren; Eric Lander, director of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard; and Harold Varmus, president of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Google CEO Eric Schmidt and Microsoft's chief research and strategy officer Craig Mundie will serve on the panel.
Other members include:
• Rosina Bierbaum, an expert in climate-change science and ecology and dean of the School of Natural Resources and Environment at the University of Michigan.
• Christine Cassel, president of the American Board of Internal Medicine and an expert in geriatric medicine and quality of care.
• Christopher Chyba, an astrophysical sciences professor at Princeton University who has focused on solar system exploration and nuclear and biological weapons policy.
• S. James Gates Jr., director of the Center for String and Particle Theory at the University of Maryland, College Park.
• Shirley Ann Jackson, president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and former chair of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
• Richard Levin, president of Yale University and an expert in industrial organization, the patent system, and U.S. competitiveness.
• Chad Mirkin, a professor of materials science and engineering, chemistry, and medicine at Northwestern University.
• Mario Molina, a chemistry professor at the University of California, San Diego and the Center for Atmospheric Sciences at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
• Ernest J. Moniz, director of MIT's Energy Initiative.
• William Press, a professor of computer sciences at the University of Texas at Austin.
• Maxine Savitz, retired general manager of technology partnerships at Honeywell.
• Barbara Schaal, a plant geneticist and professor at Washington University in St Louis.
• Daniel Schrag, a geology professor at Harvard University
• David E. Shaw, chief scientist of D. E. Shaw Research.
• Ahmed Zewail, a professor at Caltech and director of the Physical Biology Center.
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