Organization leaders supporting the call
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Linda Abraham-Silver |
CEO, Great Lakes Science Center |
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Geoffrey David Adamson |
President, American Society For Reproductive Medicine |
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Richard Anthes |
President, American Meteorological Society; President, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research |
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Hayk Arakelyan |
President, International Association of Integrative Medicine and Laser Therapy |
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Eugene Arthurs |
CEO, Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE) |
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Jennifer Ayers |
Executive Director, American Institute For Medical And Biological Engineering |
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Roger Beachy |
President & Director, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center |
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William Becker |
Executive Director, Presidential Climate Action Project |
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Edward Bernstein |
President, Industrial Research Institute |
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Frederick Bernthal |
President, Universities Research Association, Inc. |
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Roger Bingham |
Director, The Science Network |
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James Bond |
President, NE Los Angeles Gateway Chamber of Commerce |
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David Bressoud |
President-elect, Mathematical Association Of America |
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William Bro |
CEO, Kidney Cancer Association |
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Jeanette Brown |
Chair, Great Lakes Science Center; Past Chair, U.S. National Comm. for IUPAC |
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William Brown |
President & CEO, Academy of Natural Sciences |
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August Brunsman IV |
Executive Director, Secular Student Alliance |
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Robert Bryant |
Director, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute |
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Brett Burk |
Executive Director, Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology |
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Burke Burnett |
Executive Secretary, Pacific Science Association |
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Bruce Bursten |
President, American Chemical Society; Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Tennessee–Knoxville |
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James Calhoun |
Cofounder, PDXThink |
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Jacqueline Calnan |
President, Americans For Medical Progress |
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Cathleen Campbell |
President & CEO, Civilian Research and Development Foundation |
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Christina Chambers |
President, Teratology Society |
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Jennifer Chayes |
Managing Director, Microsoft Research New England |
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Ralph Cicerone |
President, National Academy of Sciences |
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Dan Combs |
Director, National Emergency Preparedness Coordinating Council |
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Tonia Compton |
President & CEO, National Association Of Graduate-Professional Students |
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Brian Conrey |
Executive Director, American Institute of Mathematics |
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Richard Conti |
CEO, Science Museum of Virginia |
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Michael Corbin |
Director, everyminute.org |
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Alexander Dale |
President, Engineers For A Sustainable World |
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Robert Day |
Executive Director, Renewable Natural Resources Foundation |
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Michael De Dora |
Director, Office Of Public Policy, Center for Inquiry |
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Calvin DeWitt |
President, Academy of Evangelical Scientists and Ethicists; Chair, Advisory Council, Evangelical Campaign to Combat Global Warming and Climate Change; Professor, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at UW-Madison |
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Jerry Draayer |
President & CEO, Southeastern Universities Research Association |
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Pamela Drexel |
Executive Director, The Brain Trauma Foundation |
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Timothy Early |
President & CEO, Hampton Roads Technology Council |
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Joseph Ecker |
President, International Society for Plant Molecular Biology; Director, The Salk Institute Genomic Analysis Laboratory |
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Mark Emmert |
President, NCAA |
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Brian Engler |
Executive Vice President, Military Operations Research Society |
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Joseph Falke |
President, Biophysical Society; Director, Molecular Biophysics Program, University of Colorado |
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Francis Fennell |
President, National Council of Teachers of Mathematics; Professor of Education, McDaniel College |
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Henry Ferguson |
Science Division Head, Space Telescope Science Institute |
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Harvey Fineberg |
President, Institute of Medicine |
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Katherine Forrest |
President, Commonweal Institute |
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Paul Fowler |
Research Director, National Council For Advanced Manufacturing |
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Martin Frank |
Executive Director, American Physiological Society |
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Wendy Freedman |
Director, The Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington |
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Mynga Futrell |
Executive Director, The Brights' Network |
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Ellen Futter |
President, American Museum Of Natural History |
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Joseph Gallian |
President, Mathematical Association of America |
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William Gardner |
Executive Director, American Registry Of Pathology |
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James Gentile |
President, Research Corporation |
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Steven Gilbert |
Director and Founder of the Institute of Neurotoxicology and Neurological Disorders (INND) |
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Brain Glanz |
Director, Open Science Federation |
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James Glimm |
President, American Mathematical Society; National Medal of Science, 2003 |
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Kurt Gottfried |
Chair & cofounder, Union of Concerned Scientists; Professor Emeritus of Physics, Cornell University |
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Nancy Granese |
Executive Director, Campaign For Medical Research |
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Michael Gray |
President, Entomological Society Of America |
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James Greenwood |
President & CEO, Biotechnology Industry Organization |
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Philip Hammer |
Associate Vice President, Physics Resources, American Institute of Physics |
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Wier Harman |
Executive Director, Town Hall Seattle |
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Howard Harper |
Executive Director, Society For Sedimentary Geology |
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Nancy Hensel |
Executive Officer, Council On Undergraduate Research |
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Barbara Hickernell |
Director, Engineering Conferences International |
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Kathryn Hinsch |
Founding Director and Board President, Women’s Bioethics Project |
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Leaetta Hough |
President, Federation of Behavioral, Psychological, and Cognitive Sciences; Past President, Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology |
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Betsy Houston |
Executive Director, Federation Of Materials Societies |
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Marilyn Hoyt |
President & CEO, New York Hall Of Science |
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Alan Hurd |
President Emeritus, Materials Research Society |
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Walter Isaacson |
President & CEO, Aspen Institute; Author of Einstein: His Life and Universe |
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Evelyn Jabri |
CEO, the RNA Society |
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Madeleine Jacobs |
Executive Director, American Chemical Society |
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Deborah Jensen |
CEO, Woodland Park Zoo; President Emerita, Society for Consevation Biology |
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James Jensen |
Executive Director, Government Affairs, National Academy of Sciences |
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Sonchia Jilek |
Executive Director, Pinhead Institute |
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Eric Jolly |
President, Science Museum of Minnesota |
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Woody Kaplan |
Founder and Chair, Civil Liberties List; President, First Amendment Foundation; CEO, The Kaplan Group |
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Jeffrey Kargel |
Leader of Global Land Ice Measurements from Space, a 29-nation glacier remote sensing consortium |
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Russel Kaufman |
President & CEO, The Wistar Institute |
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Dale Keairns |
President, American Institute of Chemical Engineers |
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Henry Kelly |
President, Federation of American Scientists |
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Cathy Kessel |
President, Association for Women in Mathematics |
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Kevin Knobloch |
President, Union of Concerned Scientists |
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Alan Kraut |
Executive Director, Association For Psychological Science |
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Paul Kurtz |
Chairman, Center for Inquiry; Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, State University of New York at Buffalo |
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Phoebe Leboy |
President, Association For Women In Science |
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Russell Lefevre |
2008 President, IEEE-USA, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |
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Alan Leshner |
CEO, American Association for the Advancement of Science; Executive Publisher, Science |
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Jen Levy |
Executive Director, Association of Nature Center Administrators |
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Nadine Lomakin |
Executive Director, Life Science Career Alliance |
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Zack Lynch |
Executive Director, Neurotechnology Industry Organization |
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Eve Marder |
President, Society For Neuroscience |
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Gordon Maupin |
Executive Director, The Wilderness Center |
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Michael McCally |
Executive Director, Physicians For Social Responsibility; Co-Director of the Center for Children’s Health and the Environment, Mount Sinai School of Medicine |
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James McCarthy |
President-elect, American Association for the Advancement of Science; Alexander Agassiz Professor of Biological Oceanography, Harvard University |
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James McClelland |
President-elect, Federation of Behavioral, Psychological, & Cognitive Sciences; Professor of Psychology, Stanford University |
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Robertson McClung |
President, American Society of Plant Biologists |
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Richard Meserve |
President, The Carnegie Institution of Washington; Former Chairman, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) |
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Monica Metzler |
President, Illinois Science Council |
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Ioannis Miaoulis |
President and Director, Museum Of Science |
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Michael McCally |
Executive Director, Physicians For Social Responsibility |
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Katherine McCarter |
Executive Director, Ecological Society Of America |
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Jonathan Meade |
Executive Director, Highlands Coalition |
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Cleve Moler |
President, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics |
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Jan Morrison |
Executive Director, Ties Teaching Institute For Excellence In STEM |
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Richard Moss |
Vice President for Climate Change, World Wildlife Fund (WWF); member, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) |
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Carol Muller |
Founder, MentorNet, the E-Mentoring Network for Diversity in Engineering and Science |
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Thomas Murray |
President & CEO, The Hastings Center |
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Jeanne Narum |
Director, The Independent Colleges Office; Founder of Project Kaleidoscope |
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Richard Norgaard |
Co-founder & President Emeritus, International Society for Ecological Economics; Professor Of Energy And Resources, University of California, Berkeley |
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Bill Nye |
Bill Nye The Science Guy; Vice President, The Planetary Society; Frank H. T. Rhodes Professor, Cornell University; Union of Concerned Scientists National Advisory Board |
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Timothy O'Donnell |
Chair, The National Debate Tournament |
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Richard O'Grady |
Executive Director, American Institute Of Biological Sciences |
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Beth Parke |
Executive Director, Society Of Environmental Journalists |
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John Parrish |
Executive Director, Center For Integration Of Medicine And Innovative Technology |
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John Pearse |
President, Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology; Past President, California Academy of Sciences |
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Thomas Pierson |
CEO, SETI Institute |
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James Porter |
President, Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society |
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Victor Rabinowitch |
Senior Vice President emeritus, John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation |
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Leonard Raley |
President & CEO, University System Of Maryland Foundation |
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Carter Roberts |
President & CEO, World Wildlife Fund (WWF) |
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Pablo Rodriguez |
Board Chair, Association of Reproductive Health Professionals (ARHP) |
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Philip Rubin |
CEO, Haskins Laboratories |
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Jim Rutt |
Vice Chair, Board of Trustees, Santa Fe Institute |
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Jean Sachs |
Executive Director, Living Beyond Breast Cancer |
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William Schlesinger |
President, Cary Institute Of Ecosystem Studies; Past President, Ecological Society of America |
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Eugenie Scott |
Executive Director, National Center for Science Education |
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John Seager |
President & CEO, Population Connection |
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Michael Seiden |
President & CEO, Fox Chase Cancer Center |
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Wayne Shields |
President & CEO, Association of Reproductive Health Professionals (ARHP) |
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Bernard Siegel |
Executive Director, Genetics Policy Institute |
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Mike Simmons |
Chairman of the Board, Aspen Science Center |
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Maxine Singer |
President Emerita, Carnegie Institution of Washington; National Medal of Science, 1992; Public Welfare Medal of the National Academy of Sciences, 2007 |
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Jack Solomon |
Chairman, Chemical Industry Vision2020 Technology Partnership, an industry-led collaborative process to accelerate innovation and technology development in the chemical industry |
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Susan Solomon |
CEO, New York Stem Cell Foundation |
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Roy Speckhardt |
Executive Director, American Humanist Association |
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Will Steger |
President, Will Steger Foundation; Polar Explorer and developer of the Global Warming 101 Initiative |
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Bruce Stillman |
President, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory |
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Lesley Stone |
Executive Director, Scientists and Engineers for America |
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Tina Straley |
Executive Director, Mathematical Association Of America |
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Mark Sykes |
Director, Planetary Science Institute |
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Stephen Tang |
President & CEO, University City Science Center |
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Rebecca Taylor |
Senior Vice President, The National Center For Manfuacturing Sciences |
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Scott Tinker |
President, American Association of Petroleum Geologists; Director and State Geologist, Bureau Of Economic Geology, Univeristy Of Texas; Past President, Association of American State Geologists |
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Toufic Hakim |
Executive Officer, American Association of Physics Teachers |
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Bonnie Vandorn |
Executive Director, Association Of Science-Technology Centers |
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J. Craig Venter |
President, J. Craig Venter Institute; Chair and founder, The Institute for Genomic Research; Time 100 list of the 100 most influential people of 2007; mapper of the human genome |
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Charles Vest |
President, National Academy of Engineering |
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Regina Vidaver |
Executive Director, National Lung Cancer Partnership |
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Cynthia Volkert |
President, Materials Research Society |
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Thomas Wallsten |
President Emeritus, Federation of Behavioral, Psychological, & Cognitive Sciences; Professor and Chair in the Department of Psychology, University of Maryland |
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Barbara Wanchisen |
Executive Director, Federation of Behavioral, Psychological, & Cognitive Sciences |
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Kevin Ward |
Executive Director, Aspen Science Center |
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Ronald Wasserstein |
Executive Director, American Statistical Association |
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Geoffrey West |
President, Santa Fe Institute, Time 100 list of the 100 most influential people of 2006 |
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Rosanne White |
Executive Director, Technology Student Association (TSA) |
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Jonathan Wiener |
President, Society for Risk Analysis; Perkins Professor of Law & Environmental Policy, Duke University |
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Harman Wier |
Executive Director, Town Hall Seattle |
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Ronnie Wilkins |
Executive Director, American College Of Neuropsychopharmacology |
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Deborah Wince-Smith |
President, Council on Competitiveness |
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Dennis Wint |
President & CEO, The Franklin Institute Science Museum |
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Mary Ann Wolf |
Executive Director, State Educational Technology Directors Association |
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David Woodland |
President & Director, Trudeau Institute |
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Andrew Wyrobek |
President, Environmental Mutagen Society |
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Leann Yoder |
Executive Director, Junior Engineering Technology Society |
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Lorelle Young |
President, U.S. Metric Association |
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Robert Yu |
President, American Society Of Neurochemistry; Professor And Director, Medical College Of Georgia |
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Sam Zamrik |
President, American Society Of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) |
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Alexander Zwissler |
Executive Director/CEO, Chabot Space and Science Center |






