Science Debate 2008: We built it; will they come?
 

We built it; will they come?

Americans urge the presidential candidates to debate science
for the good of America and the sake of our future

Alphabetical
 

Peter Agre

Vice Chancellor for science and technology at Duke University Medical Center, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2003

Rosina Bierbaum

Former Associate Director, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP); Dean of the School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan

 

Bill Chameides

Dean, Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Duke University

Steve Chu

Director, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Professor of Physics and Molecular and Cellular Biology at U.C., Berkeley, Nobel Prize in Physics, 1997

 

Rita Colwell

Former Director, National Science Foundation 1998-2004; Distinguished Professor, University Of Maryland/Johns Hopkins University School Of Public Health; National Medal of Science, 2006

Peter Frumhoff

Director of Science & Policy and Chief Scientist, Climate Campaign, Union of Concerned Scientists; Nobel Peace Prize 2007 (as member of IPCC)

 

 

 

Francesca Grifo

Senior Scientist and Director of the Scientific Integrity Program, Union of Concerned Scientists

 

 

John Holdren

Chair, American Association for the Advancement of Science; President and Director, Woods Hole Research Center

 

Woody Kaplan

Founder and Chair, Civil Liberties List; President, First Amendment Foundation; CEO, The Kaplan Group

Sheril Kirshenbaum

Marine biologist, Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, Duke University; member of Science Debate 2008 steering committee

 

 

 

Kevin Knobloch

President, Union of Concerned Scientists

 

 

Lawrence Krauss

Director, Center for Education and Research in Cosmology and Astrophysics and Ambrose Swasey Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Case Western Reserve University; Member of Science Debate 2008 steering committee

 

Neal Lane

Former Science Advisor to U.S. President Bill Clinton

Leon Lederman

Pritzker Professor of Science, Illinois Institute of Technology; Nobel Prize in Physics, 1988

 

 

 

 

Alan Leshner

CEO, American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world's largest general scientific society

 

 

Jane Lubchenco

Former President, American Association for the Advancement of Science; Distinguished Professor of Zoology, Oregon State University

 

 

 

John Mather

Senior Project Scientist, James Webb Space Telescope; Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People in The World, 2007; Nobel Prize in Physics, 2006 

 

 

James McCarthy

President-elect, American Association for the Advancement of Science; Alexander Agassiz Professor of Biological Oceanography, Harvard University

 

 

 

NewScientist

Clinton vs Obama: who would be best for science? Report on the AAAS debate. 

 

 

John Podesta

CEO, the Center for American Progress; former Chief of Staff to U.S. President Bill Clinton

 

 

 

John Porter

Chair, PBS; Chair, Research!America; Former Congressman (R-Ill.); former chair, House Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations Subcommittee

 

 

Carl Johan Sundberg

Project Initiator, The Euroscience Open Forum

 

 

 

Susan Wood

Former Assistant Commissioner for Women’s Health at the FDA; Research Professor, George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services 

>