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Organizational signers      Nobel & Crafoord Laureates      Government Leaders      Organization Leaders     

College & University Presidents     Academic Leaders & Leading Scientists    Business Leaders    Editors, Writers & Other Thought Leaders 

Organizational signers

 
 
 

Academy of Natural Sciences
Allegheny College
Alliance for Science & Technology Research in America
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
American Association of Immunologists
American Association of Physical Anthropologists
American Association of Physicists in Medicine
American Chemical Society
American Dental Association
American Economics Group, Inc.
American Geophysical Union (AGU)
American Humanist Association
American Institute of Biological Sciences
American Institute of Chemical Engineers
American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering
American Institute of Physics
American Museum of Natural History
American Physical Society
American Psychological Association
American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
American Society for Cell Biology
American Society of Civil Engineers
American Society of Landscape Architects
American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
American Society of Plant Biologists
American Statistical Association
The American University
Annual Reviews
Arizona State University
The Aspen Institute
Aspen Science Center
Association of American Medical Colleges
Association of Nature Center Administrators
Association of Reproductive Health Professionals (ARHP)
Association of Science-Technology Centers
Association for Women in Mathematics
Association for Women in Science
Astrophysical Journal
Barnard College
The Biophysical Society
The Brain Trauma Foundation
The Carnegie Institution of Washington
California State University,Monterey Bay
Case Western Reserve University (CWRU)
Chemical Heritage Foundation
Civilian Research and Development Foundation
Center for Inquiry
Center for Science Writings, Stevens Institute of Technology
Columbia University
Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology
Cornell University
The Council on Competitiveness
The Council on Undergraduate Research
Cosmos Studios
Dickinson College
Drexel University
Duke University
EarthSky Communications
Ecological Society of America
The Endocrine Society
Entomological Society Of America
Federation of Behavioral, Psychological, & Cognitive Sciences
Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB)
Florida Citizens for Science
Foundation for the Advancement of Behavioral & Brain Sciences
Fox Chase Cancer Center
The Franklin Institute Science Museum
Friends of the Earth
Georgia Institute of Technology
Great Lakes Science Center
The Hastings Center
Highlands Coalition
Humboldt University
IEEE-USA
Illinois Institute of Technology
Illinois Science Council
Independent Colleges Office
The Institute of Medicine
Issues in Science and Technology Magazine
Johns Hopkins University
Kavli Institute For Theoretical Physics
Kenyon College
Kettering University
Lawrence University
Lerner Research Institute, The Cleveland Clinic
Macalester College
Manhattanville College
Materials Research Society
MentorNet
Michigan Technological University
Museum of Science Boston
The National Academy of Engineering
The National Academy of Sciences
National Association Of Graduate-Professional Students
National Center for Manfuacturing Sciences
National Center for Science Education
National Emergency Preparedness Coordinating Council
National Postdoctoral Association
National Wildlife Federation
Natural Science Collections Alliance
Nature Immunology
The New School
New York Hall of Science
New York University
Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences at Duke University
North Carolina State University
Northwestern University
NOVA Television Series
NOW, PBS weekly TV news program
Oberlin College
Partners HealthCare System
Physicians for Social Responsibility
Planetary Science Institute
Plenty Magazine
Pomona College
Popular Science Magazine
Population Connection
Presidential Climate Action Project
R&D Magazine
Renewable Natural Resources Foundation
Research!America
Research Corporation
Rochester Institute Of Technology
Saint Francis University
The Santa Fe Institute
Sarah Lawrence College
Science Magazine
ScienceBlogging.com
Science Friday, Inc
Science Illustrated Magazine
Science Museum of Minnesota
The Science Network
Science Progress
Scientific American Magazine
ScientificBlogging.com
The Scientist Magazine
Scientists and Engineers for America
Secular Coalition for America
Seed Media Group, Seed Magazine, and ScienceBlogs
Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA)
SETI Institute
Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society
Skeptic Magazine
Skeptical Inquirer Magazine
Skeptics Society
Smith College
Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology
Society for Neuroscience
Society for Science & the Public
Society for Women's Health Research
Society of Women Engineers
Southeastern Universities Research Association
SRI International
Stanford University
State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA)
Student Society for Stem Cell Research (SSSCR)
Sunshine Week
Sweet Briar College
Technology Student Association
Towson University
Tri-State University
Tufts University
The Union of Concerned Scientists
University of Arizona
University at Buffalo, State University of New York
University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Riverside
University of Cincinnati
University City Science Center
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
University of Maryland
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
University of Massachusetts
University of Minnesota
University of Notre Dame
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
University of The Sciences in Philadelphia
University of Texas at Dallas
University of Washington
U.S. Metric Association
Virginia Tech
Wesleyan University
Western Michigan University
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
Widener University
The Wilderness Center
The Will Steger Foundation
Wired.com
World Wildlife Fund (WWF)

   

Nobel & Crafoord Laureates

 
 

Peter Agre

Director, Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute, Bloomberg School of Public Health; Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2003

David Baltimore

Chairman, American Association for the Advancement of Science; Robert A. Millikan Professor of Biology and Past President, Caltech; Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1975

Eugene Butcher 

Professor of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine; Crafoord Prize in Polyarthritis, 2004

Eric Chivian

Director, Center For Health And The Global Environment, Harvard Medical School; co-founder, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, Nobel Peace Prize, 1985

Steve Chu

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

Andrew Fire

Professor of Pathology and Genetics, Stanford University; Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 2006

Val Fitch

Particle physicist, Princeton University, worked on the Manhattan Project while in the Army; Nobel Prize in Physics, 1980    

Jerome Friedman

Institute Professor & Professor Of Physics Emeritus, MIT; Nobel Prize in Physics, 1990    

Peter Frumhoff

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

Sheldon Glashow

The Metcalf Professor of Mathematics and Physics at Boston University, Nobel Prize in Physics, 1979

David Gross

Director of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, U.C. Santa Barbara; Nobel Prize in Physics, 2004

Robert Grubbs

Victor and Elizabeth Atkins Professor of Chemistry, CalTech; Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2005

Dudley Herschbach

Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of Science, Harvard University; Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1986

Roald Hoffman

Frank H. T. Rhodes Professor of Humane Letters, Cornell University; Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1981

Elisabeth Holland

Senior Scientist, Biogeosciences Program, National Center For Atmospheric Reserch; Nobel Peace Prize 2007 (as member of IPCC)

Robert Horvitz

David H. Koch Professor of Biology, MIT; Nobel Prize in Physiology, 2002

Wolfgang Ketterle

John D. MacArthur Professor of Physics; Director, MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms, Nobel Prize in Physics, 2001

Leon Lederman

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

John Mather

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

Craig Mello

Blais Professor of Molecular Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School; Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 2006

Michael Oppenheimer

Albert G. Milbank Professor of Geosciences and International Affairs, Princeton University; Nobel Peace Prize 2007 (as member of IPCC)

David Politzer

The Tolman Professor of Theoretical Physics, CalTech; Nobel Prize in Physics, 2004

Robert Richardson

Director, Kavli Insitute, Cornell University; Nobel Prize in Physics, 1996

Alan Robock

Meteorology Professor, Rutgers University; Nobel Peace Prize 2007 (as member of IPCC)

Edwin Salpeter

Professor Emeritus, Cornell University; Crafoord Prize in Astronomy, 1997

Allan Sandage

Astrophysicist, Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington; Crafoord Prize in Astronomy, 1991

Richard Schrock

Frederick G. Keyes Professor Of Chemistry, M.I.T.; Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2005

Harold Varmus

President, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center; past director of the National Institutes of Health; Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1989

James Watson

Former President, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory; Discoverer of the DNA Molecule; National Medal of Science, 1997; Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1962

Frank Wilczek

Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics, M.I.T.; Nobel Prize in Physics, 2004 

Ahmed Zewail

Director of the Physical Biology Center for Ultrafast Science & Technology and the NSF Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Caltech; Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1999

   

Government Leaders

 
 

Brian Baird

Congressman, D, 3rd District, Washington, Chairman, Research and Science Education Subcommittee, Science and Technology Committee

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

Joseph Bordogna

Former Deputy Director, National Science Foundation; Alfred Fitler Moore Professor Of Engineering, University Of Pennsylvania

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

George Cowan

White House Science Council member under President Reagan; Recipient, Enrico Fermi Award; founding member, Santa Fe Institute; conducted nuclear research with the Manhattan Project

Vern Ehlers

Congressman, R, 3rd District, Michigan, Ranking Republican, House Subcommittee on Research & Science Education

Vernon Ellingstad

Director, Office of Research and Engineering, National Transportation Safety Board

Sam Farr

Congressman, D, 17th District, California

Bill Foster

Congressman, D, 14th District, Illinois

William Fraser

Chief Geologist, California Division of Safety of Dams

Richard Garwin

Member President's Science Advisory Committee, 1962-65, 1969-72, (Presidents Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon), Defense Science Board 1966-69; Council Member, National Academy of Sciences; Former Director IBM Watson Lab; IBM Research Center Fellow Emeritus 

John Gibbons

Former Science Adviser to President Clinton

Wayne Gilchrest

Congressman, R, 1st District, Maryland

Newt Gingrich

Former U.S. Speaker of the House

Bart Gordon

Congressman, D, 6th District, Tennessee; Chairman, U.S. House Committee on Science and Technology

Rush Holt

Congressman, D, 12th District, New Jersey

Jay Inslee

Congressman, D, 1st District, Washington

William Jeffrey

Director, Science and Technology Division, Studies and Analyses Center, Institute for Defense Analyses; Former Director, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST); Former Senior Director of Homeland and National Security in the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP)

Mauri Katz

Former Director, U.S. Dept. of Energy, Office of Defense Program Laboratories

Alexander King

Director, Ames Laboratory, U.S. Dept. of Energy

Nancy Kopp

State Treasurer, State of Maryland

Madeleine Kunin

Former Governor, State of Vermont; Former U.S. Deputy Secretary of Education; Former Ambassador to Switzerland

Michael Lach

Head of High School Teaching and Learning, Chicago Public Schools

Christopher Landsea

Science and Operations Officer, NOAA/NWS/National Hurricane Center

Neal Lane

Former Science Adviser to President Clinton

Jim Leach

Former Congressman, R, 2nd District, Iowa; Director, Institute of Politics, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; former Chair, Banking and Financial Services Committee, Subcommittee on Asian and Pacific Affairs, and Congressional-Executive Commission on China

Jack Markell

State Treasurer, State of Delaware

Thomas Mason

Director, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S. Dept. of Energy

Betty McCollum

Congresswoman, D, 4th District, Minnesota

Jerry McNerney

Congressman, D, 11th District, California; Vice Chair, Research and Science Education Subcommittee, Science and Technology Committee

David Michaels

Former Asst. Secretary, U.S. Dept. of Energy; Director, The Project on Scientific Knowledge and Public Policy and Acting Chairman, Dept. of Environmental and Occupational Health, George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services

Brad Miller

Congressman, D, 13th District, North Carolina; Chairman, Investigations and Oversight Subcommittee, Science and Technology Committee

Rebecca Otto

State Auditor, State of Minnesota

Malcolm Peterson

NASA Comptroller, 1993-2002; SES Presidential Rank Award

John Podesta

Former White House Chief of Staff, President Clinton; CEO, the Center for American Progress

John Porter

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

Jim Ramstad

Congressman, R, 3rd District, Minnesota

Andrew Reynolds

Deputy Science & Technology Adviser to the Secretary of State

R.T. Rybak

Mayor, City of Minneapolis

Greg Simon

Former Chief Domestic Policy Advisor to Vice President Al Gore; President, Fastercures

Walter Slocombe

Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, 1994-2001; Senior Advisor for National Security and Defense, Coalition Provisional Authority for Iraq, 2003

James Tate, Jr.

Former Science Advisor to the Secretary of the Interior

Tim Walz

Congressman, D, 1st District, Minnesota

Susan Wood

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

 

 

Organization Leaders

 
 

Linda Abraham-Silver

CEO, Great Lakes Science Center

Geoffrey David Adamson

President, American Society For Reproductive Medicine

Richard Anthes

President, American Meteorological Society; President, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Hayk Arakelyan

President, International Association of Integrative Medicine and Laser Therapy

Eugene Arthurs

CEO, Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE)

Jennifer Ayers

Executive Director, American Institute For Medical And Biological Engineering

Roger Beachy

President & Director, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center 

William Becker

Executive Director, Presidential Climate Action Project

Edward Bernstein

President, Industrial Research Institute

Frederick Bernthal

President, Universities Research Association, Inc.

Roger Bingham

Director, The Science Network

David Bressoud

President-elect, Mathematical Association Of America

William Bro

CEO, Kidney Cancer Association

Jeanette Brown

Chair, Great Lakes Science Center; Past Chair, U.S. National Comm. for IUPAC

William Brown

President & CEO, Academy of Natural Sciences

Robert Bryant

Director, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute

Brett Burk

Executive Director, Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology

Bruce Bursten

President, American Chemical Society; Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Tennessee–Knoxville

Jacqueline Calnan

President, Americans For Medical Progress

Cathleen Campbell

President & CEO, Civilian Research and Development Foundation

Christina Chambers

President, Teratology Society

Jennifer Chayes

Managing Director, Microsoft Research New England

Ralph Cicerone

President, National Academy of Sciences

Dan Combs

Director, National Emergency Preparedness Coordinating Council

Tonia Compton

President & CEO, National Association Of Graduate-Professional Students

Brian Conrey

Executive Director, American Institute of Mathematics

Richard Conti

CEO, Science Museum of Virginia

Alexander Dale

President, Engineers For A Sustainable World

Robert Day

Executive Director, Renewable Natural Resources Foundation

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

Jerry Draayer

President & CEO, Southeastern Universities Research Association

Pamela Drexel

Executive Director, The Brain Trauma Foundation

Timothy Early

President & CEO, Hampton Roads Technology Council

Joseph Ecker

President, International Society for Plant Molecular Biology; Director, The Salk Institute Genomic Analysis Laboratory

Brian Engler

Executive Vice President, Military Operations Research Society

Joseph Falke

President, Biophysical Society; Director, Molecular Biophysics Program, University of Colorado

Francis Fennell

President, National Council of Teachers of Mathematics; Professor of Education, McDaniel College

Henry Ferguson

Science Division Head, Space Telescope Science Institute

Harvey Fineberg

President, Institute of Medicine

Katherine Forrest

President, Commonweal Institute

Paul Fowler

Research Director, National Council For Advanced Manufacturing

Martin Frank

Executive Director, American Physiological Society

Wendy Freedman

Director, The Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington

Ellen Futter

President, American Museum Of Natural History

Joseph Gallian

President, Mathematical Association of America

William Gardner

Executive Director, American Registry Of Pathology

James Gentile

President, Research Corporation

James Glimm

President, American Mathematical Society; National Medal of Science, 2003

Kurt Gottfried

Chair & cofounder, Union of Concerned Scientists; Professor Emeritus of Physics, Cornell University

Nancy Granese

Executive Director, Campaign For Medical Research

Michael Gray

President, Entomological Society Of America

James Greenwood

President & CEO, Biotechnology Industry Organization

Philip Hammer

Vice President for the Franklin Center, The Franklin Institute; President, Haddon Heights, NJ Board of Education

Howard Harper

Executive Director, Society For Sedimentary Geology

Nancy Hensel

Executive Officer, Council On Undergraduate Research

Kathryn Hinsch

Founding Director and Board President, Women’s Bioethics Project

John Holdren

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

Leaetta Hough

President, Federation of Behavioral, Psychological, and Cognitive Sciences; Past President, Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology

Betsy Houston

Executive Director, Federation Of Materials Societies

Marilyn Hoyt

President & CEO, New York Hall Of Science

Alan Hurd

President Emeritus, Materials Research Society

Walter Isaacson

President & CEO, Aspen Institute; Author of Einstein: His Life and Universe

Evelyn Jabri

CEO, the RNA Society

Deborah Jensen

CEO, Woodland Park Zoo; President Emerita, Society for Consevation Biology

Sonchia Jilek

Executive Director, Pinhead Institute

Eric Jolly

President, Science Museum of Minnesota

Woody Kaplan

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

Jeffrey Kargel

Leader of Global Land Ice Measurements from Space, a 29-nation glacier remote sensing consortium 

Russel Kaufman

President & CEO, The Wistar Institute

Dale Keairns

President, American Institute of Chemical Engineers

Henry Kelly

President, Federation of American Scientists

Cathy Kessel

President, Association for Women in Mathematics

Kevin Knobloch

President, Union of Concerned Scientists

Alan Kraut

Executive Director, Association For Psychological Science

Paul Kurtz

Chairman, Center for Inquiry; Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, State University of New York at Buffalo

Phoebe Leboy

President, Association For Women In Science

Russell Lefevre

President, IEEE-USA, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Alan Leshner

CEO, American Association for the Advancement of Science; Executive Publisher, Science

Jen Levy

Executive Director, Association of Nature Center Administrators

Nadine Lomakin

Executive Director, Life Science Career Alliance

Jane Lubchenco

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

Zack Lynch

Executive Director, Neurotechnology Industry Organization

Eve Marder

President, Society For Neuroscience

Gordon Maupin

Executive Director, The Wilderness Center

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

James McCarthy

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

James McClelland

President-elect, Federation of Behavioral, Psychological, & Cognitive Sciences; Professor of Psychology, Stanford University

Robertson McClung

President, American Society of Plant Biologists

Marcia McNutt

President & CEO, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute

Richard Meserve

President, The Carnegie Institution of Washington; Former Chairman, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)

Monica Metzler

President, Illinois Science Council

Ioannis Miaoulis

President and Director, Museum Of Science

Katherine McCarter

Executive Director, Ecological Society Of America

Jonathan Meade

Executive Director, Highlands Coalition

Cleve Moler

President, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics

Jan Morrison

Executive Director, Ties Teaching Institute For Excellence In STEM

Richard Moss

Vice President for Climate Change, World Wildlife Fund (WWF); member, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

Carol Muller

Founder, MentorNet, the E-Mentoring Network for Diversity in Engineering and Science

Thomas Murray

President & CEO, The Hastings Center

Jeanne Narum

Director, The Independent Colleges Office; Founder of Project Kaleidoscope

Richard Norgaard

Co-founder & President Emeritus, International Society for Ecological Economics; Professor Of Energy And Resources, University of California, Berkeley

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

Timothy O'Donnell

Chair, The National Debate Tournament

Richard O'Grady

Executive Director, American Institute Of Biological Sciences

Beth Parke

Executive Director, Society Of Environmental Journalists

John Parrish

Executive Director, Center For Integration Of Medicine And Innovative Technology

John Pearse

President, Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology; Past President, California Academy of Sciences

Thomas Pierson

CEO, SETI Institute

James Porter

President, Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society

Victor Rabinowitch

Senior Vice President emeritus, John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation

Leonard Raley

President & CEO, University System Of Maryland Foundation

Carter Roberts

President & CEO, World Wildlife Fund (WWF)

Pablo Rodriguez

Board Chair, Association of Reproductive Health Professionals (ARHP)

Philip Rubin

CEO, Haskins Laboratories

Jean Sachs

Executive Director, Living Beyond Breast Cancer

William Schlesinger

President, Cary Institute Of Ecosystem Studies; Past President, Ecological Society of America

Eugenie Scott

Executive Director, National Center for Science Education

John Seager

President & CEO, Population Connection

Michael Seiden

President & CEO, Fox Chase Cancer Center

Wayne Shields

President & CEO, Association of Reproductive Health Professionals (ARHP)

Maxine Singer

President Emerita, Carnegie Institution of Washington; National Medal of Science, 1992; Public Welfare Medal of the National Academy of Sciences, 2007

Jack Solomon

Chairman, Chemical Industry Vision2020 Technology Partnership,  an industry-led collaborative process to accelerate innovation and technology development in the chemical industry

Susan Solomon

CEO, New York Stem Cell Foundation

Roy Speckhardt

Executive Director, American Humanist Association

Will Steger

President, Will Steger Foundation; Polar Explorer and developer of the Global Warming 101 Initiative

Bruce Stillman

President, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Lesley Stone

Executive Director, Scientists and Engineers for America

Tina Straley

Executive Director, Mathematical Association Of America

Mark Sykes

Director, Planetary Science Institute

Stephen Tang

President & CEO, University City Science Center

Rebecca Taylor

Senior Vice President, The National Center For Manfuacturing Sciences

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

Toufic Hakim

Executive Officer, American Association of Physics Teachers

Bonnie Vandorn

Executive Director, Association Of Science-Technology Centers

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

Charles Vest

President, National Academy of Engineering

Regina Vidaver

Executive Director, National Lung Cancer Partnership

Cynthia Volkert

President, Materials Research Society

Thomas Wallsten

President Emeritus, Federation of Behavioral, Psychological, & Cognitive Sciences; Professor and Chair in the Department of Psychology, University of Maryland

Barbara Wanchisen

Executive Director, Federation of Behavioral, Psychological, & Cognitive Sciences

Kevin Ward

Executive Director, Aspen Science Center

Ronald Wasserstein

Executive Director, American Statistical Association

Geoffrey West

President, Santa Fe Institute, Time 100 list of the 100 most influential people of 2006

Rosanne White

Executive Director, Technology Student Association (TSA)

Jonathan Wiener

President, Society for Risk Analysis; Perkins Professor of Law & Environmental Policy, Duke University

Ronnie Wilkins

Executive Director, American College Of Neuropsychopharmacology

Deborah Wince-Smith

President, Council on Competitiveness

Dennis Wint

President & CEO, The Franklin Institute Science Museum

Mary Ann Wolf

Executive Director, State Educational Technology Directors Association

David Woodland

President & Director, Trudeau Institute

Andrew Wyrobek

President, Environmental Mutagen Society

Leann Yoder

Executive Director, Junior Engineering Technology Society

Lorelle Young

President, U.S. Metric Association

Robert Yu

President, American Society Of Neurochemistry; Professor And Director, Medical College Of Georgia

Sam Zamrik

President, American Society Of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)

   

College and University Presidents

 
 

John Anderson

President, Illinois Institute Of Technology

Joseph Aoun

President, Northeastern University

Reginald Avery

President, Coppin State University

Lawrence Bacow

President, Tufts University

Warren Baker

President, California Polytechnic State University

Charles Bantz

Chancellor, IUPUI

Jill Beck

President, Lawrence University

Richard Berman

President, Manhattanville College

Henry Bienen

President, Northwestern University

Robert Birgeneau

Chancellor, University of California, Berkeley

Lee Bollinger

President, Columbia University

Leon Botstein

President, Bard College

David Boren

President, University Of Oklahoma

Alfred Bloom

President, Swarthmore College

Richard Brodhead

President, Duke University

William Brody

President, Johns Hopkins University

Earl Brooks II

President, Tri-State University

Robert Bruininks

President, University of Minnesota; Chair, National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges

Nancy Cantor

Chancellor and President, Syracuse University

Robert Caret

President, Towson University

Wayne Clough

President, Georgia Institute of Technology

Jean-Lou Chameau

President, California Institute of Technology

Carol Christ

President, Smith College

Jared Cohon

President, Carnegie Mellon University

Susan Cole

President, Montclair State University

Richard Cook

President, Allegheny College

Michael Crow

President, Arizona State University

David Daniel

President, University of Texas at Dallas

William Destler

President, Rochester Institute Of Technology

John Dunn

President, Western Michigan University

William Durden

President, Dickinson College

Daniel Elsener

President, Marian College

Stephen Emerson

President, Haverford College

Mark Emmert

President, University Of Washington

Drew Gilpin Faust

President, Harvard University

John Fry

President, Franklin & Marshall College

Geoff Gamble

President, Montana State University

Alice Gast

President, Lehigh University

Gregory Geoffroy

President, Iowa State University

Philip Gerbino

President, University of the Sciences in Philadelphia

Jonathan Gibralter

President, Frostburg State University

Amy Gutmann

President, University Of Pennsylvania

Dianne Harrison

President, California State University, Monterey Bay

Ann Weaver Hart

President, Temple University

Randy Helm

President, Muhlenberg College

John Hennessy

President, Stanford University

Richard Herman

Chancellor, University Of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Susan Hockfield

President, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology

Freeman Hrabowski

President, University Of Maryland, Baltimore County

Mark Huddleston

President, University Of New Hampshire

Shirley Ann Jackson

President, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; former Chair, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (1995-1999)

Rev. John Jenkins

President, University of Notre Dame

Albert Karnig

President, California State University, San Bernardino

Don Kassing

President, San Jose State University

Bob Kerrey

President, The New School; Former Governor and U.S. Senator from Nebraska

Neil Kerwin

President, American University

William Kirwan

Chancellor, University System of Maryland

Maria Klawe

President, Harvey Mudd College

Marvin Krislov

President, Oberlin College

Sister Elise Kriss

President, University Of Saint Francis

Timothy Lannon

President, Saint Joseph's University

Karen Lawrence

President, Sarah Lawrence College

Stan Liberty

President, Kettering University

Sally Mason

President, University of Iowa

Richard McCormick

President, Rutgers, The State University Of New Jersey

Roderick McDavis

President, Ohio University

Michael McGinniss

President, La Salle University

Mary Meehan

President, Alverno College

Alan Merten

President, George Mason University

C.D. Mote, Jr.

President, University Of Maryland

Glenn Mroz

President, Michigan Technological University

Elisabeth Muhlenfeld

President, Sweet Briar College

Robert Myers

President, Daniel Webster College

Georgia Nugent

President, Kenyon College

James Oblinger

Chancellor, North Carolina State University

Robert Oden

President, Carleton College

David Oxtoby

President, Pomona College

Constantine Papadakis

President, Drexel University

Larry Penley

Chancellor & President, Colorado State University System

Rollin Richmond

President, Humboldt State University

Michael Roth

President, Wesleyan University

Mordechai Rozanski

President, Rider University

Brian Rosenberg

President, Macalester College

John Sexton

President, New York University; Chair, New York Academy of Sciences

Donna Shalala

President, University of Miami; former U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS)

Judith Shapiro

President, Barnard College

Robert Shelton

President, The University Of Arizona

Ruth Simmons

President, Brown University

John Simpson

President, University at Buffalo, State University of New York

David Skorton

President, Cornell University

Barbara Snyder

President, Case Western Reserve University

Graham Spanier

President, Penn State University; Chairman, Association of American Universities

Deborah Stanley

President, State University of New York, Oswego

Charles Steger

President, Virginia Tech

Christopher Thomforde

President, Moravian College

Thelma Thompson

President, University of Maryland, Eastern Shore

Holden Thorpe

Chancellor, University Of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Shirley Tilghman 

President, Princeton University

Stephen Weber

President, San Diego State University

Daniel Weiss

President, Lafayette College

John Welty

President, California State University, Fresno

John White

Chancellor, University of Arkansas

Jack Wilson

President, University of Massachusetts

David Wolk

President, Castleton State College

James Wright

President, Dartmouth College

Nancy Zimpher

President, University Of Cincinnati

 

 

Arthur Hansen

President Emeritus, Purdue University, Georgia Tech, and Texas A & M University

Robert Glidden

President Emeritus, Ohio University

John Palms

President Emeritus, University Of South Carolina

Harold Shapiro

President Emeritus, Princeton University; economist and bioethicist

 

 

Academic Leaders and Leading Scientists

 
 

Frances Arnold

Dick and Barbara Dickinson Professor of Chemical Engineering and Biochemistry, CalTech

Jonathan Arons

Professor Of Astronomy and of Physics, University of California, Berkeley

Richard Bergenstal

Executive Director, International Diabetes Center; Vice President, American Diabetes Association

Mel Bernstein

Vice President for Research, University of Maryland

Donald Boesch

President, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science

Dawn Bonnell

Trustee Professor of Material Sciences; Director, Nano/Bio Interface Center University of Pennsylvania

Elizabeth Boylan

Provost and Dean of Faculty, Barnard College

Christian Brady

Dean, Schreyer Honors College, Pennsylvania State University

William Briscoe

Director, Center For Nuclear Studies, The George Washington University

Charles Brokopp

Director, Wisconsin State Lab Of Hygiene, Uninversity Of Wisconsin, Madison

James Buizer

Science Policy Advisor To The President, Arizona State University; Former Director, Climate and Society Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

John Cambier

Chair and Ida and Cecil Green Professor of Immunology, University of Colorado; Chair of Immunology, National Jewish Medical and Research Center

Arthur Caplan 

Director, Center for Bioethics, University of Pennsylvania and Chair, Department of Medical Ethics, U-Penn School of Medicine

Sean Carroll

Professor of Molecular Biology and Genetics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and author of Endless Forms Most Beautiful

Peter Cavanagh

Chair, Biomedical Engineering, Lerner Research Institute, The Cleveland Clinic

William Chameides

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

David Cheney

Director, Science And Technology Policy Program, SRI International

Carl Cowen

Professor of Mathematical Sciences, IUPUI; Former President, Mathematical Association of America (2005-2007)

Father George Coyne

Director Emeritus, Vatican Observatory

George Crabtree

Director, Materials Science & Senior Scientist, Argonne National Laboratory

Joel Cracraft

Lamont Curator and Curator-in-Charge, Department of Ornithology, American Museum of Natural History

Judith Curry

Chair, School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology  

Sandra Degen

Vice President For Research, University Of Cincinnati

Keith Devlin

Executive Director, Center for the Study of Language and Information, and Consulting Professor of Mathematics, Stanford University; commentator "The Math Guy" on NPR; author of 25 books; Chair-elect of the Mathematics Section of the AAAS

Niles Eldredge

Curator, Division of Paleontology, The American Museum of Natural History

Martha Farah

Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Natural Sciences; Director, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania

Nariman Farvardin

Senoir Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost, University of Maryland

Steve Fetter

Dean, School of Public Policy University of Maryland - College Park

Baruch Fischhoff

Howard Heinz Professor, Carnegie Mellon University; Former President, Society for Risk Analysis, Society for Judgment and Decision Making

John Fitzpatrick

Executive Director, Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology; Brewster Award

Carol Folt

Dean of the Faculty of Arts & Sciences, Dartmouth College

Henry Frisch

Professor of Physics, University of Chicago; Fellow of the American Physical Society

Elsa Garmire

Sydney E. Junkins Professor Of Engineering Science & Former Dean, Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College

John Gearhart

Professor of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Physiology, Comparative Medicine, and Population Dynamics; Director of Stem Cell Biology, McKusic-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Barry Glassner

Executive Vice Provost, University of Southern California

Irwin Goldstein

Senior Vice Chancellor For Academic Affairs, University System Of Maryland

William Greenough

Swanlund Chair and Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry, University Of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Robert Griffin

Director, Francis Bitter National Magnet Laboratory; Professor of Chemistry, MIT

Francesca Grifo

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

John Hildebrand

Regents Professor of Neurobiology, University of Arizona

Kip Hodges

Director and Foundation Professor, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University

Richard Hodges

Director, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

Gerald Holton

Research Professor of Physics and History of Science, Harvard University

John Horgan 

Director, Center for Science Writings at the Stevens Institute of Technology 

Jack Horner

Regents Professor and Curator of Paleontology, Montana State University; MacArthur Fellow

Jennie Hunter-Cevera

President, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute

Jeffrey Huskamp

Vice President and CIO, University of Maryland

John Irons

Research and Policy Director, Economic Policy Institute

Jeremy Jackson

William E. and Mary B. Ritter Professor, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Thomas Jones

Provost, Salisbury University

Steve Kelley

Director, Center for Science, Technology and Policy, University of Minnesota

Daniel Kevles

Stanley Woodward Professor Of History, Yale University

Lawrence Krauss

Director, Origins Initiative; Co-Director, Cosmology Initiative; Professor of Earth and Space Exploration and Physics, Arizona State University

Eric Lander

Director, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard; first author of the Human Genome Project; one of TIME's 100 most influential people of our time (2004)

Anthony Leiserowitz

Director, Yale Project on Climate Change

Richard Lempert

Eric Stein Distinguished University Professor of Law and Sociology, University of Michigan Law School

Peter Lepage

Dean of Arts and Sciences, Cornell University

Howard Leventhal

Board Of Governors Professor, Institute For Health, Rutgers University

Simon Levin

Director, Center for BioComplexity and Moffett Professor of Biology, Princeton University

Eugene Levy

Provost and Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University; former NASA Advisory Council; NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal recipient

Richard Lifton

Director, Yale Center for Human Genetics and Genomics; Chair, Department of Genetics, Yale School of Medicine

Jere Lipps

Curator of Paleontology and Professor of Geology, Museum of Paleontology, University of California, Berkeley

Arthur Lupia

Hal R. Varian Professor of Political Science, University of Michigan

Michael Mann

Director, Earth System Science Center, Penn State University

Bruce Margon

Vice Chancellor For Research, University of California, Santa Cruz

Jay Marx

Executive Director, Ligo Laboratory

Kenneth Miller

Professor of Biology, Brown University; co-author of Biology

William Moerner

Harry S. Mosher Professor of Chemistry and Professor, by courtesy, of Applied Physics, Stanford University; Wolf Prize in Chemistry, 2008

Michael Novacek

Provost of Science and Curator of Paleontology, American Museum of Natural History

Simon Ostrach

W. J. Austin Distinguished Professor Emeritus Of Engineering, Case Western Reserve University; former Home Secretary; one of NASA's "12 Superstars of Modern Aeronautics"

Tara O’Toole

CEO and Director, Center for Biosecurity, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

David Ozonoff

Professor and Chair Emeritus, Department of Environmental Health, Boston University School of Public Health

Kevin Padian

Professor and Curator Department of Integrative Biology and Museum of Paleontology University of California, Berkeley

Scott Page

External Faculty, Santa Fe Institute; Professor of Complex Systems, Political Science, and Economics University of Michigan

Robert Palazzo

Provost, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Bob Park

Professor of physics and former chair of the Department of Physics at the University of Maryland; author Voodoo Science

Thomas Parks

Vice President for Research and Chair, Neurobiology & Anatomy, University of Utah; Executive Director, Brain Institute

Charles Peden

Interim Director, Institute for Interfacial Catalysis, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Raymond Pierrehumbert

Lead author IPCC Third Assessment Report; Author NRC study on abrupt climate change; Louis Block Professor, University Of Chicago

Stuart Pimm

Doris Duke Professor of Conservation Ecology, Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Duke University

Steven Pinker 

Johnstone Family Professor, Department of Psychology, Harvard University; author How The Mind Works

Philip Pizzo

Dean, Stanford University School Of Medicine

Jim Plummer

Dean, Stanford University School Of Engineering

Timothy Profeta

Director, Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, Duke University

Louis Ptacek

Distinguished Professor, University of California, San Francisco; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Ronald Raines

Henry Lardy Professor of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Vera Rubin

Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie Institution of Washington; National Medal of Science, 1993

Rafael Reif

Provost, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology

Barry Rosen

Chair, Dept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Wayne State University; President, American Association of Graduate and Medical Departments of Biochemistry (AMGDB)

Alan Saltiel

Director, Life Sciences Institute, University of Michigan

Virginia Sapiro

Dean, College Of Arts And Sciences, Boston University

Barry Scherr

Provost, Dartmouth College

John Schwarz

Professor Of Theoretical Physics, CalTech; Originator of Superstring Theory

Larry Shapiro

Executive Vice Chancellor For Medical Affairs, Washington University School Of Medicine

Robert Smith

Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, University of Arkansas

James Gustave Speth

Dean, School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, Yale University

Fleur Strand

Carroll & Milton Petrie Professor Emerita, NYU; Past President, New York Academy of Sciences

Lawrence Susskind

Ford Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning, MIT

Jill Tarter

Director, Center for SETI Research

James Thomson

John D. MacArthur Professor at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, and a faculty member of the Genome Center of Wisconsin; stem cell pioneer

Kip Thorne

The Feynman Professor Of Theoretical Physics, CalTech

Maury Tigner

Laboratory Director, Cornell University

Jonathan Tucker

Senior Fellow, James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies

Meg Urry

Director, Yale Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics; Chair, Yale Physics Department

Robert Wells

Director, Center for Genome Research, Institute of Biosciences and Technology, Texas A&M University, Texas Medical Center in Houston

Tim White

Director, Human Evolution Research Center; Professor of Integrative Biology and Curator of Biological Anthropology, P.A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology

Bernard Widrow

Professor Of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University

Walter Willett

Fredrick John Stare Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition, Harvard University

Michael Witherell

Vice Chancellor For Research, University of California, Santa Barbara; Former Director, Fermilab

Paul Wolpe

Senior Fellow, Center for Bioethics; Professor, Departments of Psychiatry, Medical Ethics, and Sociology, University of Pennsylvania

Keith Yamamoto

Executive Vice Dean, School of Medicine, University Of California, San Francisco

Laurie Zoloth

Director, Bioethics, Center for Genetic Medicine Professor of Medical Ethics and Humanities Professor of Religion, Northwestern University

 

 

Business Leaders

 
 

John Abele

Founding Chairman, Boston Scientific; Board Chair, First

Jonathan Adler

President, Mediflex Surgical Products

Alfonso Alanis

Chairman & CEO, Anaclim

Irving Alne

Former President, Lockheed Aircraft International

Norm Augustine

Former CEO, Lockheed Martin Corp.; former Undersecretary of the Army and chairman of NASA Space Systems and Technical Advisory Board; Member, President George W. Bush's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology

Gordon Bell

Principal Researcher, Microsoft; 1991 National Medal of Technology

Stephen Berger

Chairman, Odyssey Investment Partners, former Executive Director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, Chairman of the Commission on Healthcare Facilities in the 21st Century

Craig Barrett

Chairman, Intel

Arne Carlson

Former Republican Governor of Minnesota; former Chairman, American Express Funds' Board of Directors

Richard Caro

CEO, CMC Associates

Charles Chidekel

Vice President, Engineering Division, Jackson & Tull Aerospace

Sanford Cohen

President, S. Cohen & Associates

Charles de Seve

President, American Economics Group

Brian Dear

Chairman & Founder, Eventful

Geoffrey Engelstein

President, Grt-Mars

Robert Facchina

CEO, Johanna Foods

David Forney

Former Vice President, Motorola; President, IEEE Information Theory Society; Adjunct Professor, MIT

Sheila Galloway

Executive Director, Merck Research Laboratories

Eric Hedman

CTO, Logic Design Corporation

John Hidley

Co-founder, Behavioral Science Technology

James Hollenhorst

Senior Director, Intellectual Property Strategy, Agilent Technologies

John Hyfantis

President, Energistics

Jake Janovetz

President, Opal Kelly

Mae Jemison

President, Biosentient Corporation; NASA Astronaut 1987-93

Thomas Kelly

CEO, Imago Scientific Instruments Corporation

Stephen Kent

President & CEO, New Track Media publishers

Elizabeth Kerr

Director of Marketing, Science & Technology, Apple Computer

Alan Kriegstein

President, ALA Scientific Instruments

Karen Lackey

Vice President, Chemistry, GlaxoSmithKline

Paul Laikind

CEO, Metabasis Therapeutics

Martin Manley

Chairman and CEO, Alibris, Inc; former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Labor

James McCarter

President And Chief Scientific Officer, Divergence

John McDonnell

Former Chairman, CEO & President, McDonnell Douglas; Board Director, Boeing

Michael McQuade

Senior Vice President, Science And Technology, United Technologies Corporation

Richard Meyers

President and CEO, GlobalTrak

Richard Mohring

CTO, Millennium Cell

Christopher Murphy III

Chairman & CEO, 1st Source Bank

Albert Nelson

COO, SC Power Systems

Peter Norvig

Director of Research, Google Inc; Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence; Former head of Computational Sciences Division at NASA Ames Research Center; Awarded NASA Exceptional Achievement Award in 2001

William Pelton

President, Phoenix Geoexploration

Frank Peters

Chairman, Board Of Governors, Tech Coast Angels

Richard Powers

President & CEO, BCI Engineers & Scientists

Nicholas Pritzker 

Chairman and CEO, Hyatt Development Corporation

Lois Quam

Managing Director, Alternative Investments, Piper Jaffray; Former CEO, Ovations, UnitedHealth Group; one of Fortune Magazine's 50 Most Powerful Women in Business 2006

Martin Rose

Vice President, Medical Affairs, Otsuka America Pharmaceutical

James Rutt

Former CEO of Network Solutions; former CTO of The Thomson Corporation; business strategist

Richard Sapienza

CEO, METSS Corporation

George Scalise

President, Semiconductor Industry Association; Member, President George W. Bush's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology; Former Executive Vice President of Operations and Chief Administrative Officer at Apple Computer; Former Chairman, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

Ben Schwegler

Vice President & Chief Scientist, Walt Disney Imagineering R&D

Shuvayu Sen

Director, Global Outcomes Research and HTA, Merck & Co.

Ian Smith

President, Freeverse

Kurt Stammberger

Vice President, Proofspace

Rajiv Tandon

CEO, Adayana

Richard Templeton

President and CEO, Texas Instruments

Mark Thompson

President, Forefront Economics

Beverly Benz Treuille

President, Huber Investment Company; Chairman of the Board, Big Brothers Big Sisters International

Sibley Verbeck

CEO, The Electric Sheep Company, one of MIT Technology Review's top 100 technology innovators worldwide under the age of 35

Cynthia Wainwright

Former Corporate Philanthropist for J.P. Morgan Chase; Community Leader

Mark Weber

President, Fermalogic

   

Editors, Writers & Other Thought & Culture Leaders

 
 

Paula Apsell

Senior Executive Producer, NOVA

Jennifer Bardi

Editor-in-Chief, The Humanist

Rudy Baum

Editor-in-Chief, Chemical & Engineering News

Gary Beach

Publisher, CIO Magazine

Timothy Beardsley

Editor-in-Chief, BioScience

Adam Bly

CEO and Editor-in-Chief, Seed Media Group

Stewart Brand

Cofounder, Global Business Network Creator of Whole Earth Catalog Author; National Book Award, 1972

David Brin

Scientist, public speaker and author; Hugo and Nebula award winner for bestselling science fiction novels

Deborah Byrd

Editor-in-Chief and founder, Earth & Sky international science radio series & website

Hank Campbell 

CEO, ScientificBlogging.com

Phillip Campbell 

Editor-in-Chief, Nature

Dwight Corrin

Moderator of the Synod of Mid America of the Presbyterian Church (USA)

Ann Druyan

CEO, Cosmos Studios; cowriter, Cosmos TV series (with Carl Sagan and others); producer, Contact

Edward Egelman

Editor-in-Chief, Biophysical Journal

Robert Eshbach

Science Teacher, Dover Area High School; 2006 AAAS Scientific Freedom and Responsibility award; 2006 NSTA Presidential Citation

Harold Evans

Author They Made America: From the Steam Engine to the Search Engine, Two Hundred Years of Innovators and of The American Century; BBC Columnist, editor at large, The Week Magazine

Rick Feinberg

Editor-in-Chief, Sky & Telescope

Ira Flatow

Executive Producer and Host, NPR's Talk of the Nation: Science Friday

Kevin Finneran

Editor-in-Chief, Issues in Science and Technology

Kendrick Frazier

Editor-in-Chief, Skeptical Inquirer

Richard Gallagher

Editor-in-Chief and Publisher, The Scientist

Wolfgang Goede

Science News Editor, P.M. Magazine (Germany); co-founder, World Federation of Science Journalists

Samuel Gubins

Editor-in-Chief and President, Annual Reviews

Evan Hansen

Editor-in-Chief, Wired.com

Stephen Harvey

Co-Lead Attorney for the Plaintiff, Pepper Hamilton LLP, in Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District

John Haught

Senior Fellow, Science & Religion, Woodstock Theological Center, Georgetown University

Mark Jannot

Editor-In-Chief, Popular Science and Science Illustrated

Leon Jaroff

Former Science Editor, Time Magazine

Donald Kennedy

Editor-in-Chief, Science

Laura Kiessling

Editor-in-Chief, ACS Chemical Biology; Hilldale Professor Of Chemistry, University Of Wisconsin-Madison; MacArthur Foundation Fellow

Michael Lemonick

Freelance Writer and Lecturer, Princeton University

Elizabeth Marincola

President & Publisher, Science News; President, Society for Science & the Public

Emilie Marcus

Editor-in-Chief, Cell

Taryn Mattice

Chaplain, Cornell University

Jennifer Miller

Science Teacher & Dept. Chair, Dover Area High School; 2006 AAAS Scientific Freedom and Responsibility award; 2006 NSTA Presidential Citation

Linda Miller

U.S. Executive Editor, Nature and Nature Journals

Jonathan Moreno

Editor-In-Chief, Science Progress; David and Lyn Silfen University Professor, University Of Pennsylvania

Rick Nelson

Editor-In-Chief, EDN Magazine

Randy Olson

Marine Ecologist, Filmmaker, Flock of Dodos

John Allen Paulos

Professor of Mathematics, Temple University; author Innumeracy

Robert Pennock

Professor of Philosophy of Science, Michigan State University; AAAS Committee on the Public Understanding of Science and Technology

Martin Peretz

Editor-in-Chief, The New Republic

Ronald Pope

Editor-in-Chief, International Journal On Packaging, Transport, Storage & Security Of Radioactive Material

John Rennie

Editor-in-Chief, Scientific American

Martin Rosenberg

Editor-in-Chief, Energybiz Magazine

Eric Rothschild

Co-Lead Attorney for the Plaintiff, Pepper Hamilton LLP, in Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District

Mark Schleifstein

Pulitzer prize-winning Environmental Reporter, New Orleans Times-Picayune

David Schoonmaker

Editor (acting), American Scientist

David Schwimmer

Actor & Director

Michael Shermer

Publisher, Skeptic Magazine

Bobby Shriver

Producer and President of RSS, Inc.

John Siceloff

Executive Producer, NOW on PBS

Martha McGeary Snider

Arts Patron; Policy Advisor, Arts And Culture, Commonwealth Of Pennsylvania

Gene Sprouse

Editor-in-Chief, American Physical Society

John Sterling

Editor-in-Chief, Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News

Robert Stern

CEO & Publisher, MedPage Today

Tum Studt

Editor-in-Chief & Publisher, R&D Magazine

Diane Sullenberger

Executive Editor, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)

Ethan Vishniac

Editor-in-Chief, Astrophysical Journal

Timothy Wheeler

President, Society Of Environmental Journalists

Jamie Wilson

Editor, Nature Immunology