19 News Items Found
January 22, 2021
Biden Seeks to 'Refresh' America's Grand Science Strategy
"Identifying priorities is a good idea for the new administration, but it also needs to focus on growing federal funding for R&D and giving it a higher priority than it has had since the days of Apollo," said Neal Lane, senior fellow in science and technology policy.
Read more at Axios. November 30, 2020
Climate Change: Biden Set to Put Science Center Stage
“The scientific evidence has got stronger and the potential outcomes of climate change scarier,” said senior fellow Neal Lane, former U.S. presidential science adviser.
Read more here. November 8, 2020
Memo to President-Elect Biden on Science and COVID-19
Senior science and technology fellow Neal Lane co-authored a list of needed actions to quell the pandemic and restore competency and trust in federal research agencies. "The country cannot continue to bear the ad hoc, ineffective and incoherent pandemic response it has endured under Trump," wrote Lane and Roger Pielke Jr.
Read more at Nature. June 24, 2020
Diplomacy and the Race to Sequence the Human Genome
Fellow Neal Lane, former science advisor to President Clinton, recalled how the White House helped broker a truce between two teams competing to sequence the human genome.
Learn more here in Nature. June 18, 2020
Why Basic Scientific Research Matters
Senior fellow Neal Lane, former director of the National Science Foundation, traced the past, present and future of the NSF and reminded us why basic research matters.
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