Experts in the News

“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.

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.

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.

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. 

Senior fellow Neal Lane joined other former directors of the National Science Foundation at a symposium in Washington, D.C., commemorating the agency's 70th anniversary.