tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46927596098090162252023-12-02T16:54:29.364-06:00Charles F. ManskiA website maintained by family and friends of Chuck Manski.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4692759609809016225.post-19459273085553573682019-10-13T12:05:00.004-05:002019-10-13T12:05:58.897-05:00Patient Care under Uncertainty<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><a href="https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691194738/patient-care-under-uncertainty" target="_blank"><img alt="Patient Care under Uncertainty by Charles Manski" border="0" data-original-height="973" data-original-width="640" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY-vbjDiygnygDGip45_ikUjeB98NeblkH1_ggme9tpGCmN5s7X7GFP1p4EZwErP01PRLKa6MEHqHyxN_7JEUghqzEAPoiWw4tY7lt8gp5mlAXEaFyoVPAvCceyJg8XvcQ6_Lta9_5E5g/s320/9780691194738.jpg" title="Patient Care under Uncertainty" width="210" /></a></span></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691194738/patient-care-under-uncertainty" target="_blank">Princeton University Press, 2019</a></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<div style="text-align: left;">
Charles F. Manski</div>
Princeton University Press<a href="https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691194738/patient-care-under-uncertainty"><br /></a>Price: $39.95 / £34.00<div style="text-align: left;">
ISBN: 9780691194738</div>
<div>
Published: 09/09/2019<div style="text-align: left;">
Pages: 184</div>
<div>
<div>
<br />"Although uncertainty is a common element of patient care, it has largely been overlooked in research on evidence-based medicine. <i><a href="https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691194738/patient-care-under-uncertainty" target="_blank">Patient Care under Uncertainty</a></i> strives to correct this glaring omission. Applying the tools of economics to medical decision making, Charles Manski shows how uncertainty influences every stage, from risk analysis to treatment, and how this can be reasonably confronted.<br /><br />In the language of econometrics, uncertainty refers to the inadequacy of available evidence and knowledge to yield accurate information on outcomes. In the context of health care, a common example is a choice between periodic surveillance or aggressive treatment of patients at risk for a potential disease, such as women prone to breast cancer. While these choices make use of data analysis, Manski demonstrates how statistical imprecision and identification problems often undermine clinical research and practice. Reviewing prevailing practices in contemporary medicine, he discusses the controversy regarding whether clinicians should adhere to evidence-based guidelines or exercise their own judgment. He also critiques the wishful extrapolation of research findings from randomized trials to clinical practice. Exploring ways to make more sensible judgments with available data, to credibly use evidence, and to better train clinicians, Manski helps practitioners and patients face uncertainties honestly. He concludes by examining patient care from a public health perspective and the management of uncertainty in drug approvals.<br /><br />Rigorously interrogating current practices in medicine, <i><a href="https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691194738/patient-care-under-uncertainty" target="_blank">Patient Care under Uncertainty</a></i> explains why predictability in the field has been limited and furnishes criteria for more cogent steps forward."</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4692759609809016225.post-87874875275620363172018-10-01T00:10:00.000-05:002018-10-08T01:33:56.055-05:001000+ members of National Academy of Sciences sign "Statement to Restore Science-Based Policy"<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div style="text-align: center;">
SCIENTISTS FOR SCIENCE-BASED POLICY </div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<a href="https://scientistsforsciencebasedpolicy.org/" target="_blank">https://scientistsforsciencebasedpolicy.org/ </a></div>
<div class="widget widget-content widget-content-content-6" id="a8ec7897-b745-445a-82dd-42a2b9821b79">
<br />
<br />
<section class="x-el x-el-section px_-text-transform-uppercase px_-bc-rgb255__255__255 px_-pt-80px px_-pb-80px px_-ff-_Archivo_Black___arial__sans-serif px_-fs-14 _mdpx_-fs-14 _lgpx_-fs-14 x-d-ux" data-ux="Section"><div class="x-el x-el-div px_-text-transform-uppercase px_-ml-auto px_-mr-auto px_-pl-20px px_-pr-20px px_-max-width-100P px_-ff-_Archivo_Black___arial__sans-serif px_-fs-14 _smpx_-w-728px _mdpx_-w-984px _mdpx_-fs-14 _lgpx_-w-1160px _lgpx_-fs-14 x-d-ux" data-ux="Container">
<h2 class="x-el x-el-h2 px_-text-transform-uppercase px_-overflow-wrap-break-word px_-word-wrap-break-word px_-word-break-break-word px_-fs-29 px_-c-rgb60__60__60 px_-fw-400 px_-lh-1p4 px_-ml-0 px_-mr-0 px_-mt-0 px_-mb-40px px_-ff-_Archivo_Black___arial__sans-serif px_-overflow-hidden px_-text-align-center _mdpx_-text-align-center _mdpx_-fs-36 _lgpx_-fs-39 x-d-ux x-d-aid x-d-route" data-aid="CONTENT_SECTION_TITLE_RENDERED" data-route="sectionTitle" data-ux="SectionHeading">
Statement to Restore Science-Based Policy in Government </h2>
<div class="x-el x-el-div px_-text-transform-uppercase px_-d-flex px_-box-sizing-border-box px_-flex-direction-row px_-flex-wrap-wrap px_-m-0_-10px_0 px_-text-align-left px_-justify-content-center px_-ff-_Archivo_Black___arial__sans-serif px_-fs-14 _smpx_-m-0_-20px_0 _mdpx_-fs-14 _lgpx_-fs-14 x-d-ux" data-ux="Grid">
<div class="x-el x-el-div px_-text-transform-uppercase px_-box-sizing-border-box px_-flex-grow-1 px_-flex-shrink-1 px_-flex-basis-100P px_-p-0_10px_0 px_-max-width-100P px_-order-1 px_-ff-_Archivo_Black___arial__sans-serif px_-fs-14 _smpx_-p-0_20px_0 _smpx_-flex-basis-83p33333333333334P _smpx_-max-width-83p33333333333334P _mdpx_-flex-basis-66p66666666666666P _mdpx_-max-width-66p66666666666666P _mdpx_-order-0 _mdpx_-fs-14 _lgpx_-fs-14 x-d-ux" data-ux="GridCell">
<div class="x-el x-el-div x-el px_-text-transform-uppercase px_-d-flex px_-flex-direction-column px__CA__nth-childn-mb-20px px___CA__last-child-mb-0__important px_-justify-content-center px_-text-align-left px_-ff-_Archivo_Black___arial__sans-serif px_-fs-14 _mdpx_-fs-14 _lgpx_-fs-14 x-d-ux px_-text-transform-uppercase px_-ff-_Archivo_Black___arial__sans-serif px_-fs-14 _mdpx_-fs-14 _lgpx_-fs-14 x-d-ux" data-ux="ContentBasic">
<h4 class="x-el x-el-h4 px_-text-transform-none px_-overflow-wrap-break-word px_-word-wrap-break-word px_-word-break-break-word px_-fs-20 px_-c-rgb27__27__27 px_-fw-400 px_-lh-1p25 px_-ml-0 px_-mr-0 px_-mt-0 px_-mb-0 px_-ff-_Montserrat___arial__sans-serif _mdpx_-fs-22 _lgpx_-fs-22 x-d-ux x-d-aid x-d-route" data-aid="CONTENT_MEDIA_HEADLINE1_RENDERED" data-route="mediaHeadline1" data-ux="ContentHeading">
By Concerned Members of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences</h4>
<div class="x-el x-el-p px_-text-transform-none px_-overflow-wrap-break-word px_-word-wrap-break-word px_-word-break-break-word px_-c-rgb94__94__94 px_-fs-16 px_-fw-400 px_-lh-1p5 px_-mt-0 px_-mb-0 px_-ff-_Montserrat___arial__sans-serif px__CA_p_CA_ol-text-align-left px__CA_p_CA_ol-d-inline-block px__CA_p_CA_ol-pl-1p3em px__CA_p_CA_ol-ml-30px px__CA_p_CA_ol-mr-30px px__CA_p_CA_ul-text-align-left px__CA_p_CA_ul-d-inline-block px__CA_p_CA_ul-pl-1p3em px__CA_p_CA_ul-ml-30px px__CA_p_CA_ul-mr-30px px__CA_ul-text-align-left px__CA_ul-d-inline-block px__CA_ul-pl-1p3em px__CA_ul-ml-30px px__CA_ul-mr-30px px__CA_ol-text-align-left px__CA_ol-d-inline-block px__CA_ol-pl-1p3em px__CA_ol-ml-30px px__CA_ol-mr-30px _mdpx_-fs-16 _lgpx_-fs-16 x-d-ux x-d-aid x-d-route x-rt" data-aid="CONTENT_MEDIA_DESCRIPTION1_RENDERED" data-route="mediaLayoutDescription1" data-ux="ContentText">
<div style="margin: 0;">
<span class="x-el x-el-span px_-text-transform-none px_-fs-unset px_-ff-_Montserrat___arial__sans-serif px_-fw-700 x-d-ux">April 2018</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin: 0;">
In
September 2016, over 375 members of the U.S. National Academy of
Sciences (NAS) signed an Open Letter calling attention to the dangers of
human-induced climate change. The letter warned that U.S. withdrawal
from the Paris climate accord would have negative consequences for the
world’s climate system and for U.S. leadership and credibility.</div>
<div style="margin: 0;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin: 0;">
In
the intervening months, these negative consequences have become more
obvious. Human-caused climate disruption is leading to suffering and
economic loss. Suffering and loss are not future hypotheticals. They are
happening now. Despite these serious negative consequences, the present
Administration has fulfilled its threat to initiate U.S. withdrawal
from the Paris climate accord. The United States is the only nation in
the world that has taken this action. </div>
<div style="margin: 0;">
<br />
<a name='more'></a><br /></div>
<div style="margin: 0;">
The
decision to withdraw is symptomatic of a larger problem: the Trump
Administration’s denigration of scientific expertise and harassment of
scientists. The dismissal of scientific evidence in policy formulation
has affected wide areas of the social, biological, environmental and
physical sciences. It has been particularly egregious in climate
science. A recent instance of this is the intention of the
Administration to assemble a “Red Team/Blue Team” to re-litigate all
aspects of climate science. Such an exercise seeks to foster the
erroneous impression of deep uncertainty concerning the reality and
seriousness of anthropogenically driven climate change.</div>
<div style="margin: 0;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin: 0;">
Scientific
evidence and research should be an important component of policymaking.
We therefore call on the Federal Government to maintain scientific
content on publicly accessible websites, to appoint qualified personnel
to positions requiring scientific expertise, to cease censorship and
intimidation of Government scientists, and to reverse the decision to
withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement.</div>
<div style="margin: 0;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin: 0;">
____________________________________________________________________</div>
<div style="margin: 0;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin: 0;">
<span class="x-el x-el-span px_-text-transform-none px_-fs-unset px_-ff-_Montserrat___arial__sans-serif px_-fw-700 x-d-ux">A list of the more than 1,000 signers follows. We are continuing to update it as others sign.</span></div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</section></div>
<div class="widget widget-content widget-content-content-6" id="49ba8a08-d6fb-40cd-bca8-c449037ec22b">
<br />
<br />
<section class="x-el x-el-section px_-text-transform-uppercase px_-bc-rgb60__60__60 px_-pt-80px px_-pb-80px px_-ff-_Archivo_Black___arial__sans-serif px_-fs-14 _mdpx_-fs-14 _lgpx_-fs-14 x-d-ux" data-ux="Section"><div class="x-el x-el-div px_-text-transform-uppercase px_-ml-auto px_-mr-auto px_-pl-20px px_-pr-20px px_-max-width-100P px_-ff-_Archivo_Black___arial__sans-serif px_-fs-14 _smpx_-w-728px _mdpx_-w-984px _mdpx_-fs-14 _lgpx_-w-1160px _lgpx_-fs-14 x-d-ux" data-ux="Container">
<h2 class="x-el x-el-h2 px_-text-transform-uppercase px_-overflow-wrap-break-word px_-word-wrap-break-word px_-word-break-break-word px_-fs-29 px_-c-rgb255__255__255 px_-fw-400 px_-lh-1p4 px_-ml-0 px_-mr-0 px_-mt-0 px_-mb-40px px_-ff-_Archivo_Black___arial__sans-serif px_-overflow-hidden px_-text-align-center _mdpx_-text-align-center _mdpx_-fs-36 _lgpx_-fs-39 x-d-ux x-d-aid x-d-route" data-aid="CONTENT_SECTION_TITLE_RENDERED" data-route="sectionTitle" data-ux="SectionHeading">
Signed by</h2>
<div class="x-el x-el-div px_-text-transform-uppercase px_-d-flex px_-box-sizing-border-box px_-flex-direction-row px_-flex-wrap-wrap px_-m-0_-10px_0 px_-text-align-left px_-justify-content-center px_-ff-_Archivo_Black___arial__sans-serif px_-fs-14 _smpx_-m-0_-20px_0 _mdpx_-fs-14 _lgpx_-fs-14 x-d-ux" data-ux="Grid">
<div class="x-el x-el-div px_-text-transform-uppercase px_-box-sizing-border-box px_-flex-grow-1 px_-flex-shrink-1 px_-flex-basis-100P px_-p-0_10px_0 px_-max-width-100P px_-order-1 px_-ff-_Archivo_Black___arial__sans-serif px_-fs-14 _smpx_-p-0_20px_0 _smpx_-flex-basis-83p33333333333334P _smpx_-max-width-83p33333333333334P _mdpx_-flex-basis-66p66666666666666P _mdpx_-max-width-66p66666666666666P _mdpx_-order-0 _mdpx_-fs-14 _lgpx_-fs-14 x-d-ux" data-ux="GridCell">
<div class="x-el x-el-div x-el px_-text-transform-uppercase px_-d-flex px_-flex-direction-column px__CA__nth-childn-mb-20px px___CA__last-child-mb-0__important px_-justify-content-center px_-text-align-left px_-ff-_Archivo_Black___arial__sans-serif px_-fs-14 _mdpx_-fs-14 _lgpx_-fs-14 x-d-ux px_-text-transform-uppercase px_-ff-_Archivo_Black___arial__sans-serif px_-fs-14 _mdpx_-fs-14 _lgpx_-fs-14 x-d-ux" data-ux="ContentBasic">
<h4 class="x-el x-el-h4 px_-text-transform-none px_-overflow-wrap-break-word px_-word-wrap-break-word px_-word-break-break-word px_-fs-20 px_-c-rgb255__255__255 px_-fw-400 px_-lh-1p25 px_-ml-0 px_-mr-0 px_-mt-0 px_-mb-0 px_-ff-_Montserrat___arial__sans-serif _mdpx_-fs-22 _lgpx_-fs-22 x-d-ux x-d-aid x-d-route" data-aid="CONTENT_MEDIA_HEADLINE1_RENDERED" data-route="mediaHeadline1" data-ux="ContentHeading">
The NAS members below signed as individuals, not on behalf of the NAS itself or their Institutions.</h4>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</section></div>
<div class="x-el x-el-p px_-text-transform-none px_-overflow-wrap-break-word px_-word-wrap-break-word px_-word-break-break-word px_-c-rgb199__199__199 px_-fs-16 px_-fw-400 px_-lh-1p5 px_-mt-0 px_-mb-0 px_-ff-_Montserrat___arial__sans-serif px__CA_p_CA_ol-text-align-left px__CA_p_CA_ol-d-inline-block px__CA_p_CA_ol-pl-1p3em px__CA_p_CA_ol-ml-30px px__CA_p_CA_ol-mr-30px px__CA_p_CA_ul-text-align-left px__CA_p_CA_ul-d-inline-block px__CA_p_CA_ul-pl-1p3em px__CA_p_CA_ul-ml-30px px__CA_p_CA_ul-mr-30px px__CA_ul-text-align-left px__CA_ul-d-inline-block px__CA_ul-pl-1p3em px__CA_ul-ml-30px px__CA_ul-mr-30px px__CA_ol-text-align-left px__CA_ol-d-inline-block px__CA_ol-pl-1p3em px__CA_ol-ml-30px px__CA_ol-mr-30px _mdpx_-fs-16 _lgpx_-fs-16 x-d-ux x-d-aid x-d-route x-rt" data-aid="ABOUT_DESCRIPTION_RENDERED0" data-route="cards/0/description" data-ux="ContentText">
<ul>
<li>Charles F. Manski, Northwestern University, and Statement Organizer</li>
<li>Benjamin D. Santer, Member, National Academy of Sciences, and Statement Organizer</li>
<li>Ray J. Weymann, Carnegie Institution for Science, and Statement Organize</li>
<li>Andreas Acrivos, Stanford University</li>
<li>Jerry Adams, University of Melbourne </li>
<li>Eric Adelberger, University of Washington</li>
<li>Edward Adelson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology</li>
<li>Gabriel Aeppli, ETH Zurich</li>
<li>Peter Agre, Johns Hopkins University</li>
<li>Huda Akil, University of Michigan</li>
<li>Bruce Alberts, University of California, San Francisco</li>
<li>Richard Aldrich, University of Texas at Austin</li>
<li>Kari Alitalo, University of Helsinki</li>
<li>Harvey Alter, National Institutes of Health</li>
<li>Jeanne Altmann, Princeton University</li>
<li>Richard M. Amasino, University of Wisconsin-Madison </li>
<li>Victor Ambros, University of Massachusetts Medical School</li>
<li>Hans C. Andersen, Stanford University</li>
<li>Phillip W. Anderson, Princeton University</li>
<li>Porter Anderson, Jr., Harvard University</li>
<li>Eva Andrei, Rutgers University</li>
<li>Nancy Andrews, Duke University</li>
<li>J. Roger P. Angel, University of Arizona</li>
<li>Luc E. Anselin, University of Chicago</li>
<li>Fred Anson, California Institute of Technology</li>
<li>Clay Armstrong, University of Pennsylvania</li>
<li>David Arnett, University of Arizona</li>
<li>Frances Arnold, California Institute of Technology</li>
<li>Richard Aslin, Haskins Laboratories and Yale University</li>
<li>Greg Asner, Carnegie Institution for Science</li>
<li>Alain Aspect, Institut d'Optique</li>
<li>David Aspnes, North Carolina State University</li>
<li>Susan Athey, Stanford University</li>
<li>Sir Michael Atiyah, University of Edinburgh</li>
<li>Tanya M. Atwater, University of California, Santa Barbara</li>
<li>Frederick Ausubel, Harvard University</li>
<li>Robert Axelrod, University of Michigan</li>
<li>Francisco Ayala, University of California, Irvine</li>
<li>George Backus, University of California, San Diego</li>
<li>Neta Bahcall, Princeton University</li>
<li>Julia Bailey-Serres, University of California, Riverside</li>
<li>Renee Baillargeon, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign</li>
<li>Steven Balbus, University of Oxford</li>
<li>Ian-Thomas Baldwin, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology</li>
<li>David Baltimore, California Institute of Technology</li>
<li>Mahzarin R. Banaji, Harvard University</li>
<li>Phil Baran, Scripps Research Institute</li>
<li>Allen Bard, University of Texas at Austin</li>
<li>Edouard Bard, Collège de France</li>
<li>Carolina Barillas-Mury, Member, National Academy of Sciences</li>
<li>Jacqueline Barton, California Institute of Technology</li>
<li>Brenda Bass, University of Utah</li>
<li>Hyman Bass, University of Michigan</li>
<li>David Baulcombe, University of Cambridge</li>
<li>Étienne-Émile Baulieu, Collège de France</li>
<li>Moungi Bawendi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology</li>
<li>Stephen Baylin, Johns Hopkins University</li>
<li>Denis Baylor, Stanford University</li>
<li>Gordon Baym, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign</li>
<li>Peter Beak, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign</li>
<li>Cynthia M. Beall, Case Western Reserve University</li>
<li>Kurt Beam, University of Colorado at Denver</li>
<li>Peter Bearman, Columbia University</li>
<li>Barry J. Beaty, Colorado State University</li>
<li>Joseph A. Beavo, University of Washington</li>
<li>Anthony Bebbington, Clark University</li>
<li>Marlene Belfort, New York State Department of Health</li>
<li>Yasmine Belkaid, National Institutes of Health</li>
<li>Stephen Bell, Massachusetts Institute of Technology</li>
<li>Michael Bender, Princeton University</li>
<li>Michael V.L. Bennett, Albert Einstein College of Medicine </li>
<li>Vann Bennett, Duke University</li>
<li>Jeffrey L. Bennetzen, University of Georgia </li>
<li>Christophe Benoist, Harvard University</li>
<li>John Bercaw, California Institute of Technology</li>
<li>David Bercovici, Yale University</li>
<li>May R. Berenbaum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign</li>
<li>Howard Berg, Harvard University</li>
<li>Joy M. Bergelson, University of Chicago</li>
<li>Robert Bergman, University of California, Berkeley</li>
<li>Dominique Bergmann, Stanford University</li>
<li>Elwyn Berlekamp, Elwyn & Jennifer Berlekamp Foundation</li>
<li>Anton Berns, Netherlands Cancer Institute</li>
<li>Kenneth Berns, University of Florida</li>
<li>Joseph Berry, Carnegie Institution for Science</li>
<li>R. Stephen Berry, University of Chicago</li>
<li>Peter Bickel, University of California, Berkeley</li>
<li>Sue Biggins, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center</li>
<li>James Birchler, University of Missouri-Columbia</li>
<li>Mina Bissell, University of California, Berkeley</li>
<li>Emilio Bizzi, Czech Academy of Sciences</li>
<li>Randolph Blake, Vanderbilt University</li>
<li>Jacques E. Blamont, Centre National d'Études Spatiales </li>
<li>Roger Blandford, Stanford University</li>
<li>Helen Blau, Stanford University</li>
<li>Spencer J. Bloch, University of Chicago</li>
<li>Steven M. Block, Stanford University</li>
<li>Barry Bloom, Harvard University</li>
<li>Lawrence Bobo, Stanford University</li>
<li>Walter Bodmer, University of Oxford</li>
<li>Felix Boehm, California Institute of Technology</li>
<li>Nancy Bonini, University of Pennsylvania</li>
<li>John C. Boothroyd, Stanford University</li>
<li>Gary Borisy, Marine Biological Laboratory</li>
<li>Piet Borst, Netherlands Cancer Institute</li>
<li>Gordon Bower, Stanford University</li>
<li>Steven Boxer, Stanford University</li>
<li>Ed A. Boyle, Massachusetts Institute of Technology</li>
<li>Susan Brantley, Pennsylvania State University</li>
<li>Daniel Branton, Member, National Academy of Sciences</li>
<li>Eugene Braunwald, Harvard University</li>
<li>Sydney Brenner, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)</li>
<li>Edouard Brezin, École Normale Supérieure</li>
<li>William B. Bridges, California Institute of Technology</li>
<li>Winslow Briggs, Carnegie Institution for Science</li>
<li>Steven P. Briggs, University of California, San Diego </li>
<li>William A. Brock, University of Wisconsin–Madison</li>
<li>Marianne Bronner, Caltech</li>
<li>Maurice Brookhart, University of Houston</li>
<li>Donald Brown, Carnegie Institution of Washington</li>
<li>James H. Brown, University of New Mexico</li>
<li>Patrick O. Brown, Stanford University School of Medicine </li>
<li>Joan S. Brugge, Harvard University</li>
<li>Axel T. Brunger, Stanford University </li>
<li>Bob B. Buchanan, University of California, Berkeley</li>
<li>Stephen L. Buchwald, Massachusetts Institute of Technology</li>
<li>James J. Bull, University of Texas at Austin</li>
<li>Douglas Burbank, University of California, Santa Barbara</li>
<li>E. Margaret Burbidge, University of California, San Diego (Emerita)</li>
<li>Adam Burrows, Princeton University</li>
<li>Cynthia Burrows, University of Utah</li>
<li>Friedrich Busse, University of Bayreuth</li>
<li>Mark A. Cane, Columbia University</li>
<li>Claude Canizares, Massachusetts Institute of Technology</li>
<li>Charles Cantor, Sequenom</li>
<li>Roberto Car, Princeton University</li>
<li>John Carlson, Yale University </li>
<li>Marian Carlson, Columbia University</li>
<li>Stephen Carpenter, University of Wisconsin-Madison </li>
<li>James C. Carrington, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center</li>
<li>Dana Carroll, University of Utah</li>
<li>Emily A. Carter, Princeton University</li>
<li>Anthony Cashmore, University of Pennsylvania</li>
<li>Donald Caspar, Florida State University</li>
<li>Juan Carlos Castilla, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile </li>
<li>William A. Catterall, University of Washington</li>
<li>Anny Cazenave, Centre National d'Études Spatiales</li>
<li>Gerardo Ceballos González, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México</li>
<li>David Ceperley, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign</li>
<li>Constance Cepko, Harvard University</li>
<li>Thure E. Cerling, University of Utah</li>
<li>Martin Chalfie, Columbia University</li>
<li>Gary Chamberlain, Harvard University</li>
<li>Moses H. W. Chan, Pennsylvania State University</li>
<li>F. Stuart Chapin, University of Alaska</li>
<li>David Charbonneau, Harvard University </li>
<li>Dorothy Cheney, University of Pennsylvania</li>
<li>Andrew Cherlin, Johns Hopkins University</li>
<li>Herman Chernoff, Harvard University</li>
<li>Raj Chetty, Stanford University</li>
<li>Roger Chevalier, University of Virginia</li>
<li>Shu Chien, University of California, San Diego</li>
<li>Francis V. Chisari, Scripps Research Institute</li>
<li>Sallie Chisholm, Massachusetts Institute of Technology</li>
<li>Alexandre Chorin, University of California, Berkeley</li>
<li>Joanne Chory, Salk Institute for Biological Studies</li>
<li>Louise Chow, University of Alabama at Birmingham</li>
<li>George Clark, Massachusetts Institute of Technology</li>
<li>William A. V. Clark, University of California, Los Angeles</li>
<li>William C. Clark, Harvard University</li>
<li>James E. Cleaver, University of California, San Francisco</li>
<li>Michael D. Coe, Yale University</li>
<li>Enrico Coen, John Innes Centre</li>
<li>John M. Coffin, Tufts University</li>
<li>Joel Cohen, Rockefeller University</li>
<li>Marshall Cohen, California Institute of Technology</li>
<li>Morrel Cohen, Rutgers University</li>
<li>Philip Cohen, University of Dundee</li>
<li>Jonathan J. Cole, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies</li>
<li>Rita R. Colwell, University of Maryland</li>
<li>Dalton Conley, Princeton University</li>
<li>Karen S. Cook, Stanford University</li>
<li>Max Dale Cooper, Emory University</li>
<li>Susan Coppersmith, University of Wisconsin-Madison</li>
<li>E. J. Corey, Harvard University</li>
<li>Robert Cousins, University of Florida</li>
<li>Richard M. Cowling, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University </li>
<li>Gerald R. Crabtree, Stanford University</li>
<li>Robert Crabtree, Yale University</li>
<li>Nancy Craig, Johns Hopkins University</li>
<li>Peter Cresswell, Yale University</li>
<li>Eileen Crimmins, University of Southern California</li>
<li>Maureen Cropper, University of Maryland</li>
<li>Paul J. Crutzen, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry </li>
<li>Christopher Cummins, Massachusetts Institute of Technology</li>
<li>Robert Curl, Jr., Rice University</li>
<li>Roy Curtiss III, University of Florida</li>
<li>Sean Cutler, University of California, Riverside </li>
<li>Jason Cyster, University of California, San Francisco</li>
<li>James Dahlberg, University of Wisconsin–Madison</li>
<li>Hongjie Dai, Stanford University</li>
<li>Gretchen Daily, Stanford University</li>
<li>Riccardo Dalla-Favera, Columbia University</li>
<li>G. Brent Dalrymple, Oregon State University </li>
<li>Yang Dan, University of California, Berkeley</li>
<li>Jeffrey L. Dangl, University of North Carolina </li>
<li>Marcetta Darensbourg, Texas A&M University</li>
<li>Seth A. Darst, Rockefeller University</li>
<li>Sir Partha Dasgupta, University of Cambridge</li>
<li>Earl W. Davie, University of Washington</li>
<li>Julian Davies, University of British Columbia</li>
<li>Mark E. Davis, California Institute of Technology</li>
<li>Russ Davis, University of California, San Diego</li>
<li>Carl de Boor, University of Wisconsin-Madison</li>
<li>Pablo Debenedetti, Princeton University</li>
<li>Ruth DeFries, Columbia University</li>
<li>William DeGrado, University of California, San Francisco</li>
<li>Stanislas Dehaene, Collège de France</li>
<li>Johann Deisenhofer, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center</li>
<li>Edward F. DeLong, University of Hawaii at Manoa</li>
<li>Arnold L. Demain, Drew University</li>
<li>Jody W. Deming, University of Washington</li>
<li>David L. Denlinger, Ohio State University</li>
<li>Scott E. Denmark, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign</li>
<li>Donald DePaolo, University of California, Berkeley</li>
<li>Ronald A. DePinho, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center</li>
<li>David DeRosier, Brandeis University</li>
<li>Stanley Deser, Brandeis University</li>
<li>Raymond Deshaies, Member, National Academy of Sciences</li>
<li>Joseph M. DeSimone, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill </li>
<li>Claude Desplan, New York University</li>
<li>Peter Diamond, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Emeritus</li>
<li>Bob Dickinson, University of Texas at Austin</li>
<li>James Dieterich, University of California, Riverside</li>
<li>David Dilcher, Indiana University</li>
<li>Ken Dill, Stony Brook University</li>
<li>Rodolfo Dirzo, Stanford University</li>
<li>Francis DiSalvo, Cornell University</li>
<li>Avinash K. Dixit, Princeton University</li>
<li>Richard Dixon, University of North Texas</li>
<li>Chris Q. Doe, University of Oregon</li>
<li>Michael J. Donoghue, Yale University </li>
<li>Russell F. Doolittle, University of California, San Diego </li>
<li>Jennifer Doudna, University of California, Berkeley</li>
<li>John E. Dowling, Harvard University</li>
<li>Bruce Draine, Princeton University</li>
<li>Robert Drennan, University of Pittsburgh</li>
<li>Alan Dressler, Carnegie Institution for Science</li>
<li>Gideon Dreyfuss, University of Pennsylvania</li>
<li>Vladimir Drinfeld, University of Chicago</li>
<li>Esther Duflo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology</li>
<li>Greg Duncan, University of California, Irvine</li>
<li>Jack Dunitz, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology</li>
<li>Jay Dunlap, Dartmouth College</li>
<li>Thomas Dunne, University of California, Santa Barbara </li>
<li>Richard Durrett, Duke University</li>
<li>Richard Easterlin, University of Southern California</li>
<li>Joseph R. Ecker, Salk Institute for Biological Studies</li>
<li>Kathryn Edin, Princeton University</li>
<li>R. Lawrence Edwards, University of Minnesota</li>
<li>James Ehleringer, University of Utah</li>
<li>Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University</li>
<li>Lawrence Einhorn, Indiana University</li>
<li>Richard Eisenberg, University of Rochester</li>
<li>Robert Eisenman, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center</li>
<li>James P. Eisenstein, California Institute of Technology</li>
<li>Stephen Elledge, Harvard University</li>
<li>Peter Ellison, Harvard University</li>
<li>Kerry A. Emanuel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology</li>
<li>Scott Emr, Cornell University</li>
<li>Paula S. England, New York University</li>
<li>S. Walter Englander, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine </li>
<li>W. Gary Ernst, Stanford University</li>
<li>Gerhard Ertl, Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science</li>
<li>Mark Estelle, University of California, San Diego</li>
<li>James A. Estes, University of California, Santa Cruz</li>
<li>Steven N. Evans, University of California, Berkeley</li>
<li>Sandra M. Faber, University of California, Santa Cruz</li>
<li>Paul Falkowski, Rutgers University</li>
<li>Michael Fayer, Stanford University</li>
<li>Douglas Fearon, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory</li>
<li>James Fearon, Stanford University</li>
<li>Nina Fedoroff, Pennsylvania State University</li>
<li>Juli Feigon, University of California, Los Angeles</li>
<li>Joseph Felsenstein, University of Washington</li>
<li>John Ferejohn, Stanford University</li>
<li>George B. Field, Harvard University</li>
<li>Robert W. Field, Massachusetts Institute of Technology</li>
<li>Stanley Fields, University of Washington</li>
<li>Alex Filippenko, University of California, Berkeley</li>
<li>Gerald R. Fink, Massachusetts Institute of Technology</li>
<li>Barbara Finlayson-Pitts, University of California, Irvine</li>
<li>Edmond H. Fischer, University of Washington</li>
<li>Daniel Fisher, Stanford University</li>
<li>Michael Fisher, University of Maryland, College Park</li>
<li>Zachary Fisk, University of California, Davis</li>
<li>Robert Fletterick, University of California, San Francisco</li>
<li>Stephen Forrest, University of Michigan</li>
<li>Donald Forsyth, Brown University</li>
<li>Eduardo Fradkin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign</li>
<li>Joachim Frank, Columbia University</li>
<li>Janet Franklin, Arizona State University</li>
<li>Michael Freeling, University of California, Berkeley</li>
<li>Katherine Freeman, Pennsylvania State University</li>
<li>Daan Frenkel, University of Cambridge</li>
<li>Perry Allen Frey, University of Wisconsin-Madison </li>
<li>Irwin Fridovich, Duke University</li>
<li>Carl Frieden, Washington University School of Medicine </li>
<li>Jerome Friedman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology</li>
<li>Uta Frith, University of London</li>
<li>Ying-Hui Fu, University of California, San Francisco</li>
<li>Drew Fudenberg, Massachusetts Institute of Technology</li>
<li>Margaret T. Fuller, Stanford University</li>
<li>William Fulton, University of Michigan</li>
<li>Edwin Furshpan, Harvard University</li>
<li>Douglas J. Futuyma, Stony Brook University </li>
<li>Mary Gaillard, University of California, Berkeley</li>
<li>Jorge Galan, Yale University</li>
<li>Joseph Gall, Carnegie Institution of Washington</li>
<li>Charles R. Gallistel, Rutgers University</li>
<li>Elisabeth Gantt, University of Maryland, College Park</li>
<li>Chris Garrett, University of Victoria </li>
<li>T. H. Geballe, Stanford University</li>
<li>E. Peter Geiduschek, University of California, San Diego</li>
<li>Wilson Geisler, University of Texas at Austin</li>
<li>Samuel H. Gellman, University of Wisconsin</li>
<li>Susan Gelman, University of Michigan</li>
<li>Donald Geman, Johns Hopkins University</li>
<li>Howard Georgi, Harvard University</li>
<li>Charles Gilbert, Rockefeller University</li>
<li>Robert Glaeser, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory</li>
<li>Sheldon Glashow, Boston University</li>
<li>Roy Glauber, Harvard University</li>
<li>Peter H. Gleick, Pacific Institute </li>
<li>Sharon Glotzer, University of Michigan</li>
<li>Alfred Goldberg, Harvard University</li>
<li>Karen I. Goldberg, University of Pennsylvania</li>
<li>Michael E. Goldberg, Columbia University</li>
<li>Susan Golden, University of California, San Diego</li>
<li>Nigel Goldenfeld, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign</li>
<li>Claudia Goldin, Harvard University</li>
<li>Allen Goldman, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis</li>
<li>Peter Goldreich, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton</li>
<li>Gabriela Gonzalez, Louisiana State University</li>
<li>Michael Goodchild, University of California, Santa Barbara</li>
<li>John Goodenough, University of Texas at Austin</li>
<li>Richard Goody, Harvard University</li>
<li>Emil Gotschlich, Rockefeller University</li>
<li>Fred Gould, North Carolina State University </li>
<li>Norma Graham, Columbia University</li>
<li>Ronald L. Graham, University of California, San Diego</li>
<li>Steve Granick, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST)</li>
<li>Donald Grayson, University of Washington</li>
<li>Michael Green, University of Massachusetts Medical School</li>
<li>Rachel Green, Johns Hopkins University</li>
<li>E. Peter Greenberg, University of Washington</li>
<li>Paul Greengard, Rockefeller University </li>
<li>Iva Greenwald, Columbia University</li>
<li>Diane Griffin, Johns Hopkins University </li>
<li>Jack D. Griffith, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill </li>
<li>Benedict Gross, Harvard University</li>
<li>Carol A. Gross, University of California, San Francisco</li>
<li>David Gross, University of California, Santa Barbara</li>
<li>Alan D. Grossman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology</li>
<li>Mark Groudine, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center</li>
<li>Timothy Grove, Massachusetts Institute of Technology</li>
<li>Robert H. Grubbs, California Institute of Technology</li>
<li>Mary Lou Guerinot, Dartmouth College</li>
<li>Roger Guillemin, Salk Institute for Biological Studies</li>
<li>Sonia Guillen, Centro Mallqui</li>
<li>Jim Gunn, Princeton University</li>
<li>John Gurdon, University of Cambridge</li>
<li>Daniel A. Haber, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital </li>
<li>Christopher D. Hacon, University of Utah, Salt Lake City</li>
<li>John L. Hagan, Northwestern University </li>
<li>Peter Hagoort, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics and Radboud University </li>
<li>Beatrice Hahn, University of Pennsylvania</li>
<li>Sarah Hake, Agricultural Research Service </li>
<li>Benjamin Hall, University of Washington</li>
<li>John Hall, University of Colorado at Boulder</li>
<li>Michael Hall, University of Basel</li>
<li>Warren Hamilton, Colorado School of Mines</li>
<li>Sharon Hammes-Schiffer, Yale University</li>
<li>W. Michael Hanemann, Arizona State University</li>
<li>Jim Hansen, Columbia University</li>
<li>Lars Peter Hansen, University of Chicago</li>
<li>Susan Hanson, Clark University </li>
<li>Serge Haroche, Collège de France</li>
<li>Fiona A. Harrison, California Institute of Technology</li>
<li>Stephen Harrison, Harvard University</li>
<li>Susan P. Harrison, University of California, Davis</li>
<li>Oliver Hart, Harvard University</li>
<li>Stanley Hart, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution</li>
<li>Daniel L. Hartl, Harvard University </li>
<li>Dennis Hartmann, University of Washington</li>
<li>Leland Hartwell, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center</li>
<li>John Hartwig, University of California, Berkeley</li>
<li>Robert Haselkorn, University of Chicago</li>
<li>Trevor Hastie, Stanford University</li>
<li>Alan Hastings, University of California, Davis</li>
<li>Robert M. Hauser, University of Wisconsin-Madison </li>
<li>David Haussler, University of California, Santa Cruz</li>
<li>Kristen Hawkes, University of Utah </li>
<li>Scott Hawley, Stowers Institute for Medical Research</li>
<li>Wick C. Haxton, University of California, Berkeley</li>
<li>Sheng-Yang He, Michigan State University</li>
<li>Clayton Heathcock, University of California, Berkeley</li>
<li>Arthur Hebard, University of Florida</li>
<li>Timothy Heckman, Johns Hopkins University</li>
<li>David Heeger, New York University</li>
<li>Carl Heiles, University of California, Berkeley</li>
<li>Ari Helenius, ETH Zurich</li>
<li>Steven Henikoff, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center</li>
<li>Tina Henkin, Ohio State University</li>
<li>Lars Hernquist, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics</li>
<li>Dudley Herschbach, Harvard University</li>
<li>Daniel Herschlag, Stanford University</li>
<li>John G. Hildebrand, University of Arizona</li>
<li>Bertil Hille, University of Washington </li>
<li>David M. Hillis, University of Texas at Austin</li>
<li>Sarah Hobbie, University of Minnesota</li>
<li>Hopi E. Hoekstra, Harvard University</li>
<li>Bert Hoelldobler, Arizona State University</li>
<li>Helmut Hofer, Institute for Advanced Study</li>
<li>Joseph Hoffman, Yale University</li>
<li>Paul F. Hoffman, University of Victoria </li>
<li>Roald Hoffmann, Cornell University</li>
<li>Albrecht W. Hofmann, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry</li>
<li>Tomas Hökfelt, Karolinska Institutet </li>
<li>Frank Hole, Yale University</li>
<li>John Hopfield, Princeton University</li>
<li>Nancy H. Hopkins, Massachusetts Institute of Technology</li>
<li>Gary Horowitz, University of California, Santa Barbara</li>
<li>H. Robert Horvitz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology</li>
<li>Susan Band Horwitz, Albert Einstein College of Medicine</li>
<li>Sir Brian Hoskins, Imperial College London & University of Reading</li>
<li>Kendall Houk, University of California, Los Angeles</li>
<li>James House, University of Michigan</li>
<li>Michael Hout, New York University </li>
<li>Roger Howe, Yale University</li>
<li>Peter M. Howley, Harvard University</li>
<li>Sarah Hrdy, University of California, Davis </li>
<li>Richard Huganir, Johns Hopkins University</li>
<li>Tim Hunt, Cancer Research UK</li>
<li>David Huse, Princeton University</li>
<li>John Hutchinson, Harvard University</li>
<li>Clyde A. Hutchison III, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill</li>
<li>James Hynes, University of Colorado Boulder</li>
<li>Richard Hynes, Massachusetts Institute of Technology</li>
<li>Joseph Incandela, University of California, Santa Barbara</li>
<li>Ehud Y. Isacoff, University of California, Berkeley</li>
<li>Ralph Isberg, Tufts University</li>
<li>Kurt Isselbacher, Harvard University</li>
<li>David Jablonski, University of Chicago</li>
<li>Matthew Jackson, Stanford University</li>
<li>Christine Jacobs-Wagner, Yale University</li>
<li>William Jacobs, Jr., Albert Einstein College of Medicine</li>
<li>Eric Jacobsen, Harvard University</li>
<li>Rudolf Jaenisch, Massachusetts Institute of Technology</li>
<li>Reinhard Jahn, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry</li>
<li>Rakesh K. Jain, Harvard University</li>
<li>Anthony James, University of California, Irvine</li>
<li>Daniel H. Janzen, University of Pennsylvania </li>
<li>Christopher S. Jencks, Harvard University </li>
<li>Klavs Jensen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology</li>
<li>David C. Jewitt, University of California, Los Angeles</li>
<li>Alexander Johnson, University of California, San Francisco</li>
<li>J. R. Jokipii, University of Arizona</li>
<li>Jiri Jonas, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign</li>
<li>Jonathan D.G. Jones, University of East Anglia</li>
<li>Peter Jones, Van Andel Research Institute</li>
<li>Michael I. Jordan, University of California, Berkeley</li>
<li>Tom Jordan, University of Southern California</li>
<li>V. Craig Jordan, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center</li>
<li>Jean Jouzel, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climate et de l'Environnement</li>
<li>H. Ronald Kaback, University of California, Los Angeles</li>
<li>Thomas Kailath, Stanford University </li>
<li>A. Dale Kaiser, Stanford University</li>
<li>Vicky Kalogera, Northwestern University</li>
<li>Nancy Kanwisher, Massachusetts Institute of Technology</li>
<li>David Kaplan, University of Washington</li>
<li>Peter M. Kareiva, University of California, Los Angeles</li>
<li>Michael Karin, University of California, San Diego</li>
<li>David Karl, University of Hawaii at Manoa</li>
<li>Arthur Karlin, Columbia University</li>
<li>Richard Karp, University of California, Berkeley</li>
<li>Harvey Karten, Professor Emeritus, University of California, San Diego</li>
<li>Victoria Kaspi, McGill University</li>
<li>Michael Kastan, Duke University</li>
<li>James F. Kasting, Pennsylvania State University</li>
<li>Lawrence Katz, Harvard University</li>
<li>Guinevere Kauffmann, Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics</li>
<li>Thomas Kaufman, Indiana University</li>
<li>Paul Kay, International Computer Science Institute </li>
<li>Steve A. Kay, University of Southern California</li>
<li>Haig H. Kazazian, Jr., Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine</li>
<li>Kenneth Kellermann, National Radio Astronomy Observatory</li>
<li>Carlos E. Kenig, University of Chicago</li>
<li>Donald Kennedy, Stanford University</li>
<li>Charles Kennel, University of California, San Diego</li>
<li>James Kennett, University of California, Santa Barbara</li>
<li>Robert Keohane, Princeton University</li>
<li>Allen Kerr, University of Adelaide</li>
<li>Wolfgang Ketterle, Massachusetts Institute of Technology</li>
<li>Gurdev S. Khush, University of California, Davis </li>
<li>Margaret G. Kidwell, University of Arizona</li>
<li>Susan W. Kieffer, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign</li>
<li>Laura L. Kiessling, University of Wisconsin–Madison</li>
<li>Peter S. Kim, Stanford University</li>
<li>Judith Kimble, University of Wisconsin–Madison</li>
<li>Donald R. Kinder, University of Michigan</li>
<li>Margaret Galland Kivelson, University of California, Los Angeles</li>
<li>Steven Kivelson, Stanford University</li>
<li>Dan Kleppner, Massachusetts Institute of Technology</li>
<li>Steven Kliewer, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center</li>
<li>Catherine L. Kling, Iowa State University</li>
<li>Andrew Knoll, Harvard University</li>
<li>Eric I. Knudsen, Stanford University School of Medicine</li>
<li>David Kohlstedt, University of Minnesota</li>
<li>Joseph J. Kohn, Princeton University</li>
<li>Eugene V. Koonin, National Institutes of Health</li>
<li>Edward Korn, National Institutes of Health</li>
<li>Sir Hans Kornberg, Boston University </li>
<li>Stuart Kornfeld, Washington University</li>
<li>Douglas Koshland, University of California, Berkeley</li>
<li>Conrad Kottak, University of Michigan</li>
<li>Edward A. Kravitz, Harvard University</li>
<li>John Krebs, University of Oxford</li>
<li>Anne Krueger, Johns Hopkins University</li>
<li>Shrinivas Kulkarni, California Institute of Technology</li>
<li>Louis Kunkel, Harvard University</li>
<li>Mitzi Kuroda, Harvard University</li>
<li>Christopher W. Kuzawa, Northwestern University</li>
<li>William Labov, University of Pennsylvania</li>
<li>J. Clark Lagarias, University of California, Davis </li>
<li>David Laitin, Stanford University</li>
<li>Robert Lamb, Northwestern University</li>
<li>Kurt Lambeck, Australian National University </li>
<li>Eric Lambin, Stanford University</li>
<li>Leslie Lamport, Microsoft Research</li>
<li>Barbara Landau, Johns Hopkins University</li>
<li>Lynn Landmesser, Case Western Reserve University</li>
<li>Arthur Landy, Brown University </li>
<li>Robert Langlands, Institute for Advanced Study</li>
<li>Lewis Lanier, University of California, San Francisco</li>
<li>Brian A. Larkins, University of Nebraska, Lincoln</li>
<li>Clark Larsen, Ohio State University</li>
<li>Greg Lawler, University of Chicago</li>
<li>Sir John Lawton, Former Chief Executive, UK Natural Environment Research Council</li>
<li>Thorne Lay, University of California, Santa Cruz</li>
<li>Joseph E. LeDoux, New York University</li>
<li>Ronald Lee, University of California, Berkeley</li>
<li>Sang Yup Lee, KAIST</li>
<li>Yuan Lee, Academia Sinica (Taiwan)</li>
<li>Anthony James Leggett, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign</li>
<li>Ruth Lehmann, New York University</li>
<li>Richard E. Lenski, Michigan State University </li>
<li>Estella Leopold, University of Washington</li>
<li>Willem (Pim) Levelt, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics</li>
<li>Simon Levin, Princeton University</li>
<li>Arnold J. Levine, Institute for Advanced Study</li>
<li>Beth Levine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center</li>
<li>Michael Levitt, Stanford University School of Medicine</li>
<li>Harris Lewin, University of California, Davis</li>
<li>Anne L'Huillier, Lund University</li>
<li>Wen-Hsiung Li, University of Chicago</li>
<li>Elliot Lieb, Princeton University</li>
<li>Thomas Liggett, University of California, Los Angeles</li>
<li>Gene E. Likens, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies</li>
<li>Stephen Lippard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology</li>
<li>John T. Lis, Cornell University</li>
<li>Dan Littman, New York University</li>
<li>Andrea Liu, University of Pennsylvania</li>
<li>Laszlo Lorand, Feinberg Medical School, Northwestern University</li>
<li>George Lorimer, University of Maryland, College Park</li>
<li>Jonathan B. Losos, Washington University in St. Louis</li>
<li>C. Owen Lovejoy, Kent State University </li>
<li>Jane Lubchenco, Oregon State University </li>
<li>Tom Lubensky, University of Pennsylvania</li>
<li>Karolin Luger, University of Colorado, Boulder</li>
<li>Jonathan I. Lunine, Cornell University</li>
<li>Liqun Luo, Stanford University</li>
<li>George Lusztig, Massachusetts Institute of Technology</li>
<li>Joe Lutkenhaus, University of Kansas</li>
<li>Michael Lynch, Indiana University </li>
<li>Akin Mabogunje, Foundation for Development and Environmental Initiatives </li>
<li>Glen M. MacDonald, University of California, Los Angeles</li>
<li>J. Ross MacDonald, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill</li>
<li>Trudy Mackay, North Carolina State University </li>
<li>David MacMillan, Princeton University</li>
<li>Anthony P. Mahowald, University of Chicago</li>
<li>Jitendra Malik, University of California, Berkeley</li>
<li>Thomas Mallouk, Pennsylvania State University</li>
<li>Syukuro Manabe, Princeton University</li>
<li>David Mangelsdorf, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas</li>
<li>James Manley, Columbia University</li>
<li>M. Brian Maple, University of California, San Diego</li>
<li>James G. March, Stanford University</li>
<li>Rudolph A. Marcus, California Institute of Technology</li>
<li>Joyce Marcus, University of Michigan </li>
<li>Eve Marder, Brandeis University</li>
<li>Robert Mare, University of California, Los Angeles</li>
<li>Andrew R. Marks, Columbia University</li>
<li>Michael Marletta, University of California, Berkeley</li>
<li>Pablo A. Marquet, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile</li>
<li>Susan Marqusee, University of California, Berkeley</li>
<li>Philippa Marrack, National Jewish Medical and Research Center</li>
<li>Eric Maskin, Harvard University</li>
<li>Carol A. Mason, Columbia University</li>
<li>Joan Massague, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center</li>
<li>Douglas S. Massey, Princeton University </li>
<li>John Mather, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center</li>
<li>Pamela A. Matson, Stanford University</li>
<li>Rowena G. Matthews, University of Michigan </li>
<li>Martin Matzuk, Baylor College of Medicine</li>
<li>Michel G. Mayor, University of Geneva</li>
<li>Barry Mazur, Harvard University</li>
<li>J. Andrew McCammon, University of California, San Diego</li>
<li>Bonnie J. McCay, Rutgers University</li>
<li>Susan McConnell, Stanford University</li>
<li>Frank McCormick, University of California, San Francisco</li>
<li>Richard McCray, University of Colorado</li>
<li>Ann McDermott, Columbia University</li>
<li>Dusa McDuff, Barnard College</li>
<li>Bruce S. McEwen, Rockefeller University</li>
<li>Daniel McFadden, University of California, Berkeley</li>
<li>James McGaugh, University of California, Irvine</li>
<li>Christopher McKee, University of California, Berkeley</li>
<li>Fred McLafferty, Cornell University</li>
<li>Sara McLanahan, Princeton University</li>
<li>Jim McWilliams, University of California, Los Angeles</li>
<li>David Mechanic, Rutgers University</li>
<li>Douglas Medin, Northwestern University</li>
<li>Ernesto Medina, Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research</li>
<li>Ruslan Medzhitov, Yale University</li>
<li>Jerrold Meinwald, Cornell University</li>
<li>Jerry M. Melillo, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole</li>
<li>Henry J. Melosh, Purdue University </li>
<li>David J. Meltzer, Southern Methodist University</li>
<li>Sabeeha Merchant, University of California, Los Angeles</li>
<li>N. David Mermin, Cornell University</li>
<li>Michael Merzenich, University of California, San Francisco</li>
<li>Joachim Messing, Rutgers University</li>
<li>Barbara J. Meyer, University of California, Berkeley</li>
<li>Thomas Meyer, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill</li>
<li>Yves Meyer, École Normale Superieure de Cachan</li>
<li>Hartmut Michel, Max Planck Institute for Biophysics</li>
<li>Josef Michl, University of Colorado at Boulder</li>
<li>Paul Milgrom, Stanford University</li>
<li>Louis H. Miller, National Institutes of Health</li>
<li>William H. Miller, University of California, Berkeley</li>
<li>James Mitchell, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University</li>
<li>William E. Moerner, Stanford University</li>
<li>H. Keith Moffatt, University of Cambridge</li>
<li>Harold Mooney, Stanford University</li>
<li>Patrick Moore, University of Pittsburgh</li>
<li>Jeffrey S. Moore, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign</li>
<li>Peter B. Moore, Yale University </li>
<li>James Moran, Harvard University</li>
<li>Nancy Moran, University of Texas at Austin</li>
<li>Francois M. M. Morel, Princeton University</li>
<li>M. Granger Morgan, Carnegie Mellon University</li>
<li>Shigefumi Mori, Kyoto University</li>
<li>Edvard Moser, Norwegian University of Science and Technology</li>
<li>Ellen S. Mosley-Thompson, Ohio State University</li>
<li>Bernard Moss, National Institutes of Health</li>
<li>J. Anthony Movshon, New York University</li>
<li>David Mumford, Brown University</li>
<li>Walter Munk, University of California, San Diego</li>
<li>William Murdoch, University of California, Santa Barbara</li>
<li>Catherine J. Murphy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign</li>
<li>Susan Murphy, Harvard University</li>
<li>Andrew Murray, Harvard University</li>
<li>Cherry Murray, University of California, Berkeley</li>
<li>Royce Murray, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill</li>
<li>Ramesh Narayan, Harvard University</li>
<li>June Bowman Nasrallah, Cornell University</li>
<li>Carl Nathan, Cornell University</li>
<li>Jeremy Nathans, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine </li>
<li>Ann Nelson, University of Washington</li>
<li>Eugene W. Nester, University of Washington </li>
<li>Elizabeth Neufeld, University of California, Los Angeles</li>
<li>Eviatar Nevo, University of Haifa</li>
<li>Maria New, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai</li>
<li>William T. Newsome, Stanford University</li>
<li>Kyriacos Costa Nicolaou, Scripps Research Institute</li>
<li>Risto M. Nieminen, Aalto University </li>
<li>Hiroshi Nikaido, University of California, Berkeley</li>
<li>Louis Nirenberg, New York University</li>
<li>Abraham Nitzan, University of Pennsylvania</li>
<li>William D. Nix, Stanford University</li>
<li>Krishna Niyogi, University of California, Berkeley</li>
<li>Richard P. Novick, New York University School of Medicine </li>
<li>Jodi Nunnari, University of California, Davis</li>
<li>David Nygren, University of Texas at Arlington</li>
<li>James F. O’Connell, University of Utah</li>
<li>John O'Keefe, University of London</li>
<li>Paul E. Olsen, Columbia University</li>
<li>Bert W. O'Malley, Baylor College of Medicine</li>
<li>Nai Phuan Ong, Princeton University</li>
<li>Stuart H. Orkin, Harvard University</li>
<li>Donald Ornstein, Stanford University</li>
<li>Jeremiah Ostriker, Columbia University</li>
<li>Sarah Otto, University of British Columbia</li>
<li>Larry Overman, University of California, Irvine</li>
<li>Norman R. Pace, University of Colorado </li>
<li>Ariel Pakes, Harvard University</li>
<li>Rafael Palacios, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México</li>
<li>Jeffrey D. Palmer, Indiana University</li>
<li>Richard D. Palmiter, University of Washington School of Medicine </li>
<li>Christos Papadimitriou, University of California, Berkeley</li>
<li>Mary-Lou Pardue, Massachusetts Institute of Technology</li>
<li>Giorgia Parisi, University of Rome</li>
<li>Barbara Partee, University of Massachusetts Amherst</li>
<li>Ardem Patapoutian, Scripps Research Institute</li>
<li>David Patterson, University of California, Berkeley</li>
<li>Joseph Pedlosky, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution</li>
<li>Jim Peebles, Princeton University</li>
<li>Claudio Pellegrini, University of California, Los Angeles</li>
<li>David Penny, Institute of Fundamental Sciences, Massey University </li>
<li>Norbert Perrimon, Harvard University</li>
<li>Thomas Petes, Duke University</li>
<li>Gregory A. Petsko, Brandeis University</li>
<li>Gordon Pettengill, Massachusetts Institute of Technology</li>
<li>S. George Philander, Princeton University</li>
<li>James Phillips, Rutgers University</li>
<li>William Phillips, Member, National Academy of Sciences</li>
<li>Craig Pikaard, Indiana University</li>
<li>David Pilbeam, Harvard University</li>
<li>Steven Pinker, Harvard University</li>
<li>Dolores R. Piperno, Member, National Academy of Sciences</li>
<li>Terry Plank, Columbia University</li>
<li>Stephen Plog, University of Virginia</li>
<li>E. Ward Plummer, Louisiana State University</li>
<li>Richard Scott Poethig, University of Pennsylvania</li>
<li>John Charles Polanyi, University of Toronto</li>
<li>Michael Posner, University of Oregon</li>
<li>C. Dale Poulter, University of Utah</li>
<li>Tullio Pozzan, University of Padua</li>
<li>William H. Press, University of Texas at Austin</li>
<li>Samuel Preston, University of Pennsylvania </li>
<li>T. Douglas Price, University of Wisconsin-Madison</li>
<li>John Pringle, Stanford University</li>
<li>David Pritchard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology</li>
<li>Louis John Ptacek, University of California, San Francisco</li>
<li>Peter Quail, University of California, Berkeley</li>
<li>Helen R. Quinn, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory</li>
<li>Roy Radner, New York University</li>
<li>Martin Raff, University of London</li>
<li>Natasha Raikhel, University of California, Riverside</li>
<li>Klaus Rajewsky, Max-Delbruck-Center for Molecular Medicine</li>
<li>James Randerson, University of California, Irvine</li>
<li>Anjana Rao, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology</li>
<li>Mark Ratner, Northwestern University</li>
<li>Stephen Raudenbush, University of Chicago</li>
<li>Peter H. Raven, Missouri Botanical Garden</li>
<li>A. R. Ravishankara, Colorado State University</li>
<li>Maureen E. Raymo, Columbia University</li>
<li>Martin Rees, Cambridge University</li>
<li>Peter B. Reich, University of Minnesota, St. Paul</li>
<li>Nancy Reid, University of Toronto</li>
<li>Robert A. Rescorla, University of Pennsylvania</li>
<li>Peter Rhines, University of Washington</li>
<li>Kenneth Ribet, University of California, Berkeley</li>
<li>James Rice, Harvard University</li>
<li>Stuart Rice, University of Chicago</li>
<li>Charles Rice III, Rockefeller University</li>
<li>Rebecca Richards-Kortum, Rice University</li>
<li>Jane Richardson, Duke University</li>
<li>Jennifer A. Richeson, Yale University</li>
<li>Robert E. Ricklefs, University of Missouri-St. Louis</li>
<li>Lynn M. Riddiford, University of Washington</li>
<li>George Rieke, University of Arizona</li>
<li>Marcia Rieke, University of Arizona</li>
<li>Adam Riess, Johns Hopkins University</li>
<li>Eric J. Rignot, University of California, Irvine</li>
<li>Yasuko Rikihisa, Ohio State University</li>
<li>Jasper Rine, University of California, Berkeley</li>
<li>Jeffrey Warren Roberts, Cornell University</li>
<li>Morton Roberts, National Radio Astronomy Observatory</li>
<li>R. Michael Roberts, University of Missouri</li>
<li>Gene Robinson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign</li>
<li>Ignacio J. Rodríguez-Iturbe, Princeton University</li>
<li>Henry L. Roediger, III, Washington University in St. Louis</li>
<li>Kenneth Rogoff, Harvard University</li>
<li>Bernard Roizman, University of Chicago</li>
<li>A. Kimball Romney, University of California, Irvine </li>
<li>Ranulfo Romo, National Autonomous University of Mexico</li>
<li>Lee D. Ross, Stanford University</li>
<li>Michael G. Rossmann, Purdue University </li>
<li>Alvin Roth, Stanford University</li>
<li>Lucia B. Rothman-Denes, University of Chicago</li>
<li>Rodney Rothstein, Columbia University</li>
<li>Alexander Rudensky, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center</li>
<li>Joan Ruderman, Harvard University</li>
<li>Roberta L. Rudnick, University of California, Santa Barbara</li>
<li>Erkki Ruoslahti, Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute</li>
<li>Liane Russell, Oak Ridge National Laboratory</li>
<li>Gary Ruvkun, Massachusetts General Hospital</li>
<li>Donald Saari, University of California, Irvine</li>
<li>Subir Sachdev, Harvard University</li>
<li>Roald Sagdeev, University of Maryland, College Park</li>
<li>Linda J. Saif, Ohio State University</li>
<li>Andrej Sali, University of California, San Francisco</li>
<li>Francisco Mauro Salzano, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul</li>
<li>Robert Sampson, Harvard University</li>
<li>Pedro A. Sanchez, Columbia University</li>
<li>David Sandwell, University of California, San Diego</li>
<li>Joshua R. Sanes, Harvard University </li>
<li>Robert Sauer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology</li>
<li>Charles Sawyers, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center</li>
<li>Daniel L. Schacter, Harvard University</li>
<li>David G. Schatz, Yale School of Medicine</li>
<li>Jose A. Scheinkman, Columbia University</li>
<li>Randy W. Schekman, University of California, Berkeley</li>
<li>Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research</li>
<li>Paul Schimmel, Scripps Research Institute</li>
<li>David W. Schindler, University of Alberta</li>
<li>Bill Schlesinger, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies</li>
<li>Stuart Schlossman, Harvard University</li>
<li>Dolph Schluter, University of British Columbia</li>
<li>Johanna Schmitt, University of California, Davis</li>
<li>Richard Schoen, University of California, Irvine</li>
<li>Robert J. Scholes, University of the Witwatersrand</li>
<li>William R. Schowalter, Princeton University</li>
<li>Vern L. Schramm, Albert Einstein College of Medicine </li>
<li>Gerald Schubert, University of California, Los Angeles</li>
<li>John Schwarz, California Institute of Technology</li>
<li>Frank Sciulli, Columbia University</li>
<li>John Sclater, University of California, San Diego</li>
<li>Dana S. Scott, Carnegie Mellon University</li>
<li>Matthew P. Scott, President, Carnegie Institution for Science</li>
<li>John W. Sedat, University of California, San Francisco</li>
<li>Ronald R. Sederoff, North Carolina State University </li>
<li>Paul Segall, Stanford University</li>
<li>Eric Selker, University of Oregon</li>
<li>Karen Seto, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies</li>
<li>Jeff Severinghaus, University of California, San Diego</li>
<li>Geraldine Seydoux, Johns Hopkins University</li>
<li>Robert M. Seyfarth, University of Pennsylvania</li>
<li>Irwin Shapiro, Harvard University</li>
<li>Carla J. Shatz, Stanford University</li>
<li>Peter Shearer, University of California, San Diego</li>
<li>Y. Ron Shen, University of California, Berkeley</li>
<li>Thomas Shenk, Princeton University</li>
<li>Kenneth A. Shepsle, Harvard University</li>
<li>Richard M. Shiffrin, Indiana University</li>
<li>Melvyn Shochet, University of Chicago</li>
<li>Frank Shu, University of California, San Diego</li>
<li>Gerald Shulman, Yale University</li>
<li>Robert G. Shulman, Yale University</li>
<li>L. David Sibley, Washington University in St. Louis</li>
<li>Kerry Sieh, Nanyang Technological University</li>
<li>Eric Siggia, Rockefeller University</li>
<li>Frederick Sigworth, Yale University</li>
<li>Thomas Silhavy, Princeton University</li>
<li>Daniel Simberloff, University of Tennessee, Knoxville</li>
<li>Beth Simmons, Harvard University</li>
<li>James Simons, Chairman, Simons Foundation</li>
<li>Christopher Sims, Princeton University</li>
<li>Burton H. Singer, Princeton University</li>
<li>Wolf Singer, Ernst Strungmann Institute for Neuroscience</li>
<li>Norman H. Sleep, Stanford University</li>
<li>Paul Slovic, Decision Research</li>
<li>William S. Sly, Saint Louis University</li>
<li>Hamilton O. Smith, J. Craig Venter Institute</li>
<li>Edward Solomon, Stanford University</li>
<li>Robert Solovay, University of California, Berkeley</li>
<li>Douglas Edward Soltis, University of Florida</li>
<li>Pamela S. Soltis, University of Florida </li>
<li>George Somero, Stanford University</li>
<li>Christopher Somerville, University of California, Berkeley</li>
<li>Alfred Sommer, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health</li>
<li>Dam Thanh Son, University of Chicago</li>
<li>Charles S. Spencer, American Museum of Natural History </li>
<li>David Spergel, Princeton University</li>
<li>Daniel Spielman, Yale University</li>
<li>Nicholas Spitzer, University of California, San Diego</li>
<li>James Spudich, Stanford University</li>
<li>T. N. Srinivasan, Yale University</li>
<li>Franklin W. Stahl, University of Oregon</li>
<li>Charles Stanish, Member NAS, University of South Florida.</li>
<li>Steven Stanley, University of Hawaii at Manoa</li>
<li>George Stark, Cleveland Clinic Foundation</li>
<li>Harold Stark, University of California, San Diego </li>
<li>Alexei Starobinsky, Russian Academy of Sciences</li>
<li>Charles Steidel, California Institute of Technology</li>
<li>Lawrence Steinman, Stanford University</li>
<li>Joan Steitz, Yale University</li>
<li>Thomas A. Steitz, Yale University </li>
<li>Nils Stenseth, University of Oslo</li>
<li>Paul Sternberg, California Institute of Technology</li>
<li>Saul Sternberg, University of Pennsylvania</li>
<li>J. Fraser Stoddart, Northwestern University</li>
<li>Edward Stolper, California Institute of Technology</li>
<li>Anne Stone, Arizona State University</li>
<li>Howard A. Stone, Princeton University</li>
<li>Gilbert Strang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology</li>
<li>Joan E. Strassmann, Washington University, St. Louis </li>
<li>Karen B. Strier, University of Wisconsin-Madison </li>
<li>Jack Strominger, Harvard University</li>
<li>Daniel Stroock, Massachusetts Institute of Technology</li>
<li>Gary Struhl, Columbia University</li>
<li>Kevin Struhl, Harvard University</li>
<li>Madhu Sudan, Harvard University</li>
<li>Thomas C. Südhof, Stanford University School of Medicine </li>
<li>Wesley Sundquist, University of Utah</li>
<li>Leonard Susskind, Stanford University</li>
<li>Karel Svoboda, Howard Hughes Medical Institute</li>
<li>Richard Swan, University of Chicago</li>
<li>Lynn R. Sykes, Columbia University (Emeritus)</li>
<li>Jack Szostak, Harvard University</li>
<li>Clifford J. Tabin, Harvard University</li>
<li>Joseph S. Takahashi, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center</li>
<li>Harvey Tananbaum, Member, National Academy of Sciences</li>
<li>Terence Tao, University of California, Los Angeles</li>
<li>Eva Tardos, Cornell University</li>
<li>Robert E. Tarjan, Princeton University</li>
<li>John Tate, Harvard University</li>
<li>Clifford Taubes, Harvard University</li>
<li>Joseph Taylor, Princeton University</li>
<li>Shelley Taylor, University of California, Los Angeles</li>
<li>John Terborgh, Duke University</li>
<li>Saul A. Teukolsky, Cornell University</li>
<li>Richard H. Thaler, University of Chicago</li>
<li>Mark Thiemens, University of California, San Diego</li>
<li>David Hurst Thomas, American Museum of Natural History </li>
<li>Elizabeth Thompson, University of Washington</li>
<li>Lonnie Thompson, Ohio State University</li>
<li>Gerard 't Hooft, Utrecht University</li>
<li>Kip Thorne, Member, National Academy of Sciences</li>
<li>Jeremy Thorner, University of California, Berkeley</li>
<li>Maury Tigner, Cornell University</li>
<li>Shirley Tilghman, Princeton University</li>
<li>Sarah Tishkoff, University of Pennsylvania</li>
<li>Alan Title, Lockheed Martin Corporation</li>
<li>Glauco Tocchini-Valentini, National Research Council of Italy</li>
<li>Margaret Tolbert, University of Colorado at Boulder</li>
<li>John L. Tonry, University of Hawaii at Honolulu</li>
<li>Alar Toomre, Massachusetts Institute of Technology</li>
<li>Erio Tosatti, International School for Advanced Studies</li>
<li>Scott Tremaine, Institute for Advanced Study</li>
<li>Erik Trinkaus, Washington University</li>
<li>Susan Trumbore, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry </li>
<li>James Tumlinson, Pennsylvania State University </li>
<li>Monica G. Turner, University of Wisconsin-Madison </li>
<li>Billie L. Turner, Arizona State University</li>
<li>Gina Turrigiano, Brandeis University</li>
<li>Anthony Tyson, University of California, Davis</li>
<li>Emil R. Unanue, Washington University in St. Louis</li>
<li>Leslie G. Ungerleider, National Institutes of Health</li>
<li>Joan Selverstone Valentine, University of California, Los Angeles </li>
<li>David Van Essen, Washington University in St. Louis</li>
<li>James L. Van Etten, University of Nebraska, Lincoln</li>
<li>David Vanderbilt, Rutgers University</li>
<li>Srinivasa Varadhan, New York University</li>
<li>Harold E. Varmus, Cornell University</li>
<li>Martha Vaughan, Member, National Academy of Sciences</li>
<li>Inder Verma, Salk Institute for Biological Studies</li>
<li>George Veronis, Yale University </li>
<li>Richard D. Vierstra, Washington University, St. Louis</li>
<li>Herbert Virgin IV, Washington University</li>
<li>Peter H. von Hippel, University of Oregon</li>
<li>Klaus von Klitzing, Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research</li>
<li>Leslie B. Vosshall, Rockefeller University</li>
<li>Allan Wagner, Yale University</li>
<li>Günter Paul Wagner, Yale University</li>
<li>Grace Wahba, University of Wisconsin–Madison</li>
<li>David B. Wake, University of California, Berkeley</li>
<li>David Walker, Columbia University</li>
<li>Graham Walker, Massachusetts Institute of Technology</li>
<li>John Walker, Medical Research Council</li>
<li>Diana H. Wall, Colorado State University</li>
<li>John Michael Wallace, University of Washington</li>
<li>Christopher A. Walsh, Harvard Medical School</li>
<li>Peter Walter, University of California, San Francisco</li>
<li>Brian Wandell, Stanford University</li>
<li>Stephen Warren, Emory University</li>
<li>Mary Waters, Harvard University</li>
<li>E. Bruce Watson, Member, National Academy of Sciences</li>
<li>Robert Webster, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital</li>
<li>John Weeks, University of Maryland, College Park</li>
<li>Ewald Weibel, University of Bern</li>
<li>Detlef Weigel, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology</li>
<li>Sheldon Weinbaum, City College of the City University of New York</li>
<li>Robert Weinberg, Massachusetts Institute of Technology</li>
<li>Steven Weinberg, University of Texas at Austin</li>
<li>Arthur Weiss, University of California, San Francisco</li>
<li>Rainer Weiss, Massachusetts Institute of Technology</li>
<li>Herbert Weissbach, Florida Atlantic University</li>
<li>Irving Weissman, Stanford University</li>
<li>Michael Welsh, University of Iowa</li>
<li>Zena Werb, University of California, San Francisco</li>
<li>Mary Jane West-Eberhard, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Emerita</li>
<li>Simon White, Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics</li>
<li>Steven R. White, University of California, Irvine</li>
<li>Cathy L. Whitlock, Montana State University</li>
<li>Kenneth Wiberg, Yale University</li>
<li>Benjamin Widom, Cornell University</li>
<li>Eric Wieschaus, Princeton University</li>
<li>Torsten N. Wiesel, President Emeritus, Rockefeller University</li>
<li>Polly Wiessner, University of Utah</li>
<li>Clifford Will, University of Florida</li>
<li>Eske Willerslev, University of Copenhagen</li>
<li>Ruth Williams, University of California, San Diego</li>
<li>Robert B. Wilson, Stanford University</li>
<li>Robert W. Wilson, Member, National Academy of Sciences</li>
<li>William Julius Wilson, Harvard University</li>
<li>David Wineland, Member, National Academy of Sciences</li>
<li>Fred Winston, Harvard University</li>
<li>Mark Wise, California Institute of Technology</li>
<li>Richard Witter, U.S. Department of Agriculture</li>
<li>Steven Wofsy, Harvard University</li>
<li>Richard V. Wolfenden, University of North Carolina </li>
<li>Julian Wolpert, Princeton University</li>
<li>John Wood, Member, National Academy of Sciences</li>
<li>George M. Woodwell, Woods Hole Research Center</li>
<li>Stanford E. Woosley, University of California, Santa Cruz</li>
<li>Henry Wright, University of Michigan</li>
<li>Peter Wright, Scripps Research Institute</li>
<li>Hao Wu, Harvard University</li>
<li>Carl Wunsch, Massachusetts Institute of Technology</li>
<li>Robert Wurtz, National Institutes of Health</li>
<li>Peter J. Wyllie, California Institute of Technology</li>
<li>Anastasios Xepapadeas, Athens University of Economics and Business </li>
<li>Yu Xie, Princeton University </li>
<li>Keith R. Yamamoto, University of California, San Francisco</li>
<li>Wei Yang, National Institutes of Health</li>
<li>Martin Yanofsky, University of California, San Diego</li>
<li>Horng-Tzer Yau, Harvard University</li>
<li>Jun Ye, National Institute of Standards and Technology</li>
<li>Tilahun Yilma, University of California, Davis </li>
<li>Richard Young, Massachusetts Institute of Technology</li>
<li>William Young, University of California, San Diego</li>
<li>Junying Yuan, Harvard University</li>
<li>James Zachos, University of California, Santa Cruz</li>
<li>Virginia A. Zakian, Princeton University</li>
<li>Gary Zank, University of Alabama in Huntsville</li>
<li>S. Lawrence Zipursky, University of California, Los Angeles</li>
<li>Huda Zoghbi, Baylor College of Medicine+</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4692759609809016225.post-43634127292803406592018-09-17T15:27:00.000-05:002018-10-08T01:29:08.689-05:00Charles Manski awarded honorary doctorate by Hebrew University<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<iframe width="320" height="266" class="YOUTUBE-iframe-video" data-thumbnail-src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/JroCL43gcBo/0.jpg" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/JroCL43gcBo?feature=player_embedded" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div>
<br />
SEE ALSO:<br />
<a href="http://hubog-2018.com/honorary-doctorate-recipients-2018/">http://hubog-2018.com/honorary-doctorate-recipients-2018/</a></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4692759609809016225.post-51003817962055547902018-08-28T13:05:00.000-05:002018-10-08T00:06:05.396-05:00BLOOMBERG: Advice to Researchers: Admit What You Don’t Know<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
By Mark Buchanan<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
"Research in science or medicine or economics is most valuable when it
is unbiased, with researchers honestly reporting the limitations of
their results. It’s a lot less valuable if it exaggerates what’s known,
claiming excessive certainty or precision, in an effort to win an
argument. That happens a lot, of course — researchers are only human. But
where does the problem occur most? For more than a decade, economist
Charles Manski of Northwestern University been studying the issue, which
he refers to as the “Lure of Incredible Certitude.” In a <a href="http://faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu/~cfm754/lure_of_incredible_certitude.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">recent article</a>, he suggests that it’s most prevalent in his own profession, economics." <br />
</blockquote>
READ THE REST:<br />
<a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-08-28/advice-to-researchers-admit-what-you-don-t-know" target="_blank">https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-08-28/advice-to-researchers-admit-what-you-don-t-know</a></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4692759609809016225.post-83434997056753865462018-04-24T16:07:00.000-05:002018-10-08T00:02:17.014-05:00THE NEW YORKER: America’s Top Scientists Reprimand Donald Trump (Again)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
By Carolyn Kormann <br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
"More <span data-page="page_1"></span>than five hundred and seventy members of the National Academy of Sciences <a class="ArticleBody__link___1FS03" href="https://scientistsforsciencebasedpolicy.org/" target="_blank">published a statement</a>
on Monday decrying the Trump Administration’s “denigration of
scientific expertise and harassment of scientists.” The members, who are
acting independently of the N.A.S., represent many fields (social,
biological, environmental, physical), but they note that the White
House’s “dismissal of scientific evidence” has been “particularly
egregious” in the case of climate change. They cite the Administration’s
recent effort—led by Scott Pruitt,
the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, and supported by
President Trump—to hold a “Red Team/Blue Team” debate on the validity of
global-warming research. “Such an exercise seeks to foster the
erroneous impression of deep uncertainty concerning the reality and
seriousness of anthropogenically driven climate change,” they write. . . . Benjamin
Santer, a sixty-two-year-old atmospheric scientist at the Lawrence
Livermore National Laboratory, in California, co-authored the statement
with Ray Weymann, a retired astrophysicist, and Charles Manski, an
economist at Northwestern University."</blockquote>
<br />
<b>READ THE REST HERE: </b><br />
<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/americas-top-scientists-reprimand-donald-trump-again" target="_blank">https://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/americas-top-scientists-reprimand-donald-trump-again </a></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4692759609809016225.post-84444210162025589852018-04-23T13:23:00.000-05:002018-10-08T01:24:04.123-05:00SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN: Speaking Science to Power<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
By <span itemprop="author" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><span itemprop="name">Ben Santer, Charles Manski and Ray Weymann</span></span><br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
Today, on April 23, 2018, <a href="https://scientistsforsciencebasedpolicy.org/">a statement was released</a> by 317 members of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. It calls for “<em>the
Federal Government to maintain scientific content on publicly
accessible websites, to appoint qualified personnel to positions
requiring scientific expertise, to cease censorship and intimidation of
Government scientists, and to reverse the decision to withdraw the
United States from the Paris Accord.</em>”<br />
<br />
We are the three writers and organizers of this statement. Although
our expertise is in very different areas—economics, astrophysics and
climate science—we share a common concern. It relates to the dismissal
of science and scientific understanding by the current administration.
This piece explains why we decided to write the statement, what we hope
to accomplish with its release, and how interested readers can help to
achieve the goals quoted above. </blockquote>
<span itemprop="author" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><span itemprop="name">READ THE REST:</span></span><br />
<span itemprop="author" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><span itemprop="name"><a href="https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/speaking-science-to-power/" target="_blank">https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/speaking-science-to-power/</a> </span></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4692759609809016225.post-47124083338167149752018-01-03T13:05:00.002-06:002018-01-03T13:12:24.878-06:00Opinion: Trump Administration’s attacks on science are taking a grim toll<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: #20124d;"><span style="color: white;"> Opinion article published by <i><b>The Mercury News</b></i>. </span></span></span></span></div>
<div style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: #20124d;"><span style="color: white;"><a href="https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/01/03/opinion-trump-administrations-attacks-on-science-are-taking-a-grim-toll/">https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/01/03/opinion-trump-administrations-attacks-on-science-are-taking-a-grim-toll/</a></span></span></span></span> </div>
<div class="byline" style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: #20124d;"><span style="color: white;">By <a class=" author-name" href="https://www.mercurynews.com/author/charles-f-manski/" rel="author" style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Posts by Charles F. Manski">CHARLES F. MANSKI</a>, <a class=" author-name" href="https://www.mercurynews.com/author/ben-santer/" rel="author" style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Posts by Ben Santer">BEN SANTER</a> and <a class=" author-name" href="https://www.mercurynews.com/author/ray-j-weymann/" rel="author" style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Posts by Ray J. Weymann">RAY J. WEYMANN</a> |</span></span></span></span></div>
<div class="time" style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.16667; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<br />
<span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: #20124d;"><span style="color: white;">PUBLISHED: <time datetime="2018-01-03T14:30:43+00:00" style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">January 3, 2018 at 6:30 am</time> | UPDATED: <time class="updated" datetime="2018-01-03T15:40:47+00:00" style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">January 3, 2018 at 7:40 am</time></span></span></span></span></div>
<div style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: #20124d;"><span style="color: white;">A new federal administration was installed less than a year ago. Since then, we have seen a March for Science and eloquent opinion pieces urging protection of the scientific enterprise. But the devaluing of science and harassment of scientists have only increased in severity. This should not stand.</span></span></span></span></div>
<div style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: #20124d;"><span style="color: white;">Scientific input is crucial to analysis and formulation of policy. The dismissal of scientific understanding by the current administration has affected the physical, biological, social and medical sciences.</span></span></span></span></div>
<div style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: #20124d;"><span style="color: white;">This anti-science perspective is manifest in numerous ways. Informative summaries of well-established science are removed from federal websites. Government scientists are abruptly transferred from jobs requiring their expertise to jobs that do not. Scientific advisory groups are disbanded. Severe budgetary cuts are proposed for government agencies performing important research. Unqualified individuals are appointed to government positions where scientific qualifications are essential. Key science positions at government agencies remain unfilled.</span></span></span></span></div>
<div style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: #20124d;"><span style="color: white;">The most egregious attacks have been on climate science. U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Accord leaves the U.S. isolated from the international community — the only U.N. member declining to participate in the accord. Climate scientists have been prevented from speaking at scientific conferences. Some are forbidden from using phrases affirming the reality and seriousness of human-induced climate change, or from speaking to the press about matters directly related to their research.</span></span></span></span></div>
<div style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: #20124d;"><span style="color: white;">A serious current concern is the stated intention of EPA head Scott Pruitt to assemble a “Red Team-Blue Team” exercise to re-litigate all aspects of climate science. This call for a “do-over” ignores many previous assessments of climate science by highly qualified experts.</span></span></span></span></div>
<div style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: #20124d;"><span style="color: white;">These assessments have consistently acknowledged the reality and dangers of anthropogenic climate change. By calling for a new “Red Team-Blue Team” process, Mr. Pruitt is implicitly questioning the legitimacy of all previous assessments, and seeks to foster the erroneous impression of deep uncertainty. A similar strategy was used by the tobacco industry in challenging links between smoking and cancer.</span></span></span></span></div>
<div style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: #20124d;"><span style="color: white;">How should all citizens – not just scientists – behave in this new Age of Unreason? One perspective is that we should simply continue with our normal lives. There may have been merit in this at the beginning of the Administration, when it was not clear how campaign rhetoric would translate into governance. Today, the time for strategic patience is over. Silence is complicity.</span></span></span></span></div>
<br />
<br />
<aside class="related left" style="border-bottom: 3px solid rgb(0, 144, 217); border-width: 0px 0px 3px; box-sizing: inherit; display: block; float: left; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 1.25em 1em 0px; padding: 1em 0px; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; width: 18.75em; word-spacing: 0px;"><h2 class="widget-title" data-curated-ids="" data-relation-type="automatic-primary-tag" style="border-bottom: 3px solid rgb(0, 144, 217); border-width: 0px 0px 3px; box-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: -0.03em; line-height: 1.33333; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: #20124d;"><span style="color: white;">
Related Articles</span></span></span></span></h2>
<ul style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: inherit; float: left; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; left: auto; line-height: inherit; list-style: outside none none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static; vertical-align: baseline; width: 300px;">
<li style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(225, 225, 225); border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px 0px 0.625em; padding: 0px 0px 0.625em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: #20124d;"><span style="color: white;"><a class="article-title" href="https://www.mercurynews.com/2017/12/28/trump-says-east-could-use-some-global-warming/" style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Trump says East Coast could use ‘Global Warming’"><span class="dfm-title optimizely-4971942" style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Trump says East Coast could use ‘Global Warming’</span></a></span></span></span></span></li>
<li style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(225, 225, 225); border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px 0px 0.625em; padding: 0px 0px 0.625em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: #20124d;"><span style="color: white;"><a class="article-title" href="https://www.mercurynews.com/2017/12/21/money-talks-investors-heap-pressure-onto-companies-over-climate-change/" style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Money talks: Investors heap pressure onto companies over climate change"><span class="dfm-title optimizely-4957478" style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Money talks: Investors heap pressure onto companies over climate change</span></a></span></span></span></span></li>
<li style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(225, 225, 225); border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px 0px 0.625em; padding: 0px 0px 0.625em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: #20124d;"><span style="color: white;"><a class="article-title" href="https://www.mercurynews.com/2017/12/16/new-1-billion-program-will-bring-rooftop-solar-to-california-renters/" style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="New, $1 billion program will bring rooftop solar to California renters"><span class="dfm-title optimizely-4949492" style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">New, $1 billion program for rooftop solar</span></a></span></span></span></span></li>
<li style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(225, 225, 225); border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px 0px 0.625em; padding: 0px 0px 0.625em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: #20124d;"><span style="color: white;"><a class="article-title" href="https://www.mercurynews.com/2017/12/11/judges-skeptical-of-request-to-dismiss-burdensome-childrens-climate-lawsuit/" style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="San Francisco: Judges skeptical of request to dismiss ‘burdensome’ children’s climate lawsuit"><span class="dfm-title optimizely-4940184" style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Judges skeptical of request to dismiss climate lawsuit</span></a></span></span></span></span></li>
<li style="border: 0px none; box-shadow: none; box-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: #20124d;"><span style="color: white;"><a class="article-title" href="https://www.mercurynews.com/2017/12/11/macron-trolls-trump-lures-us-climate-scientists-to-france/" style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Macron trolls Trump, lures US climate scientists to France"><span class="dfm-title optimizely-4939111" style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Macron lures US climate scientists to France</span></a></span></span></span></span></li>
</ul>
</aside><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: #20124d;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Scientists have a special responsibility to defend scientific understanding, and to advocate for the use of sound science in public policymaking. Citizens have responsibilities, too. We are not powerless. We can contact our congressional representatives. Write letters to newspapers. Become active on social media. Speak publicly about the dangers of embracing scientific ignorance. Enlist our friends and neighbors to speak out in defense of science.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
<br />
<br />
<div style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: #20124d;"><span style="color: white;">Beyond individual actions, we see a pressing need for leading scientific institutions to use their voices. Among the goals of the American Academy for the Advancement of Science is to “Promote and defend the integrity of science and its use.” It is important to support the AAAS and other organizations that share this objective.</span></span></span></span></div>
<div style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: #20124d;"><span style="color: white;">As members of the National Academy of Sciences, we particularly support the NAS mission to provide “independent, objective advice to the nation on matters related to science and technology.”</span></span></span></span></div>
<div style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: #20124d;"><span style="color: white;">In fall 2016 two of us, and two others, organized an open letter pointing out the serious consequences of U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Accord. It was signed by 377 members of the NAS. Commenting on the open letter, Neil deGrasse Tyson said: “For lawmakers to not heed the advice of esteemed scientists on matters of science, in this the 21st century, signals the beginning of the end of an informed democracy.”</span></span></span></span></div>
<div style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: #20124d;"><span style="color: white;"><i style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Charles F. Manski is the Board of Trustees Professor in Economics at Northwestern University. Ben Santer is a leading climate researcher and recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship. Ray J. Weymann is Director Emeritus of Carnegie Observatories, Carnegie Institution for Science. All are members of the National Academy of Sciences.</i></span></span></span></span></div>
</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4692759609809016225.post-88729550984002153262015-09-03T15:43:00.000-05:002015-10-09T18:47:19.389-05:00Cleveland Fed: The Media's Enormous ResponsibilityIn an exclusive interview with the Cleveland Fed, Charles Manski argues it’s not just statistical agencies that bear the “enormous responsibility” of communicating uncertainty to the public:<br />
<div>
<br />
<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="248" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/9E4ENSDw6iM" width="440"></iframe>
</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4692759609809016225.post-32238655387932509662014-12-26T18:41:00.000-06:002015-10-09T18:41:40.775-05:00Brookings Institution: Federal Budget Commentary (C-Span)Charles Manski joined a Brookings Institution Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy discussion on the challenges of the federal budget process in remarks carried on C-Span:<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.c-span.org/video/?c4519899/remarks-charles-manski">http://www.c-span.org/video/?c4519899/remarks-charles-manski</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4692759609809016225.post-56314770512566123472013-07-16T13:34:00.000-05:002015-10-09T18:46:44.713-05:00Royal Economic Society: Decisions in an Uncertain World<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="248" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/yQqQTmu7nt8" width="440"></iframe>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;"><br /></span>
There is far more uncertainty in economics and policy-making than many would have us believe, according to Professor Charles Manski of Northwestern University. <br /><br />Professor Manski was giving the Sargan Lecture at the Roya Economic Society annual conference in April 2013. The full lecture is available here: <a href="http://www.res.org.uk/view/2013conf_webcasts.html">http://www.res.org.uk/view/2013conf_webcasts.html</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4692759609809016225.post-54165715919125971182013-07-16T09:17:00.000-05:002015-10-09T18:47:40.213-05:00The British Academy: Public Policy in an Uncertain World<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="248" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/pyQAINoNxtA" width="440"></iframe>
<br />
On 27 March 2013 cemmap (The Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice, an ESRC Centre hosted at the IFS) and the British Academy Policy Centre held a lecture by Professor Charles Manski, Board of Trustees Professor in Economics at Northwestern University and an International Fellow of cemmap. <br />
<br />
Professor Manski discussed his new book Public Policy in an Uncertain World: Analysis and Decisions (Harvard University Press, 2013). In his book, he argues that society should face up to the uncertainties that attend policy formation. He observes that the current practice of policy analysis hides uncertainty, as researchers use untenable assumptions to make exact predictions of policy outcomes. Manski recommends more credible policy analysis that explicitly expresses the limits to knowledge, and he considers how policy makers can reasonably make decisions in an uncertain world.<br />
<br />
The lecture was followed by a response from Lord Gus O'Donnell, former Cabinet Secretary and Visiting Professor at the Department of Political Science and School of Public Policy, UCL. This event was chaired by Professor Andrew Chesher FBA, Professor of Economics at UCL and Director of cemmap.<br />
<br />
The lecture took place between 6pm - 7.30pm, at the British Academy, 10-11 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AH. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4692759609809016225.post-32385559177078325472011-10-08T18:28:00.000-05:002015-10-09T18:30:00.335-05:00The American Economist: Unlearning and DiscoveryCharles Manski was recently asked to write an autobiographical essay for the journal, <i>The American Economist</i>. This thoughtful retrospective, <i>Unlearning and Discovery</i>, was the result:<br />
<br />
<a href="http://faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu/~cfm754/unlearning&discovery.pdf" target="_blank">http://faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu/~cfm754/unlearning&discovery.pdf</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4692759609809016225.post-70522642302247612862010-12-25T07:17:00.000-06:002010-12-25T07:17:22.976-06:00National Academy of Sciences "InterViews"<i>The following <a href="http://www.nasonline.org/site/PageServer?pagename=INTERVIEWS_Charles_Manski">interview by the NAS' InterViews project</a> was audio recorded in early 2010.</i><br />
<br />
<br />
<div class="PageSubheading"><span class="BodyText"><b></b></span><br />
<span class="BodyText"><b><img alt="audio_icon" border="0" src="http://www.nasonline.org/images/content/pagebuilder/23565.gif" /> <span class="BodyText"><a href="http://media.nasonline.org.s3.amazonaws.com/Charles_Manski_Economics.mp3">Listen to the Interview</a> (mp3, 29 mb)<br />
(31 minutes)</span></b></span></div><br />
<blockquote>Economist Charles Manski has always been a skeptic. His refusal to take accepted views for granted led him to give up the Jewish religious training of his boyhood at 16; less than a decade later, it placed him among the pioneers of a new kind of economics, one with a more nuanced view of how people choose.<br />
<br />
Using discrete choice analysis-a mathematical method for determining how people decide between alternatives-Manski has studied issues ranging from how government grants affect a student's choice to go to college to whether drug laws actually work. He's also tackled the thorny fundamental problem of "partial identification": how does someone deciding between two courses of action know which is better, when only one outcome will ever be known? Doctors studying the effects of a choice of treatments on a group of patients, judges handing down sentences for offenders, and other decision-makers must choose one alternative without ever knowing or "identifying" the outcome of the other. Manski's research has focused on resolving this and other complicated problems of decision and expectation, always with an eye toward helping society make better choices.<br />
<i><br />
Manski is a professor of economics at Northwestern University, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2009.</i></blockquote>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4692759609809016225.post-11845026152128460322010-12-25T06:55:00.000-06:002010-12-25T06:55:51.816-06:00Adaptive Partial Drug Approval: A Health Policy ProposalFrom the<a href="http://www.bepress.com/ev/vol6/iss4/art9"> recent issue of <i>The Economists' Voice</i></a> . . . <br />
<br />
"Charles Manski of Northwestern argues that the drug approval process should be more continuous, so that patients can have access to beneficial drugs earlier and at the same time there are incentives for longer term studies than the current system produces, which could limit problems like those caused by Vioxx."<br />
<br />
<blockquote>Manski, Charles F. (2009) "Adaptive Partial Drug Approval: A Health Policy Proposal," <em>The Economists' Voice</em>: Vol. 6 : Iss. 4, Article 9. <br />
<strong>DOI:</strong> 10.2202/1553-3832.1449<br />
<strong>Available at:</strong> <a href="http://www.bepress.com/ev/vol6/iss4/art9">http://www.bepress.com/ev/vol6/iss4/art9</a> </blockquote>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0