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Hi all,<br>
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Below is some follow-up to Mike Henry's awesome presentation on
Friday. Mike mentioned three opportunities available to postdocs to
become a science leader in Washington. I have included the links
below. Also included is a follow-up by Mike. <br>
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<h4>Congressional Visits Days</h4>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://setcvd.org/">http://setcvd.org/</a><br>
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Alex Jahn participated in Congressional Visits Days. Her write-up
appears in the the November 2011 Newsletter:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.asp.ucar.edu/asp_update/11/November-Newsletter.pdf">http://www.asp.ucar.edu/asp_update/11/November-Newsletter.pdf</a><br>
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<h4>AMS Summer Policy Colloquium</h4>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.ametsoc.org/atmospolicy/spc/index.html">http://www.ametsoc.org/atmospolicy/spc/index.html</a><br>
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Shannon McNeeley wrote an article about her experience at the
summer policy colloquium here:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.asp.ucar.edu/asp_update/10/newsletter-August2010.pdf">http://www.asp.ucar.edu/asp_update/10/newsletter-August2010.pdf</a><br>
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<h4>AAAS Science & Tehcnology Policy Fellowship</h4>
Deadline is December 5th for the fellowship<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://fellowships.aaas.org/">http://fellowships.aaas.org/</a><br>
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<td>Re: Mike Henry presentation for the post-docs this
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<td>Mike Henry <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:mhenry@ucar.edu"><mhenry@ucar.edu></a></td>
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<td>Paula Fisher <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:paulad@ucar.edu"><paulad@ucar.edu></a></td>
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<td>Scott Rayder <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:rayder@ucar.edu"><rayder@ucar.edu></a></td>
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<div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">Hi Paula,</div>
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<div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">I have a quick
follow-up & clarification for the post docs. Would you mind
sending this information along to them?:</div>
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<div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">"Hi all,</div>
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<div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">I wanted to quickly
clarify a point from my presentation yesterday. There will be
two Ph.D. scientists in Congress as of January 2013. A Ph.D.
physicist named Bill Foster was elected to the House on Tuesday
in a district in Illinois that is home to Argonne National Lab,
doubling the number of Ph.D. scientists serving in Congress.
The other Ph.D. scientist in Congress is Rush Holt from New
Jersey, also a physicist. Additionally, there are a number of
new and currently serving Senators and Congressmen who have
undergraduate science degrees, listed in the the AAAS election
brief below. On the downside, a number of Republican defenders
of science lost their elections on Tuesday. You can see the that
list below.</div>
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<div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">Bottom line:
Scientists are significantly underrepresented in Congress. We
need more Ph.D. scientists running our country and defending
scientific values on the inside of the political process!</div>
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<div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">Mike</div>
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<p><font color="#000000"><span
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background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255,
0);"><b><strong>Congress Loses GOP
Science Supporters But Gains Back a
Physicist</strong>. </b><br>
The House doubled the number of
physicists in that chamber when former
Rep. Bill Foster (D) defeated Rep. Judy
Biggert (R) in the 11th district of
Illinois. Foster who, from 2008 to the
start of 2011, represented the district
that was home to Fermilab, decided to
run against Biggert after district lines
were redrawn. Science factored into the
race given that part of Argonne National
Lab is in the district. Biggert has
spent her seven-term congressional
career as a member of the House Science,
Space and Technology Committee and is
co-chair of the Congressional Research
& Development Caucus along with Rep.
Rush Holt (D-NJ), the other PhD
physicist in Congress. || Longtime House
Science Committee member Roscoe Bartlett
(R-MD), who holds a doctorate in
physiology, lost his bid for reelection,
as did Rep. Robert Dold (R-IL), one of
the congressional supporters of the <a
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href="http://app.aaas-science.org/e/er?s=1906&lid=20474&elq=c3e824610c7d4d7ca01187e68b127cf4">Golden
Goose Awards </a>. At press time, the
race involving Rep. Brian Bilbray
(R-CA), co-chair of the Congressional
Biomedical Research Caucus, had not been
settled, but the most recent vote count
had him trailing by a few hundred votes.
Bilbray was recently named a "champion
of science" by the <a
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href="http://app.aaas-science.org/e/er?s=1906&lid=23722&elq=c3e824610c7d4d7ca01187e68b127cf4">Science
Coalition </a>. || Rep. Jeff Flake (R)
won a tight race for Senate in Arizona
against former Surgeon General Richard
Carmona. Flake has targeted federal
research in his push for cutting
government spending. He was one of the
architects of an amendment successfully
added this year to a House
appropriations bill that would have
prohibited the National Science
Foundation from funding political
science research. || Other new members
who hold undergraduate science or
engineering degrees include Mazie K.
Hirono (D-HI) and Martin Heinrich (D-NM)
in the Senate, and Tony Cardenas (D-CA),
Alan Lowenthal (D-CA), Ted Yoho (R-FL),
Susan W. Brooks (R-IN), Thomas Massie
(R-KY), John Delaney (D-MD), Joseph P.
Kennedy III (D-MA), Brad Wenstrup
(R-OH), and Suzan DelBene (R-WA) in the
House.</span></font></p>
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