[Grad-postdoc-assn] Follow-up to Mike Henry's presentation

[Mike Henry]

Thanks Paula.

Also, a few of you had asked for my slides from my presentation Friday.  
Those are attached.

Please feel free to reach out to me if I you've got any questions about 
or need some guidance in getting engaged in science policy.   (I've 
heard from a few of you already, which is great.)  UCAR government 
affairs exists in part as a resource to help you navigate these 
opportunities and challenges.

Best,
Mike


-- 

Michael S. Henry

Manager of Government Affairs
President's Office

University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR)

mhenry at ucar.edu <about:blankmhenry at ucar.edu>

303.497.2108 / C: 303.362.3731

UCAR President's Office

P.O. Box 3000

Boulder, CO 80307





On 11/13/2012 2:20 PM, Paula Fisher wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> 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.
>
>
>         Congressional Visits Days
>
> http://setcvd.org/
>
> Alex Jahn participated in Congressional Visits Days.  Her write-up 
> appears in the the November 2011 Newsletter:
> http://www.asp.ucar.edu/asp_update/11/November-Newsletter.pdf
>
>
>         AMS Summer Policy Colloquium
>
> http://www.ametsoc.org/atmospolicy/spc/index.html
>
> Shannon McNeeley wrote an article about her experience at the summer 
> policy colloquium here:
> http://www.asp.ucar.edu/asp_update/10/newsletter-August2010.pdf
>
>
>         AAAS Science & Tehcnology Policy Fellowship
>
> Deadline is December 5th for the fellowship
> http://fellowships.aaas.org/
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: 	Re: Mike Henry presentation for the post-docs this afternoon
> Date: 	Sat, 10 Nov 2012 13:32:29 -0700
> From: 	Mike Henry <mhenry at ucar.edu>
> To: 	Paula Fisher <paulad at ucar.edu>
> CC: 	Scott Rayder <rayder at ucar.edu>
>
>
>
> Hi Paula,
>
> I have a quick follow-up & clarification for the post docs.  Would you 
> mind sending this information along to them?:
>
> "Hi all,
>
> 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.
>
> 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!
>
> Mike
>
>> **Congress Loses GOP Science Supporters But Gains Back a Physicist*. *
>> 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 
>> Golden Goose Awards 
>> <http://app.aaas-science.org/e/er?s=1906&lid=20474&elq=c3e824610c7d4d7ca01187e68b127cf4>. 
>> 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 Science Coalition 
>> <http://app.aaas-science.org/e/er?s=1906&lid=23722&elq=c3e824610c7d4d7ca01187e68b127cf4>. 
>> || 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.
>>
>
>


-- 
Michael S

Michael S. Henry

Manager of Government Affairs
President's Office

University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR)

mhenry at ucar.edu <about:blankmhenry at ucar.edu>

303.497.2108 / C: 303.362.3731

UCAR President's Office

P.O. Box 3000

Boulder, CO 80307

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