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On June, 3, 2008, the American Academy released its white paper, ARISE: Advancing
Research In Science and Engineering, at a media briefing at the National Press
Club in Washington, DC. The report includes recommendations for government, universities,
and private foundations.
The ARISE report addresses two issues central to the vitality of America’s
research enterprise: 1) the support of early-career investigators; and 2) the encouragement
of high-risk, high-reward research. Such support and encouragement will foster a
new generation of scientists and stimulate the daring investigations that will generate
competitive advantage in a global economy.
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Thomas R. Cech (Chair, ARISE report) is President
of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, a recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry,
and an awardee of the National Medal of Science. His current research focuses on
ribozyme structure and on telomerase. In 1978 he joined the faculty of the University
of Colorado, Boulder, where he became a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator
in 1988 and Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry in 1990. He chaired
the National Academies Committee on Bridges to Independence. Elected to the National
Academy of Sciences and also awarded a lifetime professorship by the American Cancer
Society, he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 1988.
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Neal Lane is the Malcolm Gillis University Professor
at Rice University, where he is a Senior Fellow at the James A. Baker III Institute
for Public Policy and Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy. He served
as Assistant to the President for Science and Technology and Director of the White
House Office of Science and Technology Policy from 1998 to 2001, and as Director
of the National Science Foundation from 1993 to 1998. He was elected a Fellow of
the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 1995 and is a member of the Academy Council.
He cochairs the Academy’s Initiative for Science, Engineering, and Technology. He
is an active participant in, and author for, the Academy’s Reconsidering the Rules
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Keith Yamamoto is Executive Vice Dean of the School
of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), and Professor
of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology. A member of the UCSF faculty since 1976,
he has served in numerous capacities, including Chair of the Department of Cellular
and Molecular Pharmacology. His research focuses on the mechanisms of signaling
and gene regulation by intracellular receptors, which mediate the actions of several
classes of essential hormones and cellular signals. A founding editor of Molecular
Biology of the Cell, he serves on numerous editorial boards, scientific advisory
boards, and national committees. A member of the National Academy of Sciences and
the Institute of Medicine, and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement
of Science, he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in
1989.
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