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A Message from Leslie Berlowitz, President, American Academy of Arts
and Sciences
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences is pleased to release ARISE: Advancing
Research in Science and Engineering, a white paper from the Academy's Initiative
for Science, Engineering, and Technology.
We are indebted to Chair Tom Cech and the other members of the Committee on Alternative
Models for the Federal Funding of Science noted below. With valuable input from
leaders of the key federal science and technology research agencies, members of
Congress and their staffs, academic leaders, and young faculty, the committee has
analyzed current science funding policies in order to find ways to strengthen the
impact of federal research dollars. The publication offers fresh policy recommendations
for government, university, and foundation leaders.
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.
The study committee that produced this report includes:
Thomas R. Cech, Distinguished Professor, University of Colorado-Boulder, and former President, Howard Hughes Medical Institute (Chair)
David Baltimore, Robert A. Millikan Professor of Biology and President
Emeritus, California Institute of Technology
Steven Chu, U.S. Secretary of Energy, former Director, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
France Córdova, President, Purdue University
Thomas Everhart, President Emeritus, California Institute of Technology
Richard Freeman, Herbert Ascherman Chair in Economics, Harvard
University
Susan Graham, Pehong Chen Distinguished Professor of Electrical
Engineering and Computer Science Emerita, University of California at Berkeley
David Goldston, Former Staff Director, House Science Committee
H. Robert Horvitz, David H. Koch Professor of Biology, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology
Linda Katehi, Chancellor, University of California, Davis
Peter Kim, President, Merck Research Laboratories
Neal Lane, Malcolm Gillis University Professor and Senior Fellow,
James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, Rice University
C. Dan Mote Jr., President and Glenn L. Martin Institute Professor
of Engineering, University of Maryland
Daphne Preuss, Professor of Molecular Genetics & Cell Biology,
University of Chicago, and Chief Executive Officer, Chromatin, Inc.
David Sabatini, Frederick L. Ehrman Professor of Cell Biology and
Chairman, New York University Medical Center
Randy Schekman, Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology, University
of California, Berkeley
Richard Scheller, Executive Vice President of Research, Genentech
Albert Teich, Director of Science & Policy Programs, American
Association for the Advancement of Science
Mark Wrighton, Chancellor, Washington University in St. Louis
Keith Yamamoto, Executive Vice Dean, University of California,
San Francisco, School of Medicine
Huda Zoghbi, Professor of Molecular and Human Genetics, Pediatrics,
Neurology, and Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine
Leslie Berlowitz, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
This project is part of the Academy's Initiative for Science, Engineering, and Technology.
The Initiative examines the role that science and technology play in society today,
how that role has changed, and how we can better prepare for the future. The Executive
Committee of the Initiative includes:
Charles Vest, National Academy of Engineering (Cochair)
Neal Lane, Rice University (Cochair)
Thomas R. Cech, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Marye Anne Fox, Univeristy of California at San Diego
John Hennessy, Stanford University
Shirley Malcom, American Association for the Advancement of Science
Richard Meserve, Carnegie Institution
Richard Nelson, Columbia University
Greg Papadopoulos, formerly of Sun Microsystems
Hunter Rawlings, Cornell University
Emilio Bizzi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (ex officio)
Back to the Initiative for
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