Science and Technology in the National Interest Ensuring the Best Presidential and Federal Advisory Committee Science and Technology Appointments (2005) / Chapter Skim
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Appendix A Committee and Staff Biographic Information
Appendix A Committee and Staff Biographic Information
Pages 53-66
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Before his election to Congress, Porter served in the Illinois House of Repre sentatives. He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and received his undergraduate degree from Northwestern Univer sity, served in the US Army, and graduated with distinction from the University of Michigan Law School, where he was an editor of the Michigan Law Review.
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Before her DOE service, she was program manager for Research Applied to National Needs at the National Science Foundation. After her government service, Savitz served in executive positions in the private sector; she was president of Lighting Research Institute, assistant to the vice president for engineering at The Garrett Corporation, and general manager of Allied Signal Ceramic Compo nents.
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Press was also professor of geophysics at the California Institute of Technology and director of the Seismological Laboratory. He is a life member of the corporation of MIT and board member of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institu tion, the Marine Biological Laboratory, and the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute.
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Before that, he taught chemistry at the Univer sity of California, Los Angeles and Columbia University and was the director of the National Synchrotron Light Source of Brookhaven National Laboratory. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of the American Physical Society.
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At MIT, Moniz served as head of the Department of Physics and as director of the Bates Linear Accelera tor Center. His principal research contributions have been in theoretical nuclear physics, particularly in advancing nuclear reaction theory at high energy.
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He served as a consultant to the Food and Drug Adminis tration and was awarded the Commissioner's Special Citation for Outstanding Service, and has received the Secretary of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service and a Citation for Special Achievement from the American Hospital Association. He received the Bachelor of Arts degree from Williams College and the Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Colorado.
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He chairs the Research Council Board on Atmo spheric Sciences and Climate and in June 2004 will complete a 3 year term as a member of the Space Studies Board. He is a Fellow and past president of the American Meteorological Society, and a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
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In addition, she is a member of the newly formed Center for Civic Engagement and Volunteerism Advisory Board at Raritan Community College. Before becoming governor, Whitman was president of the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities and served on the Somerset County Board of Freeholders.
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In the 1980s and 1990s, Hanna was a senior analyst at the congressional Office of Technology Assessment, contributing to numerous science policy studies requested by congressional committees on science educa tion, research funding, biotechnology, women's health, human genetics, bioethics, and reproductive technologies. In the last decade, she has served as an analyst and editorial consultant to the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the National Institutes of 63
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Hogue earned his PhD in public administration, specializing in American government, from the American Univer sity in 2001. His areas of study and publication since that time have included the presidential appointment process, the President's recess appointment authority, electronic government, and other topics related to federal government organization and management.
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He has also written articles for the New York Times, the Christian Science Monitor, the Washington Quarterly, and the International Herald Tribune. He has served as a US diplomat for over 20 years specializing in press relations and public affairs in US embassies in Warsaw, Paris, and Brussels.
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