John Holdren

Type: Person

Name: John Holdren

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

IEEE Launches Open-Access ‘Mega-Journal’

The association hopes its newest open-access journal—a platform for scientists and engineers to make their research on a variety of subjects widely available—will help advance the technology industry.At a time when academic publishing is grappling with ... [Published Associations Now - May 17 2013]

Entities: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, John Holdren, Aaron Swartz

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

White House wants to root out copycat programs - starting with STEM

The White House wants to cut the number of science, technology, education and math (STEM) programs run by federal agencies in half.The Obama administration's proposed fiscal 2014 budget called for consolidating or eliminating 116 of the government's 226 ... [Published Federal News Radio 1500 AM - May 17 2013]

Entities: John Holdren, Impersonator, Mark Warner, White House, Reproducibility

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Can Obama pardon Kermit Gosnell?

The power to pardon by the President is granted by the United States Constitution, Article II, Section 2: The President ? shall have power to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States, except in cases of impeachment.Since the ... [Published Redstate - May 17 2013]

Entities: Kermit Gosnell, Paul Ehrlich, John Holdren, Gosnell (United States)

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Sen. Warner Chairs Senate Budget Subcommittee Hearing

Today, the Senate Budget Committees Task Force on Government Performance held its first hearing of the 113th Congress titled Silo Busting: Effective Strategies for Government Reorganization. The Task Force has the charge of reviewing federal programs ... [Published U.S. Senator John Warner - May 16 2013]

Entities: John Holdren, Task Force, Modernization, US Government Accountability Office, STEM fields

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

Barack Obama

Federal Requirement for Open Access: Seeing What You Paid for

In early May President Obama signed an executive order that makes "". Network World In early May President Obama signed an executive order that makes "". This new order continues a process the President started on his first day in office with a memorandum ... [Published CIO Magazine - May 15 2013]

Entities: Barack Obama, John Holdren, Basic Research, Peer Review

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

Towards Open Access to Government Science: The Obama Administration Takes Some Important Steps

This week, the National Research Council is holding public comment meetings on increasing public access to federally funded research—both access to the data and publications. We encouraged the UCS Science Network to weigh in with their own ideas on how ... [Published Union of Concerned Scientists - May 15 2013]

Entities: Obama Administration, John Holdren, Federal, National Research Council

First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 14 2013 - 1 reports

President Obama 'really likes' working with scientists, top advisor says in Hoboken

John P. Holdren, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, gave the audience a rundown of Obama's moves to fulfill his first-term inauguration pledge to ?restore science to its rightful place.? Holdren, who was speaking at the ... [Published New Jersey Online - May 14 2013]

Entities: John Holdren, Barack Obama, Obama Administration, Plasma Physics, Embryonic Stem Cell

First reported May 13 2013 - Updated May 13 2013 - 1 reports

The great algae conspiracy: Are oceans being destroyed to replace oil with algae?

by J. D. Heyes(NaturalNews) In what he describes as "the mother of all conspiracy theories," an Arizona-based talk radio host says the powers that be are intentionally destroying large bodies of water in a bid to create a multi-trillion-dollar biofuel ... [Published Natural News - May 13 2013]

Entities: Algae, Conspiracy, John Holdren, Nitrogen

First reported May 11 2013 - Updated May 11 2013 - 1 reports

John P. Holdren Need to Eliminate People

During a Q&A segment at a science & technology speech given by President Obama’s Science Czar, John P. Holdren, Luke Rudkowski asked him about the statements made in his 1977... Read more » ... [Published Education News - May 11 2013]

Entities: John Holdren, Barack Obama

First reported May 02 2013 - Updated May 03 2013 - 4 reports

Kenneth Prewitt: Is Any Science Safe?

This month, the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) will apply two criteria in itsreview of research proposals: intellectual merit and impact. One discipline, however, will have to meet a further test. In March, at the urging of U.S. Senator Tom Coburn ... [Published Huffington Post - May 03 2013]

Entities: Tom Coburn, Peer Review, Herbert Simon, United States, Office of Strategic Services

First reported Apr 30 2013 - Updated Apr 30 2013 - 3 reports

National Science Foundation and Tom Coburn: The Republican effort to cut government funding for social-science research. - Slate Magazine

The first time anyone outside of Florida’s Space Coast heard of Rep. Bill Posey, he was talking about Barack Obama’s birth certificate. It was March 2009. Posey had been in office for two months, and he was the first to propose a bill requiring presidential ... [Published Slate Magazine - Apr 30 2013]

Entities: Bill Posey, Tom Coburn, John Holdren, National Science Foundation

First reported Apr 22 2013 - Updated Apr 22 2013 - 7 reports

Can you say 'nominal'? Orbital Sciences' controllers could during Sunday's Antares launch (video)

WALLOPS ISLAND, Virginia -- Excellent new video clips (below) of display a proud moment for the American launch company and NASA from several perspectives. They also may have spawned a new drinking game and an early candidate for meme of the week.Can ... [Published al.com - Apr 22 2013]

Entities: Orbital Sciences Corporation, NASA, Aerojet

Quotes

"Obviously, there are some folks who are not pleased by losing those particular programs, and so we've heard about that," Holdren said. "but i think on the whole, the agencies appreciate and understand the reasons for this approach. they understand the need for greater coordination, coherence, efficiency and ease of evaluation."

White House wants to root out copycat programs - starting with STEM [Published Federal News Radio 1500 AM - May 17 2013]

...As Dr. Holdren said , it would make no sense at all to "throw out the basic-research baby with the bathwater, inasmuch as basic research constitutes precisely that subset of research activity that is aimed at expanding knowledge without reference to possible applications."

American Anthropological Association: Basic Research and Its Contributions to Science and Society [Published Huffington Post - May 10 2013]

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Can Obama pardon Kermit Gosnell? [Published Redstate - May 17 2013]
Agencies Need Congress’ Help to Weed Out Duplic... [Published Government Executive - May 16 2013]
Sen. Warner Chairs Senate Budget Subcommittee H... [Published U.S. Senator John Warner - May 16 2013]
Federal Requirement for Open Access: Seeing Wha... [Published CIO Magazine - May 15 2013]
Towards Open Access to Government Science: The ... [Published Union of Concerned Scientists - May 15 2013]
President Obama 'really likes' working with sci... [Published New Jersey Online - May 14 2013]
The great algae conspiracy: Are oceans being de... [Published Natural News - May 13 2013]
John P. Holdren Need to Eliminate People [Published Education News - May 11 2013]
James M. Gentile: Congress and Peer Review of S... [Published Huffington Post - May 10 2013]
American Anthropological Association: Basic Res... [Published Huffington Post - May 10 2013]
Science Advisor Gives Hopeful Progress Report o... [Published Scientific American - Observations - May 10 2013]
Holdren Responds to Proposals to Limit Federal ... [Published IEEE-USA Today's Engineer - May 10 2013]
Obama’s Science Czar John P. Holdren Confronted... [Published Now Public - May 10 2013]
Not Safe for Funding: The N.S.F. and the Econom... [Published New Yorker - May 09 2013]
Chasing Ice: Putting a Face to Climate Change [Published NRDC Worldview - May 08 2013]
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