Obama bestows science, technology medals

[rdean]

In a ceremony in the White House East Room, Obama bestowed the National Medal of Science on 10 researchers and awarded the National Medal of Technology and Innovation to three individuals and a three-person team.

The medals represent the government's highest honor for scientists, engineers and inventors.

| R&D Mag

Amazing.

I can never understand those who think scientists are lazy or universities don't do anything.

In the past, we have had scientists who quit because an administration may try to force them to change their data to match administration policy. What a scandal. What kind of a political party would do something so despicable?

Chapman University, Calif

Pennsylvania State University

University of Rochester, Rochester, N.Y

University of California, San Diego

Whitehead Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md

Brown University, Providence, R.I

University of California, San Francisco

National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colo.

California Institute of Technology

Wow, and look at those states. They must be proud of their universities. Especially California.

 

[California Girl]

Were they all Democrats?

 

[boedicca]

Were they all Democrats?

[rdean]6% of the scientists are Republicans.[/rdean]


Hence, 94% of them are Democrats.

 

[rdean]

Were they all Democrats?

There is a 6% chance they weren't.

 

[Trajan]

In a ceremony in the White House East Room, Obama bestowed the National Medal of Science on 10 researchers and awarded the National Medal of Technology and Innovation to three individuals and a three-person team.

The medals represent the government's highest honor for scientists, engineers and inventors.

| R&D Mag

Amazing.

I can never understand those who think scientists are lazy or universities don't do anything.

In the past, we have had scientists who quit because an administration may try to force them to change their data to match administration policy. What a scandal. What kind of a political party would do something so despicable?

Chapman University, Calif

Pennsylvania State University

University of Rochester, Rochester, N.Y

University of California, San Diego

Whitehead Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md

Brown University, Providence, R.I

University of California, San Francisco

National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colo.

California Institute of Technology

Wow, and look at those states. They must be proud of their universities. Especially California.

President Bush Bestows National Medal of Technology on First Yale Professor to Receive the Honor

Penn State Live - U.S. president bestows medal on Penn State plant geneticist





Biological Sciences James E. Darnell, Jr., Rockefeller University, New York, N.Y. Evelyn M. Witkin, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J.

Chemistry John I. Brauman, Stanford University, Palo Alto, Calif.

Engineering Leo L. Beranek, BBN Technologies, Cambridge, Mass.

Mathematics James G. Glimm, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, N.Y.

Physical Sciences Richard L. Garwin, Council on Foreign Relations, New York, N.Y. W. Jason Morgan, Princeton University, Princeton, N.J. Edward Witten, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, N.J.

The 2002 National Medal of Technology Laureates:

Calvin H. Carter, Jr., Cree Inc., Durham, N.C. Haren S. Gandhi, Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, Mich. Carver A. Mead, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif. Team of: John J. Mooney and Carl D. Keith, Engelhard Corporation, Iselin, N.J. Team of: Nicholas Holonyak, Jr., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana-Champaign, Ill., M. George Craford, LumiLeds Lighting, San Jose, Calif., and Russell D. Dupuis, Georgia Institute of Technology at Atlanta, Ga. DuPont, Wilmington, Del. ###

John Mooney receives the National Medal of Technology



your move......

 

[rdean]

Were they all Democrats?

[rdean]6% of the scientists are Republicans.[/rdean]


Hence, 94% of them are Democrats.

Uh, actually, 32 are independent and 4% are "other", whatever that means.

The rest are Democrats. I would have thought more were Democrats and less were Republican, but I guess not.

 

[boedicca]

81% LEAN Democrat, if ya kno whad ahm sayin'.

 

[rdean]

In a ceremony in the White House East Room, Obama bestowed the National Medal of Science on 10 researchers and awarded the National Medal of Technology and Innovation to three individuals and a three-person team.

The medals represent the government's highest honor for scientists, engineers and inventors.

| R&D Mag

Amazing.

I can never understand those who think scientists are lazy or universities don't do anything.

In the past, we have had scientists who quit because an administration may try to force them to change their data to match administration policy. What a scandal. What kind of a political party would do something so despicable?

Chapman University, Calif

Pennsylvania State University

University of Rochester, Rochester, N.Y

University of California, San Diego

Whitehead Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md

Brown University, Providence, R.I

University of California, San Francisco

National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colo.

California Institute of Technology

Wow, and look at those states. They must be proud of their universities. Especially California.

President Bush Bestows National Medal of Technology on First Yale Professor to Receive the Honor

Penn State Live - U.S. president bestows medal on Penn State plant geneticist





Biological Sciences James E. Darnell, Jr., Rockefeller University, New York, N.Y. Evelyn M. Witkin, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J.

Chemistry John I. Brauman, Stanford University, Palo Alto, Calif.

Engineering Leo L. Beranek, BBN Technologies, Cambridge, Mass.

Mathematics James G. Glimm, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, N.Y.

Physical Sciences Richard L. Garwin, Council on Foreign Relations, New York, N.Y. W. Jason Morgan, Princeton University, Princeton, N.J. Edward Witten, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, N.J.

The 2002 National Medal of Technology Laureates:

Calvin H. Carter, Jr., Cree Inc., Durham, N.C. Haren S. Gandhi, Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, Mich. Carver A. Mead, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif. Team of: John J. Mooney and Carl D. Keith, Engelhard Corporation, Iselin, N.J. Team of: Nicholas Holonyak, Jr., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana-Champaign, Ill., M. George Craford, LumiLeds Lighting, San Jose, Calif., and Russell D. Dupuis, Georgia Institute of Technology at Atlanta, Ga. DuPont, Wilmington, Del. ###

John Mooney receives the National Medal of Technology



your move......

OK, Thanks:

All those Blue States. Bush must have hated giving medals to all those Democrats.

The Bush administration has distorted scientific fact leading to policy decisions on the environment, health, biomedical research and nuclear weaponry, a group of about 60 scientists, including 20 Nobel laureates, said in a statement on Wednesday.

Scientists: Bush Distorts Science

 

[Trajan]

In a ceremony in the White House East Room, Obama bestowed the National Medal of Science on 10 researchers and awarded the National Medal of Technology and Innovation to three individuals and a three-person team.

The medals represent the government's highest honor for scientists, engineers and inventors.

| R&D Mag

Amazing.

I can never understand those who think scientists are lazy or universities don't do anything.

In the past, we have had scientists who quit because an administration may try to force them to change their data to match administration policy. What a scandal. What kind of a political party would do something so despicable?

Chapman University, Calif

Pennsylvania State University

University of Rochester, Rochester, N.Y

University of California, San Diego

Whitehead Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md

Brown University, Providence, R.I

University of California, San Francisco

National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colo.

California Institute of Technology

Wow, and look at those states. They must be proud of their universities. Especially California.

President Bush Bestows National Medal of Technology on First Yale Professor to Receive the Honor

Penn State Live - U.S. president bestows medal on Penn State plant geneticist





Biological Sciences James E. Darnell, Jr., Rockefeller University, New York, N.Y. Evelyn M. Witkin, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J.

Chemistry John I. Brauman, Stanford University, Palo Alto, Calif.

Engineering Leo L. Beranek, BBN Technologies, Cambridge, Mass.

Mathematics James G. Glimm, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, N.Y.

Physical Sciences Richard L. Garwin, Council on Foreign Relations, New York, N.Y. W. Jason Morgan, Princeton University, Princeton, N.J. Edward Witten, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, N.J.

The 2002 National Medal of Technology Laureates:

Calvin H. Carter, Jr., Cree Inc., Durham, N.C. Haren S. Gandhi, Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, Mich. Carver A. Mead, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif. Team of: John J. Mooney and Carl D. Keith, Engelhard Corporation, Iselin, N.J. Team of: Nicholas Holonyak, Jr., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana-Champaign, Ill., M. George Craford, LumiLeds Lighting, San Jose, Calif., and Russell D. Dupuis, Georgia Institute of Technology at Atlanta, Ga. DuPont, Wilmington, Del. ###

John Mooney receives the National Medal of Technology



your move......

OK, Thanks:

All those Blue States. Bush must have hated giving medals to all those Democrats.

The Bush administration has distorted scientific fact leading to policy decisions on the environment, health, biomedical research and nuclear weaponry, a group of about 60 scientists, including 20 Nobel laureates, said in a statement on Wednesday.

Scientists: Bush Distorts Science

All those Blue States. Bush must have hated giving medals to all those Democrats.

no, maybe hes just not a partisan hack like some and recognizes merit, period....eh?

 

[rdean]

President Bush Bestows National Medal of Technology on First Yale Professor to Receive the Honor

Penn State Live - U.S. president bestows medal on Penn State plant geneticist





Biological Sciences James E. Darnell, Jr., Rockefeller University, New York, N.Y. Evelyn M. Witkin, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J.

Chemistry John I. Brauman, Stanford University, Palo Alto, Calif.

Engineering Leo L. Beranek, BBN Technologies, Cambridge, Mass.

Mathematics James G. Glimm, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, N.Y.

Physical Sciences Richard L. Garwin, Council on Foreign Relations, New York, N.Y. W. Jason Morgan, Princeton University, Princeton, N.J. Edward Witten, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, N.J.

The 2002 National Medal of Technology Laureates:

Calvin H. Carter, Jr., Cree Inc., Durham, N.C. Haren S. Gandhi, Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, Mich. Carver A. Mead, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif. Team of: John J. Mooney and Carl D. Keith, Engelhard Corporation, Iselin, N.J. Team of: Nicholas Holonyak, Jr., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana-Champaign, Ill., M. George Craford, LumiLeds Lighting, San Jose, Calif., and Russell D. Dupuis, Georgia Institute of Technology at Atlanta, Ga. DuPont, Wilmington, Del. ###

John Mooney receives the National Medal of Technology



your move......

OK, Thanks:

All those Blue States. Bush must have hated giving medals to all those Democrats.

The Bush administration has distorted scientific fact leading to policy decisions on the environment, health, biomedical research and nuclear weaponry, a group of about 60 scientists, including 20 Nobel laureates, said in a statement on Wednesday.

Scientists: Bush Distorts Science

All those Blue States. Bush must have hated giving medals to all those Democrats.

no, maybe hes just not a partisan hack like some and recognizes merit, period....eh?

Bush? Oh I get it. Yea, that was a pretty funny joke. Thanks.

 

[waltky]

Not a good example to set after tellin school kids to learn science...

US cuts back as China spends on science
Sun, Feb 20, 2011 - WASHINGTON : China has its eye on becoming the top science nation in the world, overtaking the US and European nations, researchers at a US science conference said on Friday.

After being the world’s main source of cheap manufactured goods, China is investing heavily in science and technology. “China hopes to become one of the leading sources of intellectual property in coming years,” said Denis Simon, a professor at Penn State University, who is also the science and technology adviser to the mayor of the Chinese city of Dalian.

At a time when the US and Europe are hamstrung by shrinking budgets, China has increased spending on science and technology “significantly,” Simon said at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). “The Chinese have indicated that by 2020 they hope to spend around 2.5 percent of GDP on research and development,” Simon said.

In the US, meanwhile, Republican lawmakers are talking about trimming US$1 billion from the National Institutes of Health, the world’s largest public research institute, and slashing funds for other science and research agencies, in a bid to narrow a trillion-dollar US deficit. That is at odds with the billion-dollar boost US President Barack Obama proposed for science and health research in his 2012 budget.

The Republicans also want to slash funds for education by US$5 billion, even though US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has warned that the US must better educate its kids, especially in science and math, or risk becoming uncompetitive in the global economy. A report last year showed the US has slipped from second place to 13th out of 34 countries in the number of students enrolled in university and that it was stagnating in science teaching — in 17th place — and doing poorly in math, in 25th place.

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[rdean]

Not a good example to set after tellin school kids to learn science...

US cuts back as China spends on science
Sun, Feb 20, 2011 - WASHINGTON : China has its eye on becoming the top science nation in the world, overtaking the US and European nations, researchers at a US science conference said on Friday.

After being the world’s main source of cheap manufactured goods, China is investing heavily in science and technology. “China hopes to become one of the leading sources of intellectual property in coming years,” said Denis Simon, a professor at Penn State University, who is also the science and technology adviser to the mayor of the Chinese city of Dalian.

At a time when the US and Europe are hamstrung by shrinking budgets, China has increased spending on science and technology “significantly,” Simon said at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). “The Chinese have indicated that by 2020 they hope to spend around 2.5 percent of GDP on research and development,” Simon said.

In the US, meanwhile, Republican lawmakers are talking about trimming US$1 billion from the National Institutes of Health, the world’s largest public research institute, and slashing funds for other science and research agencies, in a bid to narrow a trillion-dollar US deficit. That is at odds with the billion-dollar boost US President Barack Obama proposed for science and health research in his 2012 budget.

The Republicans also want to slash funds for education by US$5 billion, even though US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has warned that the US must better educate its kids, especially in science and math, or risk becoming uncompetitive in the global economy. A report last year showed the US has slipped from second place to 13th out of 34 countries in the number of students enrolled in university and that it was stagnating in science teaching — in 17th place — and doing poorly in math, in 25th place.

MORE

That's what Republicans do once they get power. Cut or malign science. Yet they insist more than 6% of scientists are Republican. I don't get it.

 

[California Girl]

Not a good example to set after tellin school kids to learn science...

US cuts back as China spends on science
Sun, Feb 20, 2011 - WASHINGTON : China has its eye on becoming the top science nation in the world, overtaking the US and European nations, researchers at a US science conference said on Friday.

After being the world’s main source of cheap manufactured goods, China is investing heavily in science and technology. “China hopes to become one of the leading sources of intellectual property in coming years,” said Denis Simon, a professor at Penn State University, who is also the science and technology adviser to the mayor of the Chinese city of Dalian.

At a time when the US and Europe are hamstrung by shrinking budgets, China has increased spending on science and technology “significantly,” Simon said at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). “The Chinese have indicated that by 2020 they hope to spend around 2.5 percent of GDP on research and development,” Simon said.

In the US, meanwhile, Republican lawmakers are talking about trimming US$1 billion from the National Institutes of Health, the world’s largest public research institute, and slashing funds for other science and research agencies, in a bid to narrow a trillion-dollar US deficit. That is at odds with the billion-dollar boost US President Barack Obama proposed for science and health research in his 2012 budget.

The Republicans also want to slash funds for education by US$5 billion, even though US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has warned that the US must better educate its kids, especially in science and math, or risk becoming uncompetitive in the global economy. A report last year showed the US has slipped from second place to 13th out of 34 countries in the number of students enrolled in university and that it was stagnating in science teaching — in 17th place — and doing poorly in math, in 25th place.

MORE

That's what Republicans do once they get power. Cut or malign science. Yet they insist more than 6% of scientists are Republican. I don't get it.

Actually, rdean...... the political view of any scientist should not be of any relevance. No one is 'insisting' that more than 6% are Republican..... we care about the quality of their work.... and, if they are overtly political, then I would suggest that their work may be unduly influenced by their political affiliation. Science is not about politics. Nor should it be. I find it sad that you are too stupid to know that.

 

[Quantum Windbag]

Damn, too bad Bush never gave out one of those medals.

President Bush Bestows National Medal of Technology on First Yale Professor to Receive the Honor

Oops

 

[rdean]

Damn, too bad Bush never gave out one of those medals.

President Bush Bestows National Medal of Technology on First Yale Professor to Receive the Honor

Oops

Woodall co-founded LightSpin Technologies, Inc., a high technology startup company, and serves as its Chief Science Officer. From 1993 through 1999, he held the Charles William Harrison Distinguished Professorship of Microelectronics at Purdue University. He earned a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Cornell University and a B.S. in metallurgy from MIT.

Purdue
Cornell
MIT

Hardly centers of Republican or conservative "science". Hmmm, "Conservative Science" - an oxymoron? Oops

 

[Quantum Windbag]

Damn, too bad Bush never gave out one of those medals.

President Bush Bestows National Medal of Technology on First Yale Professor to Receive the Honor

Oops

Woodall co-founded LightSpin Technologies, Inc., a high technology startup company, and serves as its Chief Science Officer. From 1993 through 1999, he held the Charles William Harrison Distinguished Professorship of Microelectronics at Purdue University. He earned a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Cornell University and a B.S. in metallurgy from MIT.

Purdue
Cornell
MIT

Hardly centers of Republican or conservative "science". Hmmm, "Conservative Science" - an oxymoron? Oops

If Republicans were anti science then Bush would not have gave any science medals out. As I do not think science is liberal or conservative, I am just mocking your Republicans hate science position, nothing else. If pressed, I am sure I could find plenty of Republican scientists.

 

[rdean]

Damn, too bad Bush never gave out one of those medals.

President Bush Bestows National Medal of Technology on First Yale Professor to Receive the Honor

Oops

Woodall co-founded LightSpin Technologies, Inc., a high technology startup company, and serves as its Chief Science Officer. From 1993 through 1999, he held the Charles William Harrison Distinguished Professorship of Microelectronics at Purdue University. He earned a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Cornell University and a B.S. in metallurgy from MIT.

Purdue
Cornell
MIT

Hardly centers of Republican or conservative "science". Hmmm, "Conservative Science" - an oxymoron? Oops

If Republicans were anti science then Bush would not have gave any science medals out. As I do not think science is liberal or conservative, I am just mocking your Republicans hate science position, nothing else. If pressed, I am sure I could find plenty of Republican scientists.

If Bush weren't anti science, he wouldn't have had every science magazine and organisation complaining about his disastrous policies. Just the fact that he tried to get scientists to change their data to match administration policies and sent out memos restricting free speech says it all. Trying to infringe on their integrity though threats and intimidation. And for once, go look it the fuck up. I post over and over again from reputable sources and you guys refuse to read it and then you cry "liar". The right wing doesn't even know what their leaders are doing.

 

[DiveCon]

hmmm

Jerry M. Woodall

he seems kinda conservative to me

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[Quantum Windbag]

Woodall co-founded LightSpin Technologies, Inc., a high technology startup company, and serves as its Chief Science Officer. From 1993 through 1999, he held the Charles William Harrison Distinguished Professorship of Microelectronics at Purdue University. He earned a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Cornell University and a B.S. in metallurgy from MIT.

Purdue
Cornell
MIT

Hardly centers of Republican or conservative "science". Hmmm, "Conservative Science" - an oxymoron? Oops

If Republicans were anti science then Bush would not have gave any science medals out. As I do not think science is liberal or conservative, I am just mocking your Republicans hate science position, nothing else. If pressed, I am sure I could find plenty of Republican scientists.

If Bush weren't anti science, he wouldn't have had every science magazine and organisation complaining about his disastrous policies. Just the fact that he tried to get scientists to change their data to match administration policies and sent out memos restricting free speech says it all. Trying to infringe on their integrity though threats and intimidation. And for once, go look it the fuck up. I post over and over again from reputable sources and you guys refuse to read it and then you cry "liar". The right wing doesn't even know what their leaders are doing.

If you actually read those things you would know they are making the same complainst about Obama and his policies.

 

[rdean]

If Republicans were anti science then Bush would not have gave any science medals out. As I do not think science is liberal or conservative, I am just mocking your Republicans hate science position, nothing else. If pressed, I am sure I could find plenty of Republican scientists.

If Bush weren't anti science, he wouldn't have had every science magazine and organisation complaining about his disastrous policies. Just the fact that he tried to get scientists to change their data to match administration policies and sent out memos restricting free speech says it all. Trying to infringe on their integrity though threats and intimidation. And for once, go look it the fuck up. I post over and over again from reputable sources and you guys refuse to read it and then you cry "liar". The right wing doesn't even know what their leaders are doing.

If you actually read those things you would know they are making the same complainst about Obama and his policies.

You are either wrong or lying. I go with lying.