Science and Technology for America's Progress: Ensuring the Best Presidential Appointments in the New Administration.

The National Academies have issued a new report titled Science and Technology for America's Progress: Ensuring the Best Presidential Appointments in the New Administration. The report, was sent to John McCain and Barack Obama , and is intended to provide guidance for the one elected president in November. The book provides suggestions on filling key science appointments after the election, listing some 80 high-level science and technology appointees who will be crucial in advising the new president on issues that range from energy to health care to economic growth. It also urges members of the scientific community to serve in these positions, and suggests ways to make it more attractive for well-qualified people to do so. Richard Biddell, who was once my boss, was the staff director for the report, working with a distinguished panel.

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Committee on Science and Technology in the National Interest: Ensuring the Best Presidential Appointments; National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and Institute of Medicine