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Science Takes Center Stage in the Biden Administration The number of changes being implemented by the new administration in the White House are likely too many to count. And while many are significant, one strikes a chord with the scientific community in a very meaningful way. In the days leading up to his inauguration, President Biden made it clear that science is a priority. He has backed that up with several recent announcements. First, President Biden named Eric Lander, PhD, the founding d...

President Joe Biden on Wednesday issued a call for national unity, devoting much of his inaugural address not to the policies and programs to come, but to the “uncivil war” that Americans must put behind them to tackle their myriad national challenges. The Inauguration of Biden as the 46th president and of Kamala Harris as the first woman, African American, and Asian American vice president took place before a sparse, masked crowd and amid heavy security, both vivid reminders of two major c...

Scientific American As the U.S. president announces his advisers and agency heads, Nature’s guide tracks the appointees who matter most to science Print Alondra Nelson speaks in Wilmington, Delaware after being named Deputy Director for Science and Society in the Office of Science and Technology Policy. Credit: Angela Weiss Advertisement After winning the US presidential election, Democrat Joe Biden moved quickly to begin naming the experts who will advise him on a range of issues—includ...

Scientists are calling on new US President Joe Biden to revive the cancer moonshot programme, aimed at ending the disease that kills tens of thousands of Americans each year, and which took the life of his son, Beau.

Biden and Harris announce White House science team The presidential science adviser is being elevated to cabinet level for the first time. Listen - 01:24 Biden and Harris have chosen their team of science advisers. Biden Inaugural Committee The Joe Biden-Kamala Harris transition team has announced who will serve on the White House science team under their administration. The advisers will help Biden and...

This Shabbat, we find ourselves celebrating the 7th Day of the Festival of Pesach and preparing for this week’s special reading of the account of Kriat Yam Suf, the crossing of the Sea of Reeds, which tradition posits took place on this day. And yet, though we are knee-deep in our Passover c…

Joe Biden becomes the country’s 46th president at a time when the United States is mired in a pandemic and its related economic challenges. His proposed solutions, and their effectiveness, is surely how the first part of his presidency will be measured.

By Rebecca Trager2021-01-20T14:35:00+00:00 The new US president Joe Biden has named several preeminent researchers to his science team and raised the status of the presidential science adviser to a cabinet-level position. The news has thrilled science groups and research advocates across the country. Just days before his 20 January inauguration, Biden announced key members of his White House science team, including Eric Lander, a geneticist who currently serves as the president and founding dir...

By JTA | January 20, 2021 President Joe Biden filled the months before Inauguration Day lining up a slate of Cabinet secretaries, assistants and advisors, many of them Jewish. Biden’s choices reflect a diverse cross-section of American Jewry and possess expertise gleaned from decades of experience in government, science and medicine and law. Here’s a rundown of the Jewish names you should know as the Biden administration begins. Blinken, a longtime Biden advisor with an extensive diploma...

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