MIT Student Pugwash

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MIT Student Pugwash
promoting social responsibility in science and
technology
MIT Student Pugwash Presents
Science Policy in the New U.S. Congress
35-225, 6pm 730pm December 13th, 2006
Ernest Moniz
Claude Canizares
Professor of Physics and Engineering
Systems Director, MIT Energy Initiative Co-directo
r, Laboratory for Energy and Environment Former
Under Secretary, Department of Energy (1997
2001)
Bruno Rossi Professor of Physics Vice President
for Research Associate Provost Associate Director
for MIT of the Chandra X-ray Observatory
Center Former chair, Space Studies Board of the
National Research Council and NASA's Space
Science Advisory Committee
Kenneth Oye
William Bonvillian
(Moderator)
Director, MIT Washington Office Former
legislative director and chief counsel for U.S.
Senator Joseph Lieberman
Associate Professor of Political Science and
Engineering Systems Former Director, MIT Center
for International Studies
What were the science policies of the previous
Republican Congress, and what can we expect from
the new Democratic one? What changes do the
Democrats want to make, and what changes might we
actually see?
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