The PAEMST award recognizes outstanding primary-school math and science teachers and is administered by the National Science Foundation on behalf of the Office of Science and Technology Policy.
Each year the PAEMST award, which is administered by the National Science Foundation on behalf of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, alternates between granting honors to teachers of grades K-6 and grades 7-12.
Lidia Brito is director of the Division of Science Policy and Sustainable Development of UNESCO and former Minister of Education, Science and Technology of Mozambique.
"The US government has no evidence that any life exists outside our planet, or that an extraterrestrial presence has contacted or engaged any member of the human race, " wrote space policy expert Phil Larson of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
Felicia Escobar is Senior Policy Director for Immigration at the Domestic Policy Council and Doug Rand is a Senior Policy Advisor at the Office of Science and Technology Policy.
Along with the order is an accompanying Open Data Policy released by the Office of Management and Budget and Office of Science and Technology Policy.
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Co-sponsored by UNESCO, IPBES is an interface between the scientific community and policy makers that aims to build capacity for and strengthen the use of science in policy making.
Lidia Brito, Director of the Science Policy and Capacity-Building Division of UNESCO, is a distinguished panelist at ESOF 2012.
Doug Rand and John Paul Farmer are Senior Advisors at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
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The task force is made up of NOAA, the Environmental Protection Agency and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
Graham , the former Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and Science Advisor to President Reagan, and Dr. Keith B.
On June 26, 1986, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy published a policy statement called the Coordinated Framework for the Regulation of Biotechnology.
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Professor Nutt has, laudably, staked the credibility of science in public policy on getting politicians to put away their moral sentiments and face up to statistics.
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Yesterday, I had the pleasure of speaking at the Technology Inclusion Summit, hosted by Chief Technology Officer Todd Park, the Office of Science and Technology Policy, and the Level Playing Field Institute.
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Working at the interface of science and environmental policy she will bring together long term data sets on biodiversity, the environment and human impacts to explore spatiotemporal patterns of ecosystem functioning and help identify where conservation attention needs to focus in the future.
On their first full day in the District, they spent the afternoon meeting many women in senior leadership positions at the White House, including the Office of Digital Strategy, the Office of Management and Budget, and the Office of Science and Technology Policy.
In 2009, the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) initiated the Interagency Climate Change Adaptation Task Force, which includes representatives from more than 20 Federal Agencies.
Others in attendance at the briefing included National Security Advisor Tom Donilon, Homeland Security Advisor John Brennan, Deputy National Security Advisor Denis McDonough, White House Chief of Staff Bill Daley, and John Holdren, the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy.
Note: The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and Council on Women and Girls recently launched the "Women in STEM Speakers Bureau, " where top Administration female STEM specialists participate in roundtables with girls in grades 6-12 across the country.
Designed to spark the interest of middle and high-school girls in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) subjects, the Women in STEM Speakers Bureau was launched by the White House Council on Women and Girls and Office of Science and Technology Policy in September of last year.
The Director-General underlined the importance of a better interface between science and policy, and to engineering as one of the pillars of science, innovation and technology.
Throughout the IYB steady progress was made towards the establishment of an Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) on the model of the IPCC, pivotal in assessing the science and raising global awareness of climate change.
The meetings also identified possible directions forward in achieving the conservation and sustainable and equitable use of biodiversity, including the establishment of an independent intergovernmental science-policy platform on biodiversity and ecosystem services (IPBES) and the development of an agreed regime for accessing biodiversity and for equitably sharing its benefits.
In the UK, the Centre of Water Law, Policy and Science is based at the University of Dundee have been heavily involved in the programme.
The Organization has been deeply engaged also with the creation of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), a vital platform for action to protect biodiversity.
The Conference welcomed the establishment of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) earlier this year and recognized the potential contribution it could make to enhance the effectiveness of the Convention.
Dr. Billal has 28 years of scientific and administrative experience in research and management to his credit and has the honour of implementing more then 1200 scientific programmes and projects around the world, covering a broad category of areas like science policy and innovation system, science education, technology capability building, environment protection, climate change, and water management programmes among others.
The Spanish version of the book was launched on 29 January 2010 at the UNESCO Conference on Biodiversity Science Policy for the International Year of Biodiversity.
It has fundamental significance for UNESCO nowadays, at a time when science has tremendous power to shape the future of humanity and when it no longer makes much sense to design science policy in purely national terms.
The Director-General went on to highlight the importance of science for sustainability and underlined the need to strengthen the science-policy interface.
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