Leading off this week's Science special issue on neuroscience, Alan Leshner, chief executive officer of AAAS and executive publisher of Science, wrote an editorial that called on the neuroscience community to embrace the changes to come.
Tim Appenzeller, chief magazine editor for Nature for the past several years, will replace current News Editor Colin Norman later this year, Alan Leshner, the chief executive officer of AAAS and executive publisher of Science, announced today.
Thomas Thurston, a partner at the firm and chief executive of Growth Science, which uses data science to make business predictions for companies, welcomes the uproar.
DOUGLAS BRAATEN New York, Nov. 5, 2013 The writer is executive director of science publications at the New York Academy of Sciences and editor in chief, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences.
Sheril Kirshenbaum, executive director of Science Debate, a nonpartisan group that backs the inclusion of science policy in presidential debates, said Clinton could raise the discourse of a national campaign.
The degree names vary -- Pepperdine University in Malibu, Calif., for example, offers an educational doctorate of organizational change, Pace University in New York grants a doctorate of professional studies and Tulane University in New Orleans has an executive doctorate of science in health systems management.
In this week's Editorial, AAAS President Phillip A. Sharp and Alan I. Leshner, AAAS CEO and executive publisher of Science, wrote about meeting global challenges with science.
► Rush Holt, AAAS CEO and the executive publisher of Science, wrote an editorial in this week's issue about the important role that the association plays within the scientific community.
► "Routine laboratories that underpin most scientific activity are.... critical to progress, but in many cases have long been neglected and are deteriorating," wrote Alan Leshner, CEO emeritus of AAAS (the publisher of Science Careers) and former executive publisher of Science, in an editorial in this week's issue.
But Dr Kate Allen, executive director of science and public affairs at WCRF, said: "These results are a real concern because they show that a significant proportion of people don't realise that there's a lot they can do to reduce their risk of cancer.
While McDonald's has yet to release specific plans for its now antibiotic and deforestation policies, Michael Jacobson, Executive Director of Science in the Public Interest, said the long-maligned company deserved praise for the proposed changes.
