But this will be his first opportunity to lead the science committee.
Al Diaz will move from Maryland's Goddard Space Flight Center, where he is now director, to lead the science office, while former space science chief Ed Weiler replaces him at Goddard.
Barack Obama selected Burns to help lead the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Education Coalition, a national alliance of more than 1,000 technological organizations striving to improve student participation and performance in the aforementioned subject areas through legislative advocacy.
Dr. Soffen, who lived in Washington, organized and led the science team for the two Viking spacecraft landings on Mars in 1976 and played a major role in developing the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's new astrobiology program for studying life in the universe.
Donna K. Ginther, an economics professor at the University of Kansas who led the Science study, has taken a closer look at a subset of 2,400 proposals included in the original study.
How can we make sure that we don't have an unhappy ending?" Sandberg became interested in the future of love after his colleague, Professor Julian Savulescu, who leads the science and ethics division, became divorced from his first wife in 2005.
That last phrase is a reference to Sensenbrenner, who led the science panel from 1997 to 2001.
"The links in the chain connecting them aren't complete yet," says Brooks, who led the Science study.
He led the science team, which included members from Cornell University, University of Maryland, University of Arizona, Brown University, Belton Space Exploration Initiatives, JPL, University of Hawaii, SAIC, Ball Aerospace, and Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik.
The implication is that logical formalism leads the sciences to form static universals into which all particulars can be neatly placed.
Or, for that matter, that there's no way for him to lead the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
