By CARRIE BUDOFF BROWN at Politico
CHICAGO – Seeking to draw a distinction with President George W. Bush, Barack Obama named his top science and technology advisers Saturday and pledged to “once again put science at the top of our agenda.”
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He announced Dr. John Holdren, a Harvard University professor, as assistant to the President for Science and Technology and Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
Jane Lubchenco, an environmental scientist and marine ecologist at Oregon State University, is Obama’s choice for administrator National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Obama also named co-chairs of the Council of Advisors on Science and Technology: Harold Varmus, a Nobel Prize winner, and Eric Lander, founding director of the Broad Institute at MIT and Harvard
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