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SUMMARY:Science on the National Agenda: The Road Back
DESCRIPTION:Featuring Mike Lubell\, American Physical Society\nHosted by: B
	ennett Goldberg\n\nPart of the Physics Department Colloquia Series.\n\nSinc
	e the end of World War II\, the United States has been the engine of the wo
	rld’s economy\, and innovation and discovery have been the principal driv
	ers.  But for the last two decades\, American investment in science researc
	h and education has been waning.  Today\, our nation faces a growing challe
	nge from rapidly growing economies in Asia and other parts of the world.  A
	s Thomas Friedman noted in his best selling book\, The World Is Flat\, glob
	alization is here to stay.  Policy makers and elected officials have a shor
	t time to make decisions that will America to compete on the new playing fi
	eld.  Putting science back on the national agenda is key to any success.  W
	e will look at some of the critical benchmarks of innovation and follow the
	 recent journey in Washington that led to the President’s embrace of the 
	American Competitiveness Initiative.  We will also examine the political la
	ndscape\, the public attitudes that contribute to political decision-making
	 and the reactions of the scientific community that will largely determine 
	whether the initiative will succeed in the long term.\n\n### Biography\n\nM
	ichael S. Lubell is Professor of Physics Department at the City College of 
	the City University of New York (CCNY) and the Director of Public Affairs o
	f The American Physical Society (APS).  Dr. Lubell earned his B.A. (1963) f
	rom Columbia University\, and his M.S. (1965) and Ph.D. (1969) from Yale Un
	iversity.  He served on the faculty of Yale from 1971 to 1980 before joinin
	g the Physics Department at CCNY in 1980\, where he was Department Chair fr
	om 1999 to 2005.  He has held fellowships from the U.S. Atomic Energy Commi
	ssion\, the National Science Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
	  He has also held concurrent positions Brookhaven National Laboratory\, th
	e University of Texas-Austin the Santa Barbara Institute of Theoretical Phy
	sics and Universität Bielefeld.  He is a Fellow of the American Physical S
	ociety (APS) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science\, 
	and his biography appears in Who’s Who in America and Who’s Who in the 
	World.\n\n Dr. Lubell's publications comprise more than 100 articles and 85
	 conference abstracts in scientific journals and books covering subjects in
	 the fields of high-energy physics\, nuclear physics\, atomic\, molecular a
	nd optical (AMO) physics\, and science policy.  His use of polarized electr
	ons to probe fundamental processes in atoms\, nuclei and nucleons is intern
	ationally known.  His research interests now center on AMO studies of quant
	um chaos and simple molecular systems.  He has delivered more than 150 invi
	ted lectures and has appeared on radio and TV in North America and Europe. 
	 He is one of the experts most frequently quoted by the national and scient
	ific media on public policy issues.  He is also credited as being one of th
	e pioneers of science lobbying in Washington and is regarded as one of its 
	most effective practitioners.  He has served on many scientific advisory co
	mmittees inside and outside government.  Dr. Lubell has also been a newspap
	er columnist and presently writes a bimonthly opinion piece\, "Inside the B
	eltway\," for APS News\, which has a circulation of 45\,000.  He has been a
	ctive in local\, state and national politics for more than forty years and 
	has served as an advisor to several members of Congress.
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