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Center for Public Engagement with Science and Technology

Science Insights and News Service

Under the auspices of the AAAS Center for Public Engagement with Science and Technology, the AAAS public information team has established a proactive, message-based outreach initiative that functions in tandem with an existing, well-respected news media outreach operation, which responds to breaking news as it happens.

Staff within the AAAS Science Insights and News Service leverage a "glocal" strategy—promoting local engagement in global science and technology-related issues—by placing regional op-ed articles; by providing local experts and speakers; and by working collaboratively with colleagues throughout AAAS to partner with local opinion leaders, policy-makers, school board members, clergy, the public, and the news media.

As the service gains momentum, staff will add an online media training site for AAAS members, to feature helpful how-to tips for handling media interviews, as well as talking points on key topics, from global climate change and evolution to human embryonic stem cell research.

Published and Broadcast Commentary 

AAAS's public engagement efforts have included the following newspaper opinion columns and major broadcast interviews:

Climate Change in the News

  • "Holdren on Letterman," past AAAS President John P. Holdren talking to Dave Letterman about climate change, The Late Show, CBS, 17 April 2008.

  • "Time to get serious about climate change," by John P. Holdren, past AAAS President, director of the Woods Hole Research Center and the Teresa and John Heinz Professor of Environmental Policy at Harvard University, and Alan I. Leshner, AAAS CEO and executive publisher of Science, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 July 2006.

Evolution in the News

Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research

  • "Standing in the Way of Stem Cell Research," Alan I. Leshner and James A. Thomson, Washington Post, 3 December 2007

    This Washington Post op-ed was republished in the following newspapers:

    • St. Paul Pioneer Press (3 December 2007)
    • The Sacramento Bee (4 December 2007)
    • St. Petersburg Times (4 December 2007)
    • Atlanta Journal-Constitution (5 December 2007)
    • St. Louis Post-Dispatch (5 December 2007)
    • The Star-Ledger (Newark, New Jersey; 5 December 2007)
    • The Capital Times (Madison, Wisconsin; 6 December 2007)
    • Houston Chronicle, 8 December 2007
    • Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 15 December 2007

    This Washington Post op-ed was discussed on this site:

  • "Balancing Values in the Stem Cell Debate," by Alan I. Leshner, Washington Post, 18 July 2006

Science Across Borders

Science Education

Science and Public Engagement

Science and U.S. Policy

For more information on the AAAS Science Insights and News Service, contact Ginger Pinholster in the AAAS Office of Public Programs, (202) 326-6421, gpinhols@aaas.org, or Edward W. Lempinen, (925) 945-1937, elempine@aaas.org.






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