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Center Breaking News
2 January 2008
Lisa Dilling's book, Creating a Climate for Change: Communicating Climate Change and Facilitating Social Change, is now available in paperback!
15 November 2007
Roger Pielke, Jr. is scheduled to appear on NPR's Science Friday to discuss his recent article in Nature about the presidential science adviser and the past 50 years of presidential science advice. Please tune in on November 16 at 3:00 pm (Eastern Standard Time).
1 November 2007
Roger Pielke, Jr. was interviewed in November 2007 edition of Geotimes on his book: The Honest Broker: Making Sense of Science in Policy and Politics.
12 October 2007
Center Faculty Affiliate, Susan Avery, named New Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution President and Director.
26 September 2007
Faculty Position Open for CIRES Center for Science and Technology Policy Research Director.
23 August 2007
NEW reviews out in August 2007 editions of Science and Nature on Roger Pielke Jr.'s book The Honest Broker: Making Sense of Science in Policy and Politics.
31 July 2007
Center Interim Director, Bill Lewis, appeared before a House Natural Resources Committee hearing on July 31, 2007 on "Crisis of Confidence: The Political Influence of the Bush Administration on Agency Science and Decision-Making."
13 July 2007
Roger Pielke, Jr. was interviewed in the July 2007 OST's Bridges on his new book The Honest Broker and Roles of Scientists in STP: "The Honest Broker": bridges Columnist Kicks off the "bridges Lecture Series" with Talk on the Roles of Scientists in S&T Policy by Juliet M. Beverly.
15 June 2007
Roger Pielke, Jr., who has directed the CIRES Center for Science and Technology Policy Research since its inception in 2001, has ended his term serving as director of the Center and is headed for a year-long sabbatical at the James Martin Institute for Science and Civilization. CIRES Associate Director Dr. William Lewis will serve as the Interim Director of the Policy Center. Bill has considerable experience with science and policy issues and is a leader on campus and at CIRES. We are very pleased that he will be associated with the Center. Read More...
16 May 2007
Roger Pielke, Jr. testified before the House Committee on Science and Technology of the United States House of Representatives on "The State of Climate Change Science 2007: The Findings of the Fourth Assessment Report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Working Group III: Mitigation of Climate Change". Hearing details are posted here. Roger's testimony can be read here.
3 April 2007
The Honest Broker: Making Sense of Science in Policy and Politics by Roger A. Pielke, Jr. is now available.
5 February 2007
Creating a Climate for Change: Communicating Climate Change and Facilitating Social Change by Susanne C. Moser and Lisa Dilling (Eds.) is now available.
30 January 2007
Roger Pielke, Jr. testified before U.S. Congress House Government Reform Committee on the subject of Political Interference in the Work of Government Climate Change Scientists. Hearing details are posted here. Roger's Congressional testimony can be read here.
8 January 2007
A New & Upcoming Book Releases page has just been added to our website. Here you can find when a Center author's book is coming out, read table of contents, reviews, and links to order.
1 November 2006
The Center for Science and Technology Policy Research is recruiting for two faculty positions at the assistant/associate (with tenure) level in science and technology policy research with a focus on decision making under uncertainty.
17 October 2006
The Climate Change and Disaster Losses Workshop Report is now available online.
23 August 2006
Roger Pielke, Jr. was awarded the Eduard Brückner Prize for outstanding achievement in interdisciplinary climate science. He will be receiving his award in Munich, Germany at the Deutsche Klimatagung (German Climate Conference) in October 2006. More details in english will be posted soon.
20 July 2006
Roger Pielke Jr. testified before the House Government Reform Committee on the subject of climate change. Hearing details are posted here. Roger's Congressional testimony can be read here.
21 May 2006
Roger Pielke, Jr. was featured on the television Fox News Documentary Global Warming: The Debate Continues.
30 March 2006
Roger Pielke, Jr. was featured in Nature Journal along with his father, Pielke Sr., on the climate change debate, Climate science: The son also rises.
16 March 2006
Roger Pielke, Jr. was interviewed with Greenwire's OnPoint about the rising costs of natural disasters, CLIMATE CHANGE: CU-Boulder's Roger Pielke talks about the rising cost of natural disasters.
17 February 2006
Roger Pielke, Jr. will be part of the Ocean Studies Board’s Seventh Annual Roger Revelle Commemorative Lecture in Washington, DC. He will be giving a talk "Disasters, Death and Destruction: Accounting for Recent Calamities" 5:30pm March 15 in the Baird Auditorium at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History.
1 February 2006
Myanna Lahsen's paper, Seductive Simulations? Uncertainty Distribution Around Climate Models, was cited in a Wall Street Journal opinion column about the role of science in the climate debate.
22 December 2005
Dr. Frank Press, science advisor to President Jimmy Carter (1977-1980), has been added to the Presidential Science Advisor series. Dr. Press will speak on April 11 at 7 pm in MCD Biology Room A2B70 on the CU-Boulder campus. For more information see the series website.
Transcripts of the talks of Drs. Neal Lane and Donald Hornig are now available online:
Dr. Lane transcript
Dr. Hornig transcript
2 December 2005
Roger Pielke, Jr. participated in the series Lezione Italiane in Milan, Italy related to the publication of his most recent book, Science e Politia, by Latzera Press (Rome). The series, sponsored by the Sigma Tau Foundazione, Laterza Press and the University of Milan focused on the role of science in policy and politics.
18 November 2005
Center Affiliate, Dan Sarewitz highlighted in Chronicle of Higher Education article (subscription required)
9 November 2005
The Center has two new publications, one addressing attribution of recent disaster losses, the other addressing societal implications research for the National Nanotechnology Program
17 October 2005
University of Colorado News Release
Science Adviser to Lyndon Johnson to Speak to CU-Boulder Oct. 24