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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Science</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Industry dominates Trump’s new council of science advisers</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">President Donald Trump in the Oval Office in 2017, before signing a memorandum to expand access to STEM education. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)</font></div><div>
</div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ben Guarino </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">October 22, 2019 at 2:51 PM EDT</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">President Trump revived the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology on Tuesday after nearly two years without it.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Under this administration, science and technology in America continues to advance by leaps and bounds,” said the president’s science adviser, Kelvin Droegemeier, who will chair the council, in a statement. “PCAST will be critical to our continued efforts, with each member bringing a unique expert perspective to the table.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">PCAST’s members investigate the country’s pressing scientific questions at the president’s direction. Typically, academic members of a PCAST outnumber its industry scientists. This was true for the councils under Presidents George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Industry veterans dominate Trump’s inaugural PCAST, as they did under George W. Bush. Only one of Trump’s seven new PCAST members works in academia. Two members do not have doctoral degrees.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>
</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>The newly announced members are: Catherine Bessant, the chief technology officer at Bank of America;</b> H. Fisk Johnson, chief executive at S.C. Johnson & Son; <b>IBM Research director Dario Gil;</b> Cyclo Therapeutics Vice President Sharon Hrynkow; A.N. Sreeram<b>, Dow Chemical’s chief technology officer; </b>HP Labs’ chief technology officer Shane Wall; and<b> K. Birgitta Whaley, an expert in quantum information at the University of California at Berkeley.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Trump’s PCAST will eventually expand to 16 members,</b> according to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, including additional academic scholars.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">George H.W. Bush chartered the first PCAST in 1990, following a tradition dating back to World War II of soliciting scientists and engineers to advise the White House. Trump’s PCAST comes unusually late in his administration. George W. Bush and Clinton announced their first waves of PCAST appointees within their first year as president. Obama named several scientists to his PCAST in December 2008, while president-elect.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">During the Obama administration, PCAST issued 40 reports on topics such as drinking water safety, forensic science and data privacy.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>A landmark 2012 PCAST report recommended freeing parts of the radio frequency spectrum </b>that belonged to the government. The Federal Communications Commission adopted spectrum sharing in 2015, and commercial trials are underway; Google tested new wireless technology on the 3.5 GHz band, once restricted to Navy systems, at four NASCAR races in 2017.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">After PCAST recommended in 2015 that some hearing aids should be available over-the-counter, the Food and Drug Administration began a regulatory process to allow their sale. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) cited the PCAST report when she introduced legislation in 2017 to support nonprescription hearing aids.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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