AIBS NAMES 2009 EMERGING PUBLIC POLICY LEADERS

Roddy and Stewart receive a certificate, membership in AIBS, several AIBS publications, including Communicating Science: A Primer for Working with the Media and a subscription to the journal BioScience. [...] “As a young scientist conducting research at the intersection of science and public health policy, participation in the Congressional Visits Day is an invaluable opportunity for me to observe and engage in the public policy process,” said Stewart. [...] research in environmental and forest biology focuses on the effects of climate and socioeconomic factors on the distribution of dengue fever. [...] student in environmental science at the University of Rhode Island, Jessica Corman, a PhD student in biology at Arizona State University, Jonathan Hickman, a PhD candidate in ecology and evolution at Stony Brook University, and Christopher Patrick, a PhD student in ecology at Notre Dame University. [...] Today, headquartered in Washington, DC, with a staff of approximately 50, AIBS is sustained by a robust membership of some 5,000 biologists and 200 professional societies and scientific organizations; the combined individual membership of the latter exceeds 250,000.