Committee on Science, Engineering and Public Policy

National Academy of Sciences-National Academy of Engineering-Institute of Medicine, Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy. "Report of the Research Briefing Panel on Chemical and Process Engineering for Biotechnology," in Research Briefings 1984. Washington, D.C. National Academy Press, 1984. 

The world in which science is conducted has changed, and so have the skills necessary for scientists to function effectively. In a report published in 1995, essential skills and characteristics of scientists were addressed by The Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy (COSEPUP), which was a joint committee of the National Academy of Science, National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine.The COSEPUP report states that a world of work that has become more interdisciplinary, collaborative, and global requires young people who are adaptable, flexible, as well as technically proficient.Subsequently, the 1996 report of the Research and Graduate Affairs Committee of the Amer-... 

Reshaping the Graduate Education of Scientists and Engineers, Committee on Science, Engineering and Public Policy National Academy Press Washington, DC, 1997. 

Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy of the National Academies. (2009). On Being a Scientist A Guide to Responsible Conduct in Research, 3rd ed. (National Academies Press Washington, DC). 

Ronald E. Hester is Professor of Chemistry in the University of York. He was for short periods a research fellow in Cambridge and an assistant professor at Cornell before being appointed to a lectureship in chemistry in York in 1965. He has been a full professor in York since 1983. His more than 300 publications are mainly in the area of vibrational spectroscopy, latterly focusing on time-resolved studies of photoreaction intermediates and on biomolecular systems in solution. He is active in environmental chemistry and is a founder member and former chairman of the Environment Group of the Royal Society of Chemistry and editor of Industry and the Environment in Perspective (RSC, 1983) and Understanding Our Environment (RSC, 1986). As a member of the Council of the UK Science and Engineering Research Council and several of its sub-committees, panels and boards, he has been heavily involved in national science policy and administration. He was, from 1991-93, a member of the UK Department of the Environment Advisory Committee on Hazardous Substances and is currently a member of the Publications and Information Board of the Royal Society of Chemistry. 

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