May-June 2025 | Fellowship Focus

7 STPF Alumni Elected as 2024 AAAS Honorary Fellows

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Every year, AAAS elects members whose efforts on behalf of the advancement of science or its applications are scientifically or socially distinguished. Announced in March, seven STPF alumni fellows join the 151 years of honorary AAAS Fellows. Read more about their careers and journeys!
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2025 S&T Policy Forum – Call for Sessions

This October’s science policy forum will use "farm to table” policies as a guidepost to tackle the many intersections between local, state, national and global sectors that bring science to the fore to strengthen policy development and regulation.

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2025: A Defining Moment for Scientists to Step into Policy

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PODCAST | Science Under Siege (and What We Can Do)

By Angela Cleri and Mark Feuer DiTusa
Since the start of the second Trump Administration, a wave of executive actions has frozen research funding, slashed the federal science workforce, and erased publicly available data. What does this
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Featured Fellows
Alexander
Saltman

At startup GeoOptics, Alex (2006-07 fellow, U.S. House of Representatives) had the opportunity to help bring nanosatellite into use in operational weather forecasting. Now, GeoOptics is working toward harnessing the power of small satellites and network [interactions] to create inexpensive 3D maps of the Earth's surface to measure water, biomass and other crucial environmental variables. “Being a Fellow was a phase-change event in my life, broadening and deepening my understanding of the world of government and how it worked, and enabling me to build my career at the intersection of space technology and Earth science,” he says. 

Ana
Unruh Cohen

A 2001-02 STPF fellow at the U.S. House of Representatives, Ana previously worked with the Committee on Natural Resources. She returned to the House this year to support Ranking Member Rep. Jared Huffman and lead the Committee's Democratic staff in overseeing the work of the Dept. of the Interior and NOAA. "It’s good to be 'home,' especially in such challenging times for environmental policy and protections," she says. “AAAS STPF was a magic key unlocking the door to a career in policy that I didn’t know existed when I finished my graduate degree.”