ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCACY HIGHLAND:
Chancellor Gene Block encourages our best alumni to apply for the
White House Fellows Program, a public service leader program.
White House Fellows
Founded in 1964, the White House Fellows program is one of America's most prestigious programs for leadership and public service. White House Fellowships offer exceptional young men and women first-hand experience working at the highest levels of the federal government.
Selected individuals typically spend a year working as a full-time, paid Fellow to senior White House Staff, Cabinet Secretaries and other top-ranking government officials. Fellows also participate in an education program consisting of roundtable discussions with renowned leaders from the private and public sectors, and trips to study U.S. policy in action both domestically and internationally. Fellowships are awarded on a strictly non-partisan basis.
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Purpose
The purpose of the White House Fellows program is to provide gifted and highly motivated young Americans with some first-hand experience in the process of governing the Nation and a sense of personal involvement in the leadership of society.
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For more information
http://www.whitehouse.gov/fellows
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Application Information
The application for the 2011-2012 Class of White House Fellows will go live on Wednesday, December 1, 2010 and will remain open until Friday, January 14, 2011 at 5:59pm (EST). If you are interested in viewing a sample application, please click here.
Note that the sample application is available for reference only.
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July 8, 2009
Mr. Robert E. Fisher
7717 Church Avenue
Highland, CA 92346
Dear Mr. Fisher:
Thank you for contacting me regarding NASA's ability to deflect a hazardous Near-Earth Objects. I appreciate hearing from you.
I agree with you. NASA should be investing in long term strategies to deal with the threat of hazardous Near-Earth Objects. As I'm sure you are aware, an important change is included in NASA's Planetary Science Research Program FY 2010 budget; the Near Earth Objects Observations (NEOO) project transferred from Earth Science to Planetary Science. NEOO will continue to detect impact hazards to the Earth. Its objective is to detect and track at least 90 percent of the Near Earth Objects, asteroids, and comets that come within 1.3 Astronomical Units of the Sun, and to find those which have any potential to collide with Earth and do significant damage at the surface. A network of existing ground-based telescopes and modifications to existing space-based sensors, and supporting data processing and analysis infrastructure, will be funded to achieve this objective.
You will be pleased to learn that the 1st IAA Planetary Defense Conference issued a report entitled, "Deflecting a Hazardous Near-Earth Object" in response to a request by the U.S. National Research Council's Space Sciences Board. For your convenience, I will be sending you a copy of this report in the mail.
Again, thank you for taking the time to bring this important issue to my attention. Please be assured that I will be paying special attention to this aspect of NASA's budget as we move forward with the budget process in the 111th Congress.
Sincerely,
Jerry Lewis
Member of Congress
