Memo from To: phil Handler at ®
JOSHUA LEDERBERG

NOV 17 1977

How scientists can learn about policy

The industrial input mentioned here certainly .
has merit.

I wonder, though, if there is enough visibi-
lity and structure to a mechanism for 'policy-
research-leaves'’for junior faculty at the NAS.

You might have to seek acquiescence to some more
flexibility in tenure-eligibility arrangements

for such people. Were you to get a few leading
institutions to go along, in acknowledging the
value and importance of a tour like this, it
might get the ball rolling. And wouldn't,say,the.
Guggenheim Foundation be perfectly happy to
sponsor followships (at par with other objectives)
to this end. a oe

These points are, I suspect,.all. granted and
obvious: but they could well be brought out
more explicitly. I should think the Academy has
more than enough prestige to make it go.

Sincerely,

 

 

PROFESSOR JOSHUA LEDERBERG
Department of Genctics
School of Medicine

Stanford University
Stanford, California 94305