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Star science-education researcher leaves the White House
Nobel Prize winning physicist Carl Wieman, who has been a leading light in the Obama administration’s push to improve science education, is leaving his post as associate director for science at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). Wieman is stepping down as of 2 June for “personal reasons”, confirmed OSTP communications director Rick Weiss in an email to Nature today.
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