Update to Previous Entry – Russian Scientist, Professor and Environmentalist Elena Musikhina departed Russia for Canada after being notified that authorities were planning on issuing criminal charges against her to stop her research of the pollution of Lake Baikal. Musikhina and her husband went to stay with their daughter who had taken up permanent residency in Canada. While there, Elena and her husband applied for political asylum, which was not granted for failure to prove that there was a compelling and life threatening reason for it to be granted. They appealed and still were denied asylum, a deportation order was issued from the Canadian Courts requiring them to return to Russia on December 3rd and providing them with return tickets. Due to the environmental studies that she had conducted as well as accidents that had taken the lives of others involved in the studies, Musikhina was alarmed at the instructions to return to Russia, knowing full well that it would mean immediate arrest of her and her husband. CCS appealed to the Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau. Following CCS appeal Musikhina was notified that her deportation order was rescinded and that she and her husband were granted a two year temporary residency in Canada. Musikhina wrote to CCS thanking us for our support in her case and sharing her delight with the results. CCS sincerely thanks Prime Minister Trudeau and the government of Canada for doing the right thing.
Who We Are
Co-chairs
Joel L. Lebowitz, Rutgers University
Paul H. Plotz, M.D., Washington, DC
Walter Reich, George Washington University
Eugene Chudnovsky, Lehman College
Alexander Greer, Brooklyn College
Vice-chairs
Astronomy – Arno Penzias, New Enterprises Associates*
Biology – Max E. Gottesman, Columbia University
Chemistry – Zafra Lerman, MIMSAD Inc.
Computer Science – Jack Minker, University of Maryland, College Park
Engineering – Philip Sarachik, NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering
Mathematics – Simon Levin, Princeton University
Medical Sciences – J. Joseph Blum, Duke University
National Sponsors
Nancy Andrews, Duke University
David Baltimore, California Institute of Technology*
Alan J. Bard, University of Texas
Jacob Bigeleisen (deceased), SUNY, Stony Brook
Raoul Bott (deceased), Harvard University
Owen Chamberlain (deceased), University of California, Berkeley
Stanley Deser, Brandeis University
Edward Gerjuoy, University of Pittsburg
Pierre Hohenberg, New York University
James Langer, University of California, Santa Barbara
Peter Lax, New York University
Louis Nirenberg, New York University
Marshall Nirenberg (deceased), National Institutes of Health*
National Sponsors
John C. Polanyi, University of Toronto*
Stuart Rice, University of Chicago
Myriam Sarachick, City College of New York
Harold Scheraga, Cornell University
Sylvan Schweber, Brandeis University
Maxine Singer, Carnegie Institution of Washington
Alfred I. Tauber, Boston University
Steven Weinberg, University of Texas, Austin*
Myrna Weissman, Columbia University
Rosalyn S. Yalow (deceased), Mount Sinai School of Medicine*
* Nobel laureate
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