For those who have had trouble adding their name to the petition
against the Executive Order on immigration, please note that the
organizers have now changed the email address to the one given below.
I've excerpted the petition and instructions here.

The entire petition and list of supporters can be found at
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__notoimmigrationban.com_&d=CwIFaQ&c=eLbWYnpnzycBCgmb7vCI4uqNEB9RSjOdn_5nBEmmeq0&r=Oo4TCJF8pXcsWPDC7Sy8bdP2IJ6ZbST0v2xdYtuNH80&m=NHNY2YBbjPMl_ZjTxb4Gw6uFwswFnXNRN6WIeJ_EVB0&s=8odz2iaMg2kpd6gY-fTLatVGb8ClaHBwCHdz6Wiw67M&e= 

All best,
Carol


ACADEMICS AGAINST IMMIGRATION EXECUTIVE ORDER


Thank you for your overwhelming support.
Please accept our apologies if you have faced difficulties sending
emails, due to the high traffic of the site.
Please note our new email address below.
We are still gathering and verifying every signature. Thus names may
be added with some delay.
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To add your name, please send an email to [send AT NoToImmigrationBan
DOT com] from your academic email.
The subject of your email must be one line: name, award/distinction,
title, affiliation
(e.g. John Doe, Nobel Laureate (Physics 1999), Professor, Harvard University)
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Latest Summary of Signatures Received:
Over 18,000 Academic Supporters
14,800 U.S. Faculty Members
50 Nobel Laureates
82 Winners of Fields/Dirac/Clark/Turing/Poincare Medals, Breakthrough
Prize, Pulitzer Prize, MacArthur Fellowship
443 Members of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, Arts
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The Petition


President Donald Trump has signed an Executive Order (EO) proposing a
90-day suspension of visas and other immigration benefits to all
nationals of Iran, Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Yemen, Libya and Somalia. The
unrealistic conditions required for discontinuing the suspension make
it very likely that this EO will turn into a permanent ban. We, the
undersigned academics and researchers from a variety of fields of
study, backgrounds, and personal convictions, would like to voice our
concern and strongly oppose this measure on three grounds:

1.    This Executive Order is discriminatory. The EO unfairly targets
a large group of immigrants and non-immigrants on the basis of their
countries of origin, all of which are nations with a majority Muslim
population. This is a major step towards implementing the stringent
racial and religious profiling promised on the campaign trail. The
United States is a democratic nation, and ethnic and religious
profiling are in stark contrast to the values and principles we hold.

2.    This Executive Order is detrimental to the national interests of
the United States. The EO significantly damages American leadership in
higher education and research. US research institutes host a
significant number of researchers from the nations subjected to the
upcoming restrictions. From Iran alone, more than 3000 students have
received PhDs from American universities in the past 3 years. The
proposed EO limits collaborations with researchers from these nations
by restricting entry of these researchers to the US and can
potentially lead to departure of many talented individuals who are
current and future researchers and entrepreneurs in the US. We
strongly believe the immediate and long term consequences of this EO
do not serve our national interests.

3.    This Executive Order imposes undue burden on members of our
community. The people whose status in the United States would be
reconsidered under this EO are our students, friends, colleagues, and
members of our communities. The implementation of this EO will
necessarily tear families apart by restricting entry for family
members who live outside of the US and limiting the ability to travel
for those who reside and work in the US. These restrictions would be
applied to nearly all individuals from these countries, regardless of
their immigration status or any other circumstances. This measure is
fatally disruptive to the lives of these immigrants, their families,
and the communities of which they form an integral part. It is
inhumane, ineffective, and un-American.

These bans, as proposed, have consequences that reach beyond the scope
of national security. The unethical and discriminatory treatment of
law-abiding, hard-working, and well-integrated immigrants
fundamentally contravenes the founding principles of the United
States.

We strongly denounce this ban and urge the President to reconsider
going forward with this Executive Order.

Signed,

1) Peter Agre, Nobel Laureate (Chemistry 2003), Bloomberg
Distinguished Professor, Director Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Inst,
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
2) Philip Anderson, Nobel Laureate (Physics 1977), Princeton University
3) Richard Axel, Nobel Laureate (Physiology or Medicine 2004),
Professor, Columbia University
4) Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Nobel Laureate (Physiology or Medicine
2009), Morris Herzstein Professor of Biology and Physiology,
Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California
San Francisco
5) Michael S. Brown, Nobel Laureate (Physiology or Medicine, 1985),
Regental Professor, UT Southwestern
6) Linda B. Buck, Nobel Laureate (Medicine or Physiology 2004), Member
of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
7) Martin Chalfie, Nobel Laureate (Chemistry 2008), University
Professor, Columbia University
8) Angus Deaton, Nobel Laureate (Economics 2015), Dwight D Eisenhower
Professor of Economics and International Affairs Emeritus, Princeton
University.
9) Johann Deisenhofer, Nobel Laureate (Chemistry 1988), Member of the
National Academy of Sciences, Regental Professor, University of Texas
Southwestern Medical Center
10) Eugene F. Fama, Nobel Laureate (Economics 2013), Professor of
Finance, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago
11) Andrew Fire, Nobel Laureate (Physiology or Medicine 2006),
Professor of Pathology and Genetics, Stanford University School of
Medicine
12) Sheldon Lee Glashow, Nobel Laureate (Physics 1979), Member of the
National Academy of Sciences, Professor of Physics, Boston University
13) Lee Goldstein, Nobel Laureate (Physiology or Medicine 1985),
Associate Professor, Boston University School of Medicine and College
of Engineering
14) David Gross, Nobel Laureate (Physics 2004), Professor of Physics,
University of California Santa Barbara
15) Roger Guillemin, Nobel Laureate (Physiology or Medicine 1977),
Distinguished Professor, Salk Institute
16) Lars Peter Hansen, Nobel Laureate (Economics 2013), David
Rockefeller Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Economics
and Statistics, The University of Chicago
17) Dudley Herschbach, Nobel Laureate (Chemistry 1986), Harvard University
18) Roald Hoffmann, Nobel Laureate (Chemistry 1981), Professor
Emeritus, Cornell University
19) Robert Lucas Jr, Nobel Laureate (Economics 1995), Professor
Emeritus in Economics, University of Chicago
20) Daniel Kahneman, Nobel Laureate (Economics 2002), Presidential
Medal of Freedom 2013, Princeton University
21) Eric Kandel, Nobel Laureate (Physiology or Medicine 2000), Kavli
Professor and Director, Kavli Institute for Brain Science Co-Director,
Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute Senior
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Department of
Neuroscience, Columbia University
22) Brian Kobilka, Nobel Laureate (Chemistry 2012), Professor,
Stanford University
23) Roger Kornberg, Nobel Laureate (Chemistry 2006), Professor of
Structural Biology, Stanford University
24) Robert J. Lefkowitz, Nobel Laureate (Chemistry 2012), National
Medal of Science, HHMI, James B Duke Professor of Medicine, Duke
University
25) Tony Leggett, Nobel Laureate (Physics 2003), Macarthur Professor
aand Professor of Physics,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
26) Michael Levitt, Nobel Laureate (Chemistry 2013), Professor,
Stanford School of Medicine
27) Roderick MacKinnon, Nobel Laureate (Chemistry 2003), Professor,
Rockefeller University
28) Eric Maskin, Nobel Laureate (Economics 2007), Professor of
Economics and Mathematics, Harvard University
29) Craig C. Mello, Nobel Laureate (Physiology or Medicine 2006),
Investigator Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Professor, University of
Massachusetts Medical School
30) William E. Moerner, Nobel Laureate (Chemistry 2014), Professor,
Stanford University
31) Edvard Moser, Nobel Laureate (Physiology or Medicine 2014),
Professor in neuroscience, Norwegian University of Science and
Technology
32) May-Britt Moser, Nobel Laureate (Physiology or Medicine 2014),
Professor in Neuroscience, Chair of the Kavli Institute for Systems
Neuroscience, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
33) Roger Myerson, Nobel Laureate (Economics 2007), Glen A. Lloyd
Distinguished Service Professor in Economics, University of Chicago
34) William D. Phillips, Nobel Laureate (Physics 1997), Professor,
University of Maryland
35) Adam Riess, Nobel Laureate (Physics 2011), Professor, Johns
Hopkins University
36) Alvin Roth, Nobel Laureate (Economics 2012), Professor of
Economics, Stanford University
37) Thomas J. Sargent, Nobel Laureate (Economics 2011), Senior Fellow
Hoover Institution, Stanford University, New York University
38) Randy Schekman, Nobel Laureate (Physiology or Medicine 2013),
University of California, Berkeley
39) Brian P. Schmidt, Nobel Laureate (Physics 2011), Vice-Chancellor
and President, Australian National University
40) Christopher Sims, Nobel Laureate (Economics 2011), Professor,
Princeton University
41) Thomas A. Steitz, Nobel Laureate (Chemistry 2009), Professor of
Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University
42) Jack Szostak, Nobel Laureate (Physiology or Medicine 2009)
43) Thomas C. Südhof, Nobel Laureate (Physiology or Medicine 2013),
Professor, Stanford University School of Medicine
44) Daniel Tsui, Nobel Laureate (Physics 1998), Princeton University
45) Harold Varmus, Nobel Laureate, (Physiology or Medicine 1989),
National Medal of Science, former Director, NIH and NCI, Professor,
MD, Weill Cornell Medicine
46) Eric Wieschaus, Nobel Laureate (Medicine or Physiology 1995),
Professor of Molecular Biology, Princeton University
47) Torsten N. Wiesel, Nobel Laureate (Physiology or Medicine 1981),
President Emeritus, The Rockefeller University
48) Frank Wilczek, Nobel Laureate (Physics 2004), Herman Feshbach
Professor of Physics, MIT
49) Jody Williams, Nobel Laureate (Peace 1997); Sam and Cele Keeper
Endowed Professor in Peace and Social Justice, Graduate College of
Social Work, University of Houston
50) Gary Yohe, Nobel Laureate (Peace 2007), Huffington Foundation
Professor of Economics and Environmental Studies, Wesleyan University
51) Pierre Deligne, Fields Medalist (1978), Abel Laureate (2013),
Professor Emeritus, School of Math., Institute for Advanced Study,
Princeton NJ
52) Vladimir Drinfeld, Fields Medalist (1990), Professor of
Mathematics, University of Chicago
53) Elon Lindenstrauss, Fields Medalist (2010), Professor of
Mathematics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
54) Curtis T. McMullen, Fields Medalist (1998), Member of the National
Academy of Sciences, Cabot Professor of Mathematics, Harvard
University
55) Maryam Mirzakhani, Fields Medalist (2014), Professor of
Mathematics, Stanford University
56) Andrei Okounkov, Fields Medalist (2006), Professor, Columbia University
57) Terrence Tao, Fields Medalist (2006), Breakthrough Prize (2014),
James and Carrol Collins Professor of Mathematics, UCLA
58) Vladimir Voevodsky, Fields Medalist (2002), Professor, School of
Mathematics, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton NJ
59) Edward Witten, Fields Medalist (1990), Professor, Institute for
Advanced Study, Princeton University
60) Efim Zelmanov, Fields Medalist (1994), Professor of Mathematics,
University of California at San Diego
61) Ian Agol, Member of the National Academy of Sciences, Breakthrough
Prize, Professor of Mathematics, University of California Berkeley
62) Victor Ambros, Breakthrough Prize (Biology 2014), Member of the
National Academy of Science, Lasker Award winner (2009), Silverman
Professor of Natural Sciences, Umass Medical School
63) Nima Arkani-Hamed, Breakthrough Prize (Fundamental Physics 2012),
Professor in the School of Natural Sciences, Institute for Advanced
Study, Princeton University
64) Ed Boyden, Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, Professor, MIT
65) Chris Van Den Broeck, Co-recipient of the 2016 Special
Breakthrough Prize in Physics, Research Working Group Leader, Nikhef
66) Hannah Fair, Breakthrough Prize, Physics Graduate Student,
Syracuse University
67) Lee Samuel Finn, Breakthrough Prize (2016), Professor, Penn State
68) Archisman Ghosh, 2016 Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental
Physics, Postdoctoral Junior Scientist, Nikhef
69) Titia de Lange, Breakthrough Prize (Life Sciences), National
Academy of Science, Professor, Rockefeller University
70) Richard P. Lifton, Breakthrough Prize (Life Sciences 2014), Member
of the National Academy of Sciences, President of The Rockefeller
University
71) Kendall Mahn, Breakthrough Prize (2015), Assistant Professor,
Michigan State University.
72) Duncan Meacher, Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics
(2016), Postdoctoral researcher, Penn State
73) Guido Mueller, Breakthrough Prize and Gruber Prize (2016),
Professor or Physics, University of Florida
74) Jim Napolitano, Breakthrough Prize Fundamental Physics (2016),
Professor, Temple University
75) Alexander Polyakov, National Academy of Sciences, Breakthrough
Prize (2013), Joseph Henry Professor of physics, Princeton University.
76) David Reitze, Executive Director of the LIGO Laboratory, Caltech,
2017 NAS Award for Scientific Discovery, Breakthrough Prize (2016),
2016 Gruber Foundation Prize in Cosmology
77) Bangalore Sathyaprakash, LIGO Breakthrough Prize (2016), Bert
Elsbach Professor of Physics, Penn State
78) Richard Taylor, Breakthrough Prize (Math 2015), Member of the
National Academy Sciences, Robert and Luisa Fernholz Professor,
Institute for Advanced Study
79) Alex Urban, 2016 Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental
Physics, Postdoctoral Scholar, Caltech
80) Peter Wittich, Sloan Fellow and Breakthrough Prize Laureate
(2015), Associate Professor of Physics, Cornell University
81) Gregory W. Moore, Dirac Medal, Board of Governors Professor,
Rutgers University
82) Cumrun Vafa, Dirac Medal, Member of the National Academy of
Sciences, Breakthrough Prize (Fundamental Physics 2016), Professor of
Physics, Harvard University
83) Manuel Blum, Turing Laureate (1995), Member of the National
Academy of Sciences, Member of the National Academy of Engineering,
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Bruce Nelson
University Professor of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
84) Alan Kay, Turing Laureate
85) Dana S. Scott, Turing Laureate, Emeritus University Professor of
Mathematical Logic, Computer Science, and Philosophy, Carnegie Mellon
86) Daron Acemoglu, John Bates Clark Medal (2005), Professor of
Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
87) Susan Athey, John Bates Clark Medal (2007), The Economics of
Technology Professor, Stanford University
88) Amy Finkelstien, John Bates Clark Medal (2012), Professor of
Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
89) Matthew Gentzkow, John Bates Clark Medal (2014), Professor of
Economics, Stanford University
90) Bonnie Bassler, MacArthur Fellow (2002), Howard Hughes Medical
Institute Investigator, Squibb Professor and Chair, Department of
Molecular Biology, Princeton University
91) Bernadette J. Brooten, MacArthur Fellow (1998), Robert and Myra Kraft
92) Rogers Brubaker, MacArthur Fellow (1994), Member of American
Academy of Arts and Sciences, Professor of Sociology, University of
California, Los Angeles
93) Mari Jo Buhle, MacArthur Fellow, 1991-1996, Professor emerita, Departments
94) John O. Dabiri, MacArthur Fellow (2010), Professor of Civil and
Environmental Engineering and of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford
University
95) Ruth DeFries, Member of the National Academy of Sciences,
MacArthur Fellow, Professor, Department of Ecology, Evolution and
Environmental Biology, Columbia University,
96) William R. Dichtel, MacArthur Fellow, Professor of Chemistry,
Northwestern University
97) Pehr Harbury, MacArthur Fellow (2005), Associate Professor,
Stanford University Medical School
98) Thomas C Holt, MacArthur Fellow, 1990, Professor, University of Chicago
99) Dina Katabi, MacArthur Fellow, 2013 Andrew and Erna Viterbi
Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
100) Evelyn Fox Keller, MacArthur Fellow (1992), Professor Emer., MIT
101) Naomi Ehrich Leonard, MacArthur Fellow, Member of the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences, Edwin S. Wilsey Professor, Princeton
University

+ over 14,000 more currently listed

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