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Science Offers Hope Despite Recession, Expert Says

[8 September 2010]
Economics editor and writer Greg Ip told AAAS S&T Policy Fellows that his long-term outlook is optimistic, despite the recession, because of scientists whose innovation drives prosperity.
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Science: An Effective Anti-Malarial Compound?

[2 September 2010]
An anti-malarial drug candidate, currently in preclinical trials, kills the blood stages of the two major malaria parasites, researchers say in Science.
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Major EPA Support for S&T Policy Fellowships

[1 September 2010]
The AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellowships program, dating to 1973, has received a five-year, $30.1 million award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
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Science Policy

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AAAS Op-Ed Defends Research

[25 August 2010]
In an op-ed on Politico.com, AAAS CEO Alan I. Leshner denounced a report by two U.S. senators that satirizes and misrepresents valid research as government waste.
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Education

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An Outstanding Teacher for Every Classroom

[10 August 2010]
Want to motivate students? Have high expectations and believe that they can succeed, experts said at a conference funded by the National Science Foundation and organized by AAAS.
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International

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Global Agreement on Research Integrity

[17 August 2010]
At the 2nd World Conference on Research Integrity in Singapore, AAAS participants and others drafted a statement of international guidelines for promoting the integrity of research.
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Public Engagement

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AAAS Caribbean Division Celebrates 25 Years

[30 August 2010]
When the division convenes 24-25 September in Puerto Rico, it will celebrate past accomplishments and look ahead to crucial issues for the next quarter-century.
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Individual AAAS members can read all of the Science archives back to 1880!
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