Publications and Events

2012

AAAS Briefing on Sequestration
November 15, 2012• 2212 Rayburn House Office Building

Science and Society: Global Challenges Discussion Series
AAAS Auditorium 1200 New York Avenue NW

• December 10,2012• Climate Change: The Arctic as an Emerging Market
• Host: Richard Harris
• Heather Conley, Senior Fellow and Director, Europe Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies
• Jed Hamilton, Senior Arctic Consultant, ExxonMobil Corporation
• Julienne Stroeve, Research Scientists III, National Snow & Ice Data Center

Science and Society: Global Challenges Discussion Series
AAAS Auditorium 1200 New York Avenue NW

• October 15, 2012• Energy-Water-Food Nexus: Connections and Conflicts
• Host: Richard Harris
• Nicole T. Carter, Specialist in Natural Resources Policy, Congressional Research Service
• Melissa D. Ho, Senior Policy Advisor, Bureau for Food Security, US Agency for International Development
• Cathleen Enright, Executive Vice President, Food and Agriculture, BIO

Science and Society: Global Challenges Discussion Series
AAAS Auditorium 1200 New York Avenue NW

• October 1, 2012
• Biosecurity: Confronting Existent and Emerging Unknowns
• Host: David Kestenbaum
• CDR Chris Bidwell, U.S. Navy, currently assigned to the Defense Threat
  Reduction Agency and Chair of the Arms Control, Nonproliferation and
  Disarmament Interest Group Section of the American Society for
  International Law
• Randall “Randy” Murch, Associate Director, Research Program
  Development, Virginia Tech
• Kristin Omberg, Deputy Division Leader, Decision Applications Division,
  Los Alamos National Laboratory
  

Impacts of Sequestration on Science Budgets
 Read the new brief from the AAAS R&D Budget and Policy Program here. *Early-Onset

Alzheimer's Disease
September 12, 2012

• Patrick Griffith, M.D., Professor of Clinical Medicine, Chief of Neurology, Morehouse School of Medicine.
• Murrary Grossman, M.D., Ph.D., Professor, Neurology and Psychiatry, Director of the Frontotemporal Degeneration Center, University of Pennsylvania.

Translational Science: From Research to Practice
July 31, 2012

• Garret Fitzgerald, M.D., University of Pennsylvania

Mental Health in Early Adulthood
July 19, 2012

• Abilgail Baird, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Psychology, Vassar College

Early Brain Development and Early Education
June 25, 2012

• James Griffin, Ph.D., Deputy Chief, Child Development and Behavior Branch; Director, Early Learning and School Readiness Program, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
• Martha Farah, Ph.D., Director, Center for Neuroscience and Society, University of Pennsylvania

AAAS Launches Election 2012 Site


• The AAAS Office of Government Relations has developed a Web site that describes and tracks the candidates' positions on science, technology, and innovation issues.

AAAS Participates in Climate Science Day


• February 1 marked the second annual Climate Science Day, an opportunity for scientists of many disciplines to visit Capitol Hill and meet with members of Congress to discuss climate science. The event was a joint effort of the intersociety Climate Science Working Group, which comprises a dozen scientific professional societies and research organizations, including AAAS