S&T Policy Workshop

The Local and the Global: A Workshop for the Rising Generation of Science, Engineering, and Technology Policy Professionals

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Those interested in this event may also be interested be interested in the Gordon Research Conference on Frontiers of U.S. Science & Technology Policy, which will take place this summer in New London, Connecticut.

Download Tobin L. Smith's presentation on "What Scientists and Policymakers Need to Learn from each other" in pdf (964 Kb) or ppt (3.1 Mb).

Read co-organizer David Bruggeman's article about the workshop in Science's Next Wave.

When?

Friday evening through Sunday morning, April 12-14, 2002

Where?

AAAS Auditorium, 1200 New York Avenue, NW, Washington, DC

Who?

The event is open to the public and free of charge. The intended audience is the rising generation of science policy professionals, especially students and those within five years of their final degree. However, all those interested in science, engineering, and technology policy are encouraged to attend.

Sponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Virginia Polytechnic Institute, George Washington University, and George Mason University.

The emerging field of science, engineering, and technology (SE&T) policy has become a recognizable profession in recent years. As the interaction between science and government intensifies, the need for an SE&T policy workforce equipped with the tools and training necessary to negotiate this relationship is greater than ever. The purpose of this workshop is to better acquaint current and prospective SE&T policy professionals with the practice and opportunities of this emerging profession. This will be accomplished through a blend of plenary and breakout sessions led by seasoned SE&T professionals, and sessions devoted to the presentation of scholarly papers on timely SE&T policy issues. Students, young professionals, and recent graduates interested in science, engineering, and technology policy as a career or field of study are encouraged to attend.

The workshop will start Friday evening with a networking reception where participants will have an opportunity to meet established members as well as the rising generation of the SE&T policy community. Click here for information about submission of scholarly papers.

The event is scheduled so that participants can also attend the 27th Annual AAAS Colloquium on Science and Technology Policy on April 11th and 12th. The workshop represents a blending of the 2nd annual AAAS Workshop on Science and Technology Policy Careers and the Graduate Student Conference on Contexts in Science and Technology.

Click here for information about the 2001 AAAS Workshop on Science and Technology Policy Careers.