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What's New
- AAAS will convene a workshop on developing a research agenda for electronic
voting technologies September 17-18, 2004. The meeting will bring together
technical and cyber-security experts, election officials, social and
behavioral scientists, and public interest representatives to develop
a research agenda in anticipation of the 2004 election and its aftermath.
The research agenda is intended to direct researchers to work that could
be done in preparation for the November election and in conducting post-election
analyses. AAAS will publicly announce the distribution of products from
the meeting on this website.
- AAAS is cosponsoring a conference on institutional conflict of interest
to be held on 2-3 December 2004 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Early bird registration
ends 30 August 2004. Additional information can be found here
- In
Search of J. Doe: Can Anonymity Survive in Our Post-9/11 Society?
Co-sponsored by AAAS, The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars,
and the American Bar Association Section of Science and Technology Law,
this meeting focused on the concept and uses of anonymity - why it has
endured, the social benefits as well as risks, and whether it, or aspects
of it, should be preserved in a post-9/11 environment.
- AAAS has released an introduction to the science of behavioral
genetics and its social and ethical implications, now available
for download.
- The Challenges of Ethics Consulting in the Biotechnology Industry
is a project that will document the policies and practices related to
ethics consulting for the biotechnology industry. The data will be made
publicly available on the AAAS website.
- Science and National Security
in the Post-9/11 Environment This project examines the impacts of
post 9/11 national security policies on the conduct and communication
of science.
- The product of a multi-year effort based on a AAAS study, Designing
Our Descendants
is a publication that presents twenty diverse essays by physicians,
scientists, philosophers, theologians, lawyers, and policy analysts
addressing the scientific, ethical, religious, and regulatory issues
surrounding human inheritable genetic modification technology.
Click here to see a complete list of current and
past projects.
Internships
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