Applied sciences and engineering/Agriculture/Agronomy/Crop science
On December 7, 2012, AAAS and over one hundred other scientific societies sent a letter to the White House and Congress, urging them to avoid the sequestration.
To the President and Leadership of the U.S. Congress:
Arash Alaei and his brother Kamiar earned recognition and acclaim from the World Health Organization, the Asia Society, the Global Health Council, and other organizations for programs they started in Iran to combat the spread of HIV/AIDS.
Unfortunately, they also caught the attention of Iranian authorities.
Patricia Wallace, one of the people behind a Web site that connects, informs, and helps mentor gifted math and science students, sees the online resource as a way to nurture this country’s next generation of innovators.
Forget textbook descriptions of the legislative process and toss out preconceptions about how to get things done in Washington, a former congressional leader and a current member of Congress told a record class of AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellows as they prepared for a year in Washington agencies and congressional offices.
While nations are at times territorial about their own research programs, the trend toward a global scientific community is unmistakable, AAAS chief executive officer Alan I. Leshner wrote in a commentary published in La Stampa prior to the 2 July opening of the Euroscience Open Forum 2010 (ESOF2010) in Turin, Italy.
Return to the AAAS.org article, “The United States, Europe and the Globalization of Science”
Scientists from the United States and Europe have a long history of working together, but there is a new and important effort underway to further strengthen trans-Atlantic ties, including boosting American participation in a key European Union research program.