AAAS S&T Policy Fellowships Program Receives Major EPA Support

The renowned AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellowships program this month received a five-year, $30.1 million award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Since its inception in 1973, the S&T Policy Fellowships program has sent more than 2,300 scientists and engineers to work in Congress and nearly 20 executive branch agencies and departments.

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Caribbean Division to Celebrate 25th Anniversary with a Meeting Focused on Neurobiology and Human Rights

Twenty-five years after it formed, the AAAS Caribbean Division will convene next month with a program focused on issues that could be crucial in the next quarter-century: neuroscience, science education, and the linkage between science and human rights.

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Science Translational Medicine: Restoring Vision with Biosynthetic Corneas

Laboratory-made “biosynthetic” corneas can spur damaged tissue and broken nerves to regenerate, restoring vision in human eyes just as well as donor corneas, according to a two-year study of 10 patients reported in Science Translational Medicine.

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AAAS Op-Ed Defends Research Mocked by Coburn-McCain Report

In an op-ed on Politico.com, AAAS CEO Alan I. Leshner denounced a report by U.S. Senators Tom Coburn (R-Oklahoma) and John McCain (R-Arizona) that satirizes cherry-picked research projects and misrepresents a number of valid research investigations as government waste.

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AAAS Expresses Strong Concerns Regarding Stem Cell Ruling

AAAS today expressed strong concerns that a legal ruling blocking federally funded human embryonic stem cell research will badly delay medical progress that could someday save lives and treat devastating injuries and illness.

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AAAS Arctic Division Meeting Highlights Need for More Climate Monitoring

The 2010 Annual Meeting of the AAAS Arctic Division will convene 13-15 September in Anchorage, Alaska, with the theme “Water: Integrating Health, Habitat and Economy.” Arctic residents face environmental challenges from climate change and land use, and participants at the meeting will discuss how to adapt to those challenges

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Science Report Describes Deepwater Horizon Oil Plume as of June

A peer-reviewed study, appearing today on the Science Express Web site, suggests that the blowout of BP’s Deepwater Horizon drilling rig resulted in an oil plume that was still massive in June, two months after the explosion. According to Richard Camilli of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, the research also shows that levels of dissolved oxygen within the plume had not dropped enough by mid-June to suggest bacteria were breaking down the oil.

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Singapore Conference Drafts Global Guidelines on Research Integrity

While acknowledging national and cultural differences, delegates at the 2nd World Conference on Research Integrity concluded that all scientists share a set of values that can serve as the foundation for global guidelines that promote research integrity.

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AAAS Program Evaluates Strategies to Boost Diversity in Science

Dubbed GET SET, for “Global Education for Tomorrow in Science, Engineering and Technology,” a multi-faceted AAAS effort is now underway to assess science learning and teaching strategies at predominantly underrepresented, low-income schools in Washington, D.C. The program is being supported by nearly $1.5 million from the National Science Foundation (NSF) as part of the agency’s ITEST program (“Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers”), which was established to help boost the future U.S. science and technology workforce.

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“AAAS Science and Human Rights Coalition Explores Right to Access Life-Saving Medicines

About 10 million people, primarily in the developing world, die each year because they lack access to medicines that already exist, according to Ethan Guillen, executive director of Universities Allied for Essential Medicines.

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