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AAAS Advances - A Monthly Newsletter for AAAS Members • September 2003
This issue of Advances is sponsored by the Third International Congress on Vascular Dementia. See below for more information on this meeting.
Message to Members: Summer Highlights
Voice Your Opinion: Science and National Security
AAAS in Action: News to Note
AAAS Announcements: Items of Interest
AAAS at Work: Programs at the Forefront
Read On, Online: Science Sites
Message to Members:
Dear AAAS Member,
AAAS has spent a busy summer advancing the role of science to meet society's ever increasing demands for innovations to benefit all people.
To foster primary education in science, AAAS sponsors DC ACTS, a series of summer institutes for Washington, DC public school teachers. Read about this fascinating program:
http://www.aaas.org/news/releases/2003/0807teach.shtml. To promote science in the public interest, AAAS co-sponsored "Neuroscience and the Law," a two-day workshop on 12-13 September. Read about the ethical and social issues: http://www.aaas.org/spp/sfrl/projects/.
To provide an opportunity to learn how science is used in the world of policy making, while allowing scientists and engineers to contribute to the more effective use of technical knowledge in the making of policy, AAAS formed the Science and Technology Policy Fellowship Program. This month, the program celebrates its 30th year. To advance the careers of science and engineering students with disabilities, AAAS created the Entry Point! internship program, now in its seventh year. Read more about both of these initiatives in News to Note, below.
Vital programs such as these would not be possible without the support of our members. Thank you for your help in advancing science and serving society.
Sincerely,
Voice Your Opinion
Do you think scientific enterprise has been adversely affected by security measures imposed on the research and higher education communities since 11 September 2001?
Celebrating 30 Years of Science and Policy: AAAS Fellows
Jump Starting Careers: Entry Point!
Answering Inquiring Young Minds: Science for Kids
Funding Scientific Endeavors: R&D FY2004 Budget
Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge
AAAS Announcements:
New Member Benefit: Save on a New Subaru
Examine Genetics and the Law
Boost Your Postdoctoral Career
Learn About Drug Discovery Research
Meet Up at Upcoming Events
AAAS at Work:
Free Online Resources for Teachers of Students Aged 5-18
READ ON, ONLINE
This issue of AAAS Advances is sponsored by the Third International Congress on Vascular Dementia
SUMMER HIGHLIGHTS
Alan I. Leshner, CEO, AAAS
P.S. Congratulations to Science's Signal Transduction Knowledge Environment (STKE) on reaching yet another milestone for AAAS. View the 200th issue of STKE on 16 September.
SCIENCE AND NATIONAL SECURITY
View the results of this poll.
For more on this issue: http://www.aaas.org/spp/post911.
To read about the AAAS clearinghouse that will keep the scientific community updated:
http://www.aaas.org/news/newsandnotes/inside99.shtml.
The AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellowship Program celebrates its 30th anniversary on 18-19 September. A symposium, "Vision 2033: Linking Science and Policy for Tomorrow's World," is the focal point of the event, to be held at the Carnegie Institution of Washington. Read about the celebration (http://fellowships.aaas.org/30th/) and the impact of the program on science and policy: http://www.aaas.org/news/newsandnotes/inside99.shtml.
More than 400 science and engineering students with disabilities have benefited from paid summer internships in the public and private sectors through AAAS Entry Point! Read how the program, now in its seventh year, advances opportunities for these students and helps give society valuable professionals: http://www.aaas.org/news/newsandnotes/inside99.shtml.
From life in outer space to aliens in ocean depths to down-to-earth questions about everyday things, AAAS and Science are helping to answer the endless "whys" posed by kids. Find out how parents and teachers can use this new program of weekly science stories:
http://www.aaas.org/news/releases/2003/0623kids.shtml. Check out the website: http://www.eurekalert.org/kidsnews/.
The U.S. Congress returned from the August recess with the task of completing FY 2004 appropriations in the few weeks remaining before the start of the new fiscal year. Read the AAAS status report on proposed increases in overall U.S. R&D funding for defense and national security and the slowed National Institutes of Health budget growth: http://www.aaas.org/spp/rd/sum81503.pdf.
A joint project of the National Science Foundation and Science, this international contest was designed to recognize outstanding achievements by scientists and engineers in the use of visual media to promote understanding of research results. View the winning entries: http://www.sciencemag.org/feature/data/vis2003/ssintro.html
ITEMS OF INTEREST
In a continuing effort to give members unique and valuable benefits, we announce a special offer from the Premier Automotive Sponsor of AAAS. Now you can save up to $3,000 off the manufacturer's suggested retail price of a new Subaru. U.S. members in good standing for six or more consecutive months qualify for savings on purchase or lease from participating dealers. For details before visiting your local Subaru dealer, contact the AAAS Membership Office at 202-326-6417 or visit www.aaasmember.org/subaru.dtl. You will need to log in as an AAAS member to access this website. If you have not yet created a username and password, visit http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/activate/basic to do so. If you have forgotten your login information, visit http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/recnamepwd to have a new password generated.
On 2-3 October in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, an innovative conference examines issues that overlap the professions of law, medicine, and science. "Working at the Frontiers of Law and Science: Applications of the Human Genome" is sponsored by the American Bar Association, the American Medical Association, and AAAS. For details go to: http://www.abanet.org/scitech/genome/brochure.pdf.
"Focus on Careers: Postdocs II" is a special feature in the 19 September issue of Science. The feature looks at pressing issues encountered by this large group of scientists and covers the mission and activities of the National Postdoctoral Association. The NPA, hosted by AAAS, was founded in December 2002 to address these issues and establish policies. The article will be available online as of 19 September: http://www.sciencecareers.org. You also have free access to "The Postdoc Network," a wealth of practical advice and information available through funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Go to: http://www.nextwave.org/pdn.
On 3-5 November, in Singapore, the organizers of the Drug Discovery TechnologyTM World Congress present "Biomedical Research Applications," a forum for executives and scientists from the U.S., Europe, and Asia-Pacific. Science is the a sponsoring publication of this meeting: http://www.drugdisc.com/default.asp?source=2847-48.
Stop by the AAAS/Science booth at these meetings and receive your free AAAS member pin:
American Medical Writers Association, Miami, Florida, 18-20 September: http://www.amwa.org.
Genome Sequencing and Analysis Conference, Savannah, Georgia, 21-24 September. Hear the latest research findings and analytical methods from the world's top geneticists: http://www.tigr.org/conf/gsac/.
NIH Research Festival, Bethesda, Maryland, 14-17 October. Participate in minisymposia, poster sessions, and the NIH Job Fair for Postdoctoral and Clinical Fellows: http://festival03.nih.gov/default.htm.
International Symposium on New Horizons in Molecular Sciences and Systems, Okinawa, Japan, 16-18 October. Learn about the effectiveness of a new paradigm of integrated approaches in science and technology: http://www.okinawasympo2003.jp.
PROGRAMS AT THE FOREFRONT
AAAS Science NetLinks presents a wealth of resources to support standards-based science teaching and learning. A dynamic, easy-to-navigate home page leads to more than 400 lessons and interactive activities plus reviewed web resources, weekly science updates, and a newsletter. Innovative, useful, everyday resources allow teachers to focus on teaching rather than surfing the web in search of science materials. Encourage educators to check out the site:
http://www.sciencenetlinks.com.
AAAS News & Notes appears in Science in the last issue of each month. Or access http://www.aaas.org or http://www.scienceonline.org/.
Third International Congress on Vascular Dementia
Prague, Czech Republic, 23-26 October 2003
Preliminary program and abstracts are now available on www.kenes.com/vascular
Co-Chairmen: Pavel Kalvach, M.D., Czech Republic and Amos Korczyn, M.D., Israel
For further information, please contact the Secretariat at Kenes International:
E-mail: vascular@kenes.com
Telephone: +41 22 9080488
Fax: +41 22 7322850