Message to Members: Connecting Science and Global Security
Voice Your Opinion: Science and the struggle against terrorism
Q&AAAs Interview: Dr. Norman Neureiter
AAAS in Action: News to Note
AAAS at Work: Programs at the Forefront
AAAS Announcements: Items of Interest
Read On, Online: Science Sites

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Message to Members:
CONNECTING SCIENCE AND GLOBAL SECURITY

Dear AAAS Member,

New security challenges and terrorism threats call for a strong, coordinated effort to incorporate the expertise of scientists and engineers. AAAS is responding, with the Center for Science, Technology, and Security Policy launched last spring.

The AAAS Center for Science, Technology, and Security Policy, funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, encourages the integration of science and public policy to enhance international peace and security through a communications portal connecting policy makers, policy institutes, and academic centers worldwide. This broad global network draws specialists into science and security policy, feeds the interests of the policy community back to the academic community, and speeds the delivery of balanced technical analysis to policy makers and the public at large.

Dr. Norman Neureiter, the Center’s director, talks about the initiative in a new AAAS Advances quarterly feature: Q & AAAs Interview (see below). For more information: http://www.aaas.org/programs/science_policy/cstsp/about.shtml.

AAAS is leading the effort for international scientific cooperation in addressing the world’s most urgent concerns. Thank you for your support.

Sincerely,
Alan I. Leshner, CEO, AAAS

Special Feature:
Qs & AAAs Interview with Dr. Norman Neureiter
“The hard sciences have a lot to offer in fighting terrorism. But we hope that social science will also have a contribution to finding a solution.”
Dr. Norman Neureiter, director, AAAS Center for Science, Technology, and Security Policy, made these and other comments in a recent interview. Scientist, Fulbright Fellow, U.S. Foreign Service science attaché, and international business executive, Dr. Neureiter was named science and technology adviser to the U.S. Secretary of State, serving a three-year term under Secretary Madeleine Albright and Secretary Colin Powell. Read the interview: (URL).

AAAS in Action:
NEWS TO NOTE

Now Available: Report on the Nexus of Science and Law
AAAS has released a new report titled Neuroscience and the Law: Brain, Mind, and the Scales of Justice. The report examines legal issues raised by advances in the study of the human brain, including free will, cognitive enhancement, lie detection, and behavior prediction. For a complimentary copy of a short summary, or to order the full report including four commissioned papers by leading researchers in neuroscience and legal scholars, see http://www.aaas.org/spp/neuroscience.

AAAS’s Shirley Malcom Honored
The editors of Science Spectrum and U.S. Black Engineer & Information Technology magazines have named Shirley Malcom to their list of the 50 top black scientists. Dr. Malcom, head of Education and Human Resources at AAAS, is widely seen as a leader in global efforts to improve science and engineering education and diversity in those fields. Read about her initiatives: http://www.aaas.org/news/releases/2004/0813malcom.shtml.

New AAAS Members-Only Website Launches
Now, a more innovative search engine powers the newly designed site available exclusively to AAAS members. Access Science Express for new research and Science archives for reports dating back to 1880. Find out about publications and member resources, benefits, and discounts. Check the Member Directory and Science Careers. It’s now quicker and easier to take full advantage of your membership at http://aaasmember.sciencemag.org

High Visibility at EuroScience
In late August, the first EuroScience Open Forum attracted 3,000 scientists, educators, and students to Stockholm, Sweden. AAAS’s high profile presence included a member reception hosted by AAAS CEO Alan I. Leshner and a plenary address, “Telling the Stories of Science,” by Shirley Malcom. AAAS also organized panels and seminars ranging from how science becomes headline news to government technology assessment programs. To see photos, please visit http://www.aaas.org/news/releases/2004/0831euro.shtml

AAAS at Work:
PROGRAMS AT THE FOREFRONT

Science and Technology Policy Fellowships
For the past 31 years, AAAS fellowships have offered scientists and engineers unique public policy experience while lending their technical expertise and external perspective to science and technology decision making within the U.S. government. Programs include congressional, environmental, and diplomatic areas; global security; defense policy; and homeland security.

The highly competitive fellowships use peer-review screening. One year assignments begin in September and include a series of training seminars featuring noted speakers on issues such as global climate change, agroterrorism, and science education. The deadline for 2005-06 applications is 10 January 2005. For details on program areas and requirements to qualify, go to http://fellowships.aaas.org/.

AAAS Announcements:
ITEMS OF INTEREST

Look for Science’s Biotech Careers Feature
A special careers feature in the 1 October issue of Science explores the relationships among global biotech firms and pharmaceuticals, and the types of scientists these companies need to recruit. For continuing career advice and international job listings, visit the recruitment site of Science: http://www.sciencecareers.org and http://www.sciencecareers.org/singapore. For information on placing recruitment advertising in the 1 October issue, contact Tracy Holmes: tholmes@science-int.co.uk.

Join a Pharma/Biotech Meeting in India
From 18 to 20 October, IBC Life Sciences' 2nd Annual Asia Pacific Event convenes in Mumbai, India. "Drug Discovery to Manufacturing: Global Partnering and New Science" focuses on the explosive growth of biomedical science in Asia Pacific countries. For information, go to http://www.drugdisc.com/asiapacific.

Milestones of Science Poster Free to Members
The handsomely illustrated full color AAAS poster, measuring 36” x 28”, shows the timeline of discovery from 599 B.C. to the present. Request a copy for home or classroom, where curious children and adults throughout the world can discover scientific advances around the globe: http://www.aaas.org/milestones.

The Gift of Science at Special Student Rates
Science students can belong to the largest general science society in the world at a special student discount and receive a free AAAS carryall bag! Give the gift of Science: 51 issues of our weekly journal and online access to Science archives, new research, career information, discounts on books, and more. For details and to order, go to http://promo.aaas.org/kn_marketing/fallgift_lp.html.

Where Do You Read Your Science?
Show us and you could be featured in a future advertisement. All you have to do is describe where you normally read your personal edition of Science, and then show us by sending a digital picture. We’ll select the 10 most interesting stories and images to feature in advertisements for AAAS in the coming months. Please send images, including brief descriptions, to memuser@aaas.org by 31 October 2004.

Meet Up at Upcoming Events
Stop by the AAAS booth to pick up your member pin.

-Genome Sequence and Analysis Conference XVI, Washington, D.C., 27-30 September.
Information: http://www.tigr.org/conf/gsac/.
-NIH 2004 Research Festival, Bethesda, MD, 28 September-1 October. Information:
http://festival04.nih.gov/.

READ ON, ONLINE
AAAS News & Notes appears in Science in the last issue of each month. Or access http://www.aaas.org/ or http://www.scienceonline.org/.