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Meet FAST at the AAAS Meeting

A winter meeting of members was held a few weeks ago at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). With over 140,000 members, AAAS is an important leader within the scientific community and in Washington, DC, where the organization is strongly advocating for federal scientific funding and improved science education.

Thousands of scientists, eduators and journalists attended the 5-day meeting. With over 140 symposiaand special events, there was something for scientists of all types. Fulbrighters in attendence included Jim Leshner (CEO of the AAAS), Jim Harper (Director of the Pew Fellows Program in Marine Conservation), Proctor Reid (Staff at the National Academy of Engineering), Assad Panah (Director of the Environmental Studies Program at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford), and Eric Howard and Robert George (FAST Board Members). We also met three science journalists who had been overseas as Fulbrighters. The Council for International Exchange of Scholars (CIES), which manages the professional and scholar exchanges, had a booth at the meeting, as did several German exchange programs.

2004 AAAS Meeting in Seattle

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