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CIAO DATE: 01/07
Volume 11, Number 3, October 2006
Full Issue (PDF, 44 pages, 1.33 MB)
Contents
About This Issue (PDF, 1 page, 33 KB)
The Editors
Science and Technology: A Bridge Between Cultures and Nations (PDF, 1 page, 72 KB)
George Atkinson, PhD, Science and Technology Adviser to the Secretary of State
Nations in Space (PDF, 4 pages, 208 KB)
Scott Horowitz, PhD, Associate Administrator for the Exploration Systems Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C.
Over the past 50 years, humans have made significant strides in space exploration and in fostering the worldwide cooperation that made it possible.
In Education City (PDF, 3 pages, 127 KB)
Charles Thorpe, PhD, Dean of Carnegie Mellon University in Doha, Qatar
The Carnegie Mellon-Qatar campus offers students in the Persian Gulf access to a highly regarded U.S. university at Education City, an effort to make Qatar a world-class center for education and research.
Curing Disparity (PDF, 6 pages, 187 KB)
To eliminate health disparities worldwide, the National Institutes of Health John E. Fogarty International Center for Advanced Study in the Health Sciences fosters partnerships between U.S. scientists and foreign counterparts through grants, fellowships, exchange awards, and international agreements.
Epidemiology in Silicon
Donald Burke, MD, Dean and Jonas Salk Chair of Global Health at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public HealthEnvironmental and Occupational Health for Developing Democracies
Thomas Cook, PhD, Professor of Occupational and Environmental Health at the Center for International Rural and Environmental Health in the College of Public Health at the University of IowaGlobal Health Peru
Patricia Garcia, MD, MPH, Principal Professor in the School of Public Health at the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia in Peru and Chief of the Peruvian National Institute of Health
Total Eclipse Cooperation (PDF, 6 pages, 290 KB)
Joseph Davila, PhD, Astrophysicist in the Heliophysics Division at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland
NASA and Libyan scientists conducted joint scientific activities for the first time as they observed and studied the March 29, 2006, total eclipse of the sun, which was most visible from the desert of Libya.
Virtual Healing (PDF, 2 pages, 109 KB)
Gary Selnow, PhD, Executive Director of Wired International and a Professor With the Marian Wright Edelman Institute at San Francisco State University in California
Thousands of Iraqi doctors, nurses, and medical students are upgrading their healing skills and repairing a medical infrastructure neglected by former dictator Saddam Hussein, thanks to an innovative program linking them with hospitals and medical databases worldwide.
ITER: Fusion Energy Future
(PDF, 5 pages, 238 KB)
Norbert Holtkamp, PhD, Principal Deputy Director-General Nominee of the ITER Organization and ITER Project Construction Leader
The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) is an experimental step into the energy future, offering participating nations and the world the potential of environmentally benign and theoretically inexhaustible electricity.
BOTUSA: A Partnership in Disease Research
(PDF, 2 pages, 97 KB)
BOTUSA is an 11-year collaboration of the Botswana government and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to provide technical assistance and conduct research into the prevention, care, support, and surveillance of HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and sexually transmitted diseases.
GLORIAD: Cooperation in Research and Education (PDF, 4 pages, 168 KB)
Greg Cole, Principal Investigator, the Global Ring Network for Advanced Applications (Gloriad) at the University of Tennessee and the U.S. Department of Energy Oak Ridge National Laboratory
GLORIAD gives scientists around the globe advanced networking tools that improve communications and data exchange, enabling active, daily collaboration worldwide on common issues in science.
Additional Reading
Bibliography (PDF, 2 pages, 58 KB)
Internet Sites (PDF, 2 pages, 58 KB)