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Sharing Science: Global Partnerships

October 2006

October 2006

This edition of eJournal USA focuses on science as an inherently international undertaking in which researchers share the results of their work with a scientific community that spans the planet, through a growing array of collaborative efforts, technical journals, conferences, the Internet, and dedicated high-bandwidth data networks for research and education. The eJournal has many examples of U.S. participation and leadership in these international undertakings.

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Volume 11, Number 3

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Scientific Cooperation

  • Nations in Space

    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

    The Carnegie Mellon-Qatar campus offers students in the Persian Gulf access to a highly regarded U.S. university at Education City.

  • Virtual Healing

    A program links Iraqi doctors, nurses, and medical students with hospitals and medical databases worldwide.

  • ITER: Fusion Energy Future

    The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) is a project working on environmentally benign and theoretically inexhaustible electricity.

  • GLORIAD: Cooperation in Research and Education

    GLORIAD gives scientists advanced networking tools that improve communications and data exchange, enabling active, daily, worldwide collaboration.

  • BOTUSA: A Partnership in Disease Research

    The Botswana government and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention work together on HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and sexually transmitted diseases.

In Depth

  • Curing Disparity

    To eliminate health disparities worldwide, the U.S. 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. Below are three examples of such partnerships.

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  • Total Eclipse Cooperation

    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.

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