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.
George Atkinson, PhD, Science and Technology Adviser to the Secretary of State
Over the past 50 years, humans have made significant strides in space exploration and in fostering the worldwide cooperation that made it possible.
The Carnegie Mellon-Qatar campus offers students in the Persian Gulf access to a highly regarded U.S. university at Education City.
A program links Iraqi doctors, nurses, and medical students with hospitals and medical databases worldwide.
The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) is a project working on environmentally benign and theoretically inexhaustible electricity.
GLORIAD gives scientists advanced networking tools that improve communications and data exchange, enabling active, daily, worldwide collaboration.
The Botswana government and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention work together on HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and sexually transmitted diseases.
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.
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.
This site delivers information about current U.S. foreign policy and about American life and culture. It is produced by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of International Information Programs. Links to other Internet sites should not be construed as an endorsement of the views contained therein.