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  • Internet Rights and Wrongs: Choices & Challenges in a Networked World
    Internet Rights and Wrongs: Choices & Challenges in a Networked World

    February 15, 2011 - Thank you all very much and good afternoon. It is a pleasure, once again, to be back on the campus of the George Washington University, a place that I have spent quite a bit of time in all different settings over the last now nearly 20 years. I’d like especially to thank President Knapp and Provost Lerman, because this is a great opportunity for me to address such a significant issue... View Video »

  • U.S. Science Envoys
    U.S. Science Envoys

    March 2010 A new diplomacy effort sends scientists to North Africa, Southeast Asia and beyond to strengthen partnerships and help solve global challenges. How does science impact your life? Find out more and share your thoughts.. 

  • Atlantis Launch Begins Final Repair Mission for Space Telescope
    Atlantis Launch Begins Final Repair Mission for Space Telescope

    Washington — Space shuttle Atlantis and its seven-member crew began the fifth and final repair mission for the nearly 20-year-old Hubble Space Telescope May 11 with a midafternoon launch from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. 

  • Apollo 40th Anniversary
    Apollo 40th Anniversary

    May 2009 It all started on May 25, 1961, when President John F. Kennedy announced the goal of sending astronauts to the moon before the end of the decade. Coming just three weeks after Mercury astronaut Alan Shepard became the first American in space, Kennedy's bold challenge set the nation on a journey unlike any before in human history.  

  • U.S. Scientists Reach Out to North Korean Counterparts
    U.S. Scientists Reach Out to North Korean Counterparts

    February 20, 2009 Chicago — Even though the United States and North Korea maintain no diplomatic ties, a collaboration between students at Syracuse University in New York and Kim Chaek University of Technology in Pyongyang (KUT) might be the beginning of a scientific relationship between the two nations. At the annual meeting of the American Association for the ...  

  • New NASA Spacecraft Dedicated to Studying Carbon Dioxide
    New NASA Spacecraft Dedicated to Studying Carbon Dioxide

    Washington — NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO) will launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on February 23, the first U.S. spacecraft dedicated to studying atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2), the greenhouse gas that is warming the planet and changing global climate. ... 

 

 

 

 

 

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