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Emerging Trends in S&T Diplomacy: Innovation, Competitiveness and Intellectual Security in a Globalizing World

A Technology and Innovation Seminar; Part of the CISTP Seminar Series on Science, Technology, and Innovation

Wednesday, December 10, 2008 5:00 - 6:30pm
Lindner Family Commons, 6th Floor
The Elliott School of International Affairs
1957 E Street, NW

Andrew W. Reynolds,Deputy S&T Adviser to the Secretary of State U.S. Department of State.

The presentation file of the seminar is available here.

About the speaker: Since August 2000, Mr. Reynolds, a career civil servant, has served as Deputy and chief of staff for the Office of the Science and Technology Adviser to the Secretary of State (STAS), U.S. Department of State. The STAS leads efforts to augment S&T personnel and literacy at the Department, to strengthen outreach to the domestic and international S&T community, and to foster mid- to long-term strategic planning to address science, engineering and technology issues in foreign policy at State Department and within the U.S. government, including the defense and intelligence communities.

Mr. Reynolds began his career in 1974 with Systems Sciences Incorporated, Washington, D.C., as a researcher for energy and public health issues. He joined the Federal Energy Agency in 1975 and, subsequently, the Energy Information Administration of the Department of Energy (DOE), where he specialized in electricity, nuclear power and energy supply and demand forecasting and analysis. From 1983-1986 Reynolds was posted in Paris as DOE Representative for Europe in the US Mission to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. He returned to Washington as Deputy Director for the DOE Office of International R&D Cooperation where he managed the U.S./U.S.S.R. Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy agreement. He is an expert on the Three Mile Island and Chernobyl accidents.

Mr. Reynolds joined the State Department in 1990 as Deputy Director of the Office of Science and Technology Cooperation and, in 1994-96, served as S&T advisor to the U.S./Russia Cooperative Commission co-chaired by Vice President Al Gore and Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin. From October 1996 to August 2000, Reynolds was posted as Counselor for Environment, Science and Technology at the U.S. Embassy in Rome under a Limited Foreign Service appointment. During his career he has been regularly recognized for his performance and service, including with Meritorious and Superior Honor Awards from the Department of State.

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The Geopolitics of Energy

A Technology and Innovation Seminar; Part of the CISTP Seminar Series on Science, Technology, and Innovation

Wednesday, October 8, 2008
5 p.m. - 6:30p.m.
Lindner Family Commons, 6th Floor
The Elliott School of International Affairs
1957 E Street, NW

Dr. James Conca, Director, New Mexico State University, Carlsbad Environmental Monitoring and Research Center

Dr. JAMES L. CONCA is the Director of the New Mexico State University Carlsbad Environmental Monitoring and Research Center (CEMRC), a radiochemistry facility dedicated to environmental monitoring and mitigation of radioactive materials, and the development of sustainable energy distributions. Conca obtained a Ph.D. in Geochemistry in 1985, and a Masters in Planetary Science, from the California Institute of Technology, and a BS in Geology and Biochemistry from Brown University in 1979. Conca has been developing and testing laboratory and field technologies for disposal of radioactive waste, mitigation of dirty bomb effects, and remediation of metal contamination in groundwater and soil. He came to NMSU from Los Alamos National Laboratory where he was Project Leader for Radionuclide Geochemistry. Before that, Conca was on the faculty at Washington State University, was President of UFA Ventures, Inc, and a consultant for DOE, DoD, EPA, USGS and private industry. He is going to talk today about his recent book with co-author Dr. Judith Wright, titled The GeoPolitics of Energy: Achieving a Just and Sustainable Energy Distribution by 2040.
Download the presentation abstract

Policy, Technology & Futures

Part of the CISTP Seminar Series on Science, Technology, and Innovation

Wednesday, September 17, 2008
5 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
Lindner Family Commons, 6th Floor
The Elliott School of International Affairs
1957 E Street, NW

Clement Bezold, Chairman of the Board and Founder of the Institute of Alternative Futures

Dr. Bezold will discuss The 2029 Project — looking at the future of Biomedical R&D and the involvement of IAF in Health Disparities Reducing Advances (DRA) Project — during his talk.
Read a synopsis of his talk

WREN Workshop

Friday, June 6, 2008
George Washington University Marvin Center
H and 21st Streets, N.W.,
Washington, D.C.

The Washington Research Evaluation Network (WREN) is pleased to announce the first of two workshop networking opportunities this year. The purpose of WREN is to facilitate the conduct and advancement of R&D evaluation via knowledge transfer and networking among federal evaluation practitioners, academicians, and contractors conducting R&D evaluation.
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Entrepreneurship and Social Value

Part of the GWU-GMU-Georgetown Technology, Science, and Innovation Policy Research Series

Thursday, March. 6, 2008
12 noon - 1:30 p.m.
AOB 268 GMU Arlington campus (Metro Orange Line)
Arlington, VA
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Philip Auerswald, School of Public Policy, George Mason University

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