This year's festival certainly succeeded in engaging scientists, the public, and politicians in debate about such burning issues as, "Should we put our trust in scientists?", "the mobile phone controversy," and "the use of animals in science".
Engaging Scientists and Engineers in Policy a list of publications, fellowships, and internships for students and scientists interested in policy produced by a coalition of scientific and engineering societies including AAAS.
The proposed framework will facilitate research by addressing the complexity and divergent scales of problems and by engaging scientists in the disciplines needed to tackle these difficult problems.
The growing group of researchers engaged in this field led to the emergence of 'Land Change Science' as a separate, interdisciplinary, research field engaging scientists across the social, economic, geographical and natural sciences [ 5,6].
There is a great precedent for engaged scientists participating in a social problem.
A balanced program to secure weapons material and technology must include a modest effort to engage scientists with dangerous expertise.
Spencer Cox joined a small committee to take on the science, hoping that by arming themselves with its language, they could engage scientists in meaningful dialogue.
What purpose, divine or adaptive, this substance might serve was once the subject of a learned debate that engaged scientists, government officials, psychiatrists, intellectuals, and a few gold-plated egomaniacs.
When Web users can review research in progress and engage scientists in open discussions, the traditional process of peer review based on the model of academic publishing will face some new challenges.
Now that this berms have been given permits, the Louisiana governor's office and the Corps of Engineers should, at the very least, engage scientists and engineers to monitor the first berm to see how it performs and examine any unintended impacts.
