U.S.-Iran Engagement in Science, Engineering, and Health (2000-2009) Opportunities, Constraints, and Impacts (2010) / Chapter Skim
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2 Initiating Engagement
2 Initiating Engagement
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Also, reports of impressive achievements of Iranian graduate students, who had received their undergraduate training in Iran, at some of the best universities in the United States were frequent. Thus, expectations were high that engagement would be scientifically rewarding for the American as well as the Iranian participants even though the National Academies had few details on Iranian capabilities.
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acceptance by a limited number of Iranian scientists of invitations from American colleagues to participate in conferences in the United States. The experiences from these activities and from related efforts of several professional societies in the United States were helpful in providing guidance for the National Academies concerning how best to initiate and structure engagement activities and how to sustain such activities.
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COMMON INTERESTS IN HALTINg DEgRADATION OF THE CASPIAN SEA In the spring of 1999, a staff member of the National Academies accepted an invitation from the Institute for Political and International Studies (IPIS) in Tehran to make a presentation at a conference at the institute on developments in the Caspian Sea region.1 By coincidence, at about the same time, the National Academies and the Russian Academy of Sciences decided to hold a workshop on the ecology of the Caspian Sea in Moscow in December 1999.
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Very general discussions were held at the National Academies about the importance of international cooperation to advance science, engineering, and medicine. All participants embraced the concept of a program involving bilateral exchanges of scientists who were working in fields of mutual interest.
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Sherwood Rowland on the delegation attracted considerable admiration from the Iranian scientific community. His meetings with faculty members and graduate students who were focused on the details of ozone depletion were of particular interest to the Iranian hosts.
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The participation in the delegation of the director of the human rights program of the National Academies seemed to raise considerable interest among some Iranian participants. Discussions with scholars, human rights advocates, and an interested Iranian journalist were quickly scheduled.
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Khublaryan, editors, Ecological Problems of the Caspian Sea, Russian Academy of Sciences (in cooperation with the National Academy of Sciences) , Moscow/Kirov, 2000.
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