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FYI
The American Institute of Physics Bulletin of Science Policy News
Number 124: September 26, 2003
AIP Seeks Applications for 2004-5 State Department Science Fellowship
As reported in FYI #123, AIP's first Science Fellow in the State
Department, George Atkinson, has been named as the Science and Technology
Advisor to Secretary of State Colin Powell. AIP is now seeking applicants
for the fourth year of its State Department Fellowship, and qualified
scientists at any stage of their career are encouraged to
apply. Information on applying for the 2004-2005 Fellowship term by the
November 1 deadline is provided below; interested readers can also see our
web site at http://www.aip.org/mgr/sdf.html/ for more information on the
program.
The AIP State Department Science Fellowship enables scientists to spend a
year working in a bureau or office of the U.S. Department of State. The
Fellows not only learn about, but become actively involved in, the foreign
policy process, while contributing their scientific and technical
expertise and analytical capabilities to the Department.
Atkinson succeeds Norman Neureiter in the role of S&T Adviser. Neureiter
served a three-year term as the first Science and Technology Adviser in
the State Department, a position created in response to the 1999 National
Research Council report entitled "The Pervasive Role of Science,
Technology, and Health in Foreign Policy: Imperatives for the Department
of State." The report, which declared that scientific and technological
developments "cannot be isolated from the fundamental workings of foreign
policy," was also the impetus for AIP's State Department Fellowship,
modeled on its successful Congressional Science Fellowship. Both AIP
programs are run under the auspices of the Association for the Advancement
of Science's (AAAS) Science and Technology Policy Fellowships. While AAAS
has for years placed Diplomacy Fellows at the State Department, to be
supported by departmental funds, AIP was the first scientific society to
sponsor Fellows at the State Department with its own!
funds. (Currently, the American Astronomical Society also contributes
to AIP's State Department Science Fellowship.) Neureiter called AIP "a
pacesetter" for initiating "the first paid...fellowship program of any
professional society."
In an indication of the enthusiasm with which AIP's Fellowship program has
been received at the State Department, in each year of the Fellowship so
far, the Department has provided funding of its own to place another of
AIP's fellowship finalists to serve as a second AIP State Department
Science Fellow. The two new 2003-2004 Fellows, Carol Christian and Edward
Whittaker, have just completed a two-week AAAS orientation and are
preparing to begin their Fellowship terms at the department. Christian, a
research astrophysicist who is head of the Space Telescope Science
Institute's Office of Public Outreach, will work in the E-Diplomacy Office
of the Bureau of Resource Management. Whittaker, a professor of physics
and engineering at the Stevens Institute of Technology, plans to serve his
Fellowship in the Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, Directorate of
Defense Trade Controls. Christian is a member of AAS, while Whittaker is
a member of both APS and OSA.
Approximately 30 science and engineering societies, including AIP and
three of its Member Societies (the American Physical Society, the American
Geophysical Union, and the Optical Society of America) sponsor Fellows to
work in federal agencies or congressional offices as part of the AAAS
Science and Technology Policy Fellowships program. This year, AAAS is
celebrating the 30th anniversary of its Fellowship programs. (A September
18 Washington Post article on the Fellowships can be read without charge
until October 2 at
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26679-2003Sep17.html). (For
information on the AIP and Member Society Congressional Science
Fellowships, please see http://www.aip.org/pubinfo/).
TO APPLY FOR THE 2004-2005 AIP STATE DEPARTMENT FELLOWSHIP:
Applicants must be U.S. citizens, have a PhD in physics or a closely
related field, be members of one or more of AIP's ten Member Societies,
and be eligible to receive an appropriate security clearance prior to
starting the Fellowship. (In exceptional cases the PhD requirement may be
waived for outstanding applicants with equivalent research
experience.) Qualified scientists at any stage of their career will be
considered. Once selected, the Fellow works with the State Department to
arrange an assignment. The following materials should be submitted by
mail or email to be considered for the Fellowship selection:
COVER SHEET, indicating name, address, phone, email, U.S. citizenship, PhD
status, AIP Member Society membership, and names of references.
LETTER OF INTENT, limited to two pages, indicating your reason for
applying, scientific background, foreign policy interest or experience,
and why you think you would be effective in this position.
RESUME, limited to two pages, with no more than 3 to 5 major publications
listed.
THREE LETTERS OF REFERENCE should be submitted by those having direct
knowledge of the applicant's character, competence, and attributes that
would make the candidate suitable for this position.
ALL MATERIALS may be submitted by email or by mail (postmarked by November
1, 2003) to Audrey T. Leath at:
AIP State Department Science Fellowship
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse
College Park, MD 20740-3843
Email: aleath@xxxxxxx
Fax: 301-209-0846
Please see our website at http://www.aip.org/mgr/sdf.html/ or contact
Audrey Leath (aleath@xxxxxxx, 301-209-3094) if you have questions or need
additional information.
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Audrey T. Leath
Media and Government Relations Division
The American Institute of Physics
fyi@xxxxxxx www.aip.org/gov
(301) 209-3094
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