AAAS Gathering In Boston

1993 AAAS Meeting: Science And Education For The Future More than 4,000 scientists are expected at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, to be held in Boston February 11-16. Meeting highlights: Three days of symposia entitled "Future Chemistry: From Carbon to Silicon," February 14-16. Nano-engineering will be the focus of lectures by 20 different speakers. A special one-day symposium, "Science Education Reform in America," Saturday, February 13. Amon

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1993 AAAS Meeting: Science And Education For The Future

More than 4,000 scientists are expected at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, to be held in Boston February 11-16.

Meeting highlights:
Three days of symposia entitled "Future Chemistry: From Carbon to Silicon," February 14-16. Nano-engineering will be the focus of lectures by 20 different speakers.






However, the agenda of topics for the 1993 meeting, which is to take place at the Hynes Convention Center, were chosen in a manner different from that of previous years. In the past, symposia proposals from individual members were submitted to the AAAS program office, which--with the advice of whomever the office wished to consult--set the meeting docket.

For the 1993 convention, symposia topics were chosen by a 14- member program committee, chaired by current AAAS president F. Sherwood Rowland. This group reviewed all ...

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