U.S. Science Delegation Completes Hopeful Three-Day Visit to Cuba | AAAS News

December 7, 2009 |

Delegation member Patrick C. Doherty, director of the U.S.-Cuba Policy Initiative for the New America Foundation, said the current effort at S&T engagement is only the third since the 1960s. In 1997, while president of AAAS, environmental microbiologist Rita Colwell led a three-person delegation that spent eight days visiting Cuban government agencies, science centers and laboratories. That yielded a 65-page book summarizing the visit and talks. ... Original Aritcle

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