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AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellowships

Fellowship Program Areas: Overview for 2010-2011

AAAS offers fellowships in four programmatic areas. Click on the programs shown for a brief description. You can also click on the placement opportunities for more detail on the types of assignments available. Specific host offices and assignments vary from year to year.


Congressional (2 placements sponsored by AAAS)

Spend a year on Capitol Hill helping to research, develop and draft legislation and provide input to policy review and oversight.

Anticipated placement opportunities:

  • Offices of Members of Congress
  • Congressional Committees

* Additional congressional placements are available through approximately 30 scientific society partners. Individuals are encouraged to apply to AAAS as well as to any partner societies for which they qualify. For more information click here.


Diplomacy, Security & Development (30-40 Placements)

Infuse scientific and technical expertise into policy development and program planning, implementation and evaluation in the areas of:

  • Foreign policy and international trade, treaty engagement, and multilateral cooperation
  • Disaster preparedness and response
  • Infrastructure, environmental, cyber and health security, terrorism and warfare prevention, and nonproliferation
  • International aid, capacity building, and development assistance

Anticipated placement opportunities:

  • Agency for International Development
  • Department of Defense
  • Department of Homeland Security
  • Department of State
  • Fogarty International Center of the National Institutes of Health
  • Foreign Agricultural Service of the Department of Agriculture


Energy, Environment, Agriculture & Natural Resources
(30-40 Placements)

Engage in projects, policies, risk assessment, evaluation, and outreach initiatives to:

  • Protect animal, plant and environmental health
  • Address ecosystem degradation, pollution, and biological threats
  • Tackle challenges and opportunities in agriculture, fisheries, climate change, and energy
  • Safeguard air, water, land, wildlife, and natural resources

Anticipated placement opportunities:

  • Department of Agriculture
  • Forest Service
  • Department of Energy
  • Environmental Protection Agency
  • National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
  • National Science Foundation

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Health, Education, & Human Services (30-40 Placements)

Support improved programs, policies, planning, risk analysis, regulation, monitoring and evaluation for a broad range of initiatives in:

  • Preventive and community health, disease identification and response, and medical research
  • Individual, family and community social services, systems and support
  • Food, processing and distribution safety
  • Science education, research, and innovation

Anticipated placement opportunities:

  • Department of Health and Human Services
  • Department of Veterans Affairs
  • National Institutes of Health
  • National Science Foundation
  • Food Safety Inspection Service of the Department of Agriculture

line Roger Revelle Global Stewardship

The Roger Revelle Fellowship in Global Stewardship will not be offered for the 2010-11 fellowship year. We are unable to predict at this time when the Revelle Fellowship will be offered in the future. Please check back periodically for status updates.



  


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