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Agência FAPESP* –Agência FAPESP – The international symposium FAPESP Week opened on October 24, 2011 in the main auditorium of the Woodrow Wilson Center, with attendance by Mauro Vieira, Brazilian Ambassador to Washington, Michael Van Dusen, Vice-President of the Wilson Center, Cora Marrett, Deputy Director of the National Science Foundation, and Professor Daniel Janies of the Medical School of the Ohio State University, along with FAPESP President, Celso Lafer.
Through October 26th, Brazilian scientists financed by FAPESP along with their US colleagues will review the recent Brazilian production from 11 fields of knowledge and discuss the challenges ahead. The event is part of FAPESP’s 50th anniversary celebrations.
In his opening speech, Van Dusen mentioned that one of the first studies into the history of Brazilian science was done at the Wilson Center 33 years ago by Simon Schwartzman, in his work entitled, “A Space for Science – The Development of the Scientific Community in Brazil” while a scholar at the Center.
The Wilson Center is a “living memorial” in tribute to the twenty-eighth US president (1913 to 1921), where intellectuals from all over the world research and debate issues of public policy and knowledge in a variety of fields. The Brazil Institute was established at the Wilson Center in 2006. Under the direction of Journalist Paulo Sotero, it is dedicated specifically to subjects related to Brazil.
Van Dusen, who represented Wilson Center President Jane Harman (currently in Tunisia as member of the international commission observing that country’s elections), emphasized in his speech, the dual status of FAPESP President Celso Lafer as “thinker and doer,” much like Woodrow Wilson himself, the only US president to receive the title of Doctor (awarded by the Johns Hopkins University in History and Political Science).
In his speech, Brazilian Ambassador Mauro Vieira underscored the increasing level of cooperation between the US and Brazil in education and science, stating that FAPESP’s record of success serves as a further incentive for investment in research in Brazil.
Celso Lafer briefly described FAPESP and how it works, emphasizing that one of its current priorities is the internationalization of its activities, demonstrated by holding this very symposium: “We are aware that knowledge is international both in scope and in action in this globalized world, and that it can only be fully developed by expanding the contacts among scientists of the various nations.”
Cora Marrett, Deputy Director of the National Science Foundation, continued along this line of thought in stating, “science knows no national borders,” highlighting existing cooperation programs between the NSF and FAPESP (particularly in the areas of chemistry and biodiversity) and expressing her desire for increased cooperation.
Finally, Daniel Janies, from the College of Medicine at Ohio State University Medical Center, one of the coordinators of the FAPESP Week Program, offered practical examples of the scope of research activities, such as how international collaboration in science is essential for arriving at practical and effective conclusions in the face of the ever-increasing amount of information about infectious diseases.
FAPESP Week received registrations from 131 individuals who will take part in its work, in addition to the 58 conference participants and organizers. On Monday evening, the exhibit “Brazilian Nature – Mystery and Destiny” will be open, with prints made during the expedition led by Carl Friedrich von Martius between 1817 and 1820.
The exhibit at the Wilson Center will remain open to the public through November 30, and in 2012, it will travel to several other US cities on a program developed by the Brazil Institute of the Wilson Center together with various American universities, which will serve as its hosts

<p><b>Agência FAPESP</b> – The international symposium FAPESP Week opened on October 24, 2011 in the main auditorium of the Woodrow Wilson Center, with attendance by Mauro Vieira, Brazilian Ambassador to Washington, Michael Van Dusen, Vice-President of the Wilson Center, Cora Marrett, Deputy Director of the National Science Foundation, and Professor Daniel Janies of the Medical School of the Ohio State University, along with FAPESP President, Celso Lafer.</p>
<p>Through October 26th, Brazilian scientists financed by FAPESP along with their US colleagues will review the recent Brazilian production from 11 fields of knowledge and discuss the challenges ahead. The event is part of FAPESP’s 50th anniversary celebrations.</p>
<p>In his opening speech, Van Dusen mentioned that one of the first studies into the history of Brazilian science was done at the Wilson Center 33 years ago by Simon Schwartzman, in his work entitled, “A Space for Science – The Development of the Scientific Community in Brazil” while a scholar at the Center.</p>
<p>The Wilson Center is a “living memorial” in tribute to the twenty-eighth US president (1913 to 1921), where intellectuals from all over the world research and debate issues of public policy and knowledge in a variety of fields. The Brazil Institute was established at the Wilson Center in 2006. Under the direction of Journalist Paulo Sotero, it is dedicated specifically to subjects related to Brazil.</p>
<p>Van Dusen, who represented Wilson Center President Jane Harman (currently in Tunisia as member of the international commission observing that country’s elections), emphasized in his speech, the dual status of FAPESP President Celso Lafer as “thinker and doer,” much like Woodrow Wilson himself, the only US president to receive the title of Doctor (awarded by the Johns Hopkins University in History and Political Science).</p>
<p>In his speech, Brazilian Ambassador Mauro Vieira underscored the increasing level of cooperation between the US and Brazil in education and science, stating that FAPESP’s record of success serves as a further incentive for investment in research in Brazil.</p>
<p>Celso Lafer briefly described FAPESP and how it works, emphasizing that one of its current priorities is the internationalization of its activities, demonstrated by holding this very symposium: “We are aware that knowledge is international both in scope and in action in this globalized world, and that it can only be fully developed by expanding the contacts among scientists of the various nations.”</p>
<p>Cora Marrett, Deputy Director of the National Science Foundation, continued along this line of thought in stating, “science knows no national borders,” highlighting existing cooperation programs between the NSF and FAPESP (particularly in the areas of chemistry and biodiversity) and expressing her desire for increased cooperation.</p>
<p>Finally, Daniel Janies, from the College of Medicine at Ohio State University Medical Center, one of the coordinators of the FAPESP Week Program, offered practical examples of the scope of research activities, such as how international collaboration in science is essential for arriving at practical and effective conclusions in the face of the ever-increasing amount of information about infectious diseases.</p>
<p>FAPESP Week received registrations from 131 individuals who will take part in its work, in addition to the 58 conference participants and organizers. On Monday evening, the exhibit “Brazilian Nature – Mystery and Destiny” will be open, with prints made during the expedition led by Carl Friedrich von Martius between 1817 and 1820.</p>
<p>The exhibit at the Wilson Center will remain open to the public through November 30, and in 2012, it will travel to several other US cities on a program developed by the Brazil Institute of the Wilson Center together with various American universities, which will serve as its hosts <br />
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