Google Fellowship

Google is sponsoring students interested in technology policy to spend the summer at think tanks and public interest groups through a program called the Google Policy Fellowship.  Applications are being accepted now through December 12. For more information click here.

Internships with Student Pugwash USA!

"The Climate for Change" - Al Gore (NY Times)
THE inspiring and transformative choice by the American people to elect Barack Obama as our 44th president lays the foundation for another fateful choice that he — and we — must make this January to begin an emergency rescue of human civilization from the imminent and rapidly growing threat posed by the climate crisis. Read on here.

The Strangest Dream & Joseph Rotblat

The Strangest Dream tells the story of Joseph Rotblat, the history of nuclear weapons and the efforts of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs – which he co-founded – to halt nuclear proliferation.

Nuclear physicist Joseph Rotblat was branded a traitor and spy after walking away from the Manhattan Project, builders of the first atomic bomb. But, with Bertrand Russell, he went on to help create the modern peace movement, and eventually to win the Nobel Peace Prize. Read more about the movie and watch the trailer here.

Job Listings

The Arms Control Association invites applications for a full-time, Research Associate dealing with nuclear weapons policy and nonproliferation issues. For a more detailed position description, click here.

CSTSP Internship Program - AAAS - Center for Science Technology and Security Policy Application Deadline: December 1, 2008. For more information click here.

Americans for Informed Democracy (AID) Internships offers a hands-on introduction to the fields of global education, global development, global health, environmental sustainability, peace and security, non-profit management and arts and activism.  This internship program offers students an unparalleled introduction to the diverse professional opportunities within international NGOs.  Interns help lead social action campaigns, grassroots organizing, media outreach, grant-writing, fundraising, civic education, and long-term strategy development. Read more about the program here.

Science & Technology Events

National Council for Science and the Environment's 9th National Conference of Science, Policy and the Environment: Biodiversity in a Rapidly Changing World

December 8-10, 2008 at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington, DC.  

Award Winning Author- Thomas Friedman, New York Times columnist and Pulitzer Prize winning author, will provide the keynote

To register and for more information click here.

S&T Tidbits

Nuclear Free World Appeal - Sign the Petition!