The United States recognizes that science and technology are critical to achieving our highest priorities: national security, economic growth, and job creation. The ingenuity of our research community, in partnership with the government and the private sector, has built an innovation ecosystem whose successes originate with investments in basic research. The history of science is ...
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By U.S. Mission Italy | 28 September, 2017 | Topics: Featured Event | Tags: g7italy, g7science
Good morning, and thank for the opportunity to address the 2017 G7 Science Ministerial. I am France Córdova, Director of the National Science Foundation. I am honored to represent the United States of America today. I would like to extend my deepest gratitude to Minister Fedeli and the Government of Italy for hosting us in ...
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By U.S. Mission Italy | 28 September, 2017 | Topics: Featured Event | Tags: g7italy, g7science
The United States agrees that maintaining and modernizing research infrastructure is critical to getting the best value out of research and development investments. State-of-the-art research infrastructure provides us with unique capabilities, ensuring that the science and technology workforce has the capabilities it needs to conduct world-leading research. As we noted in session 2, innovative partnership ...
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By U.S. Mission Italy | 28 September, 2017 | Topics: Featured Event | Tags: g7italy, g7science
The United States recognizes that investments in fundamental research can lead to emerging technologies, and create ingredients important for innovation ecosystems to thrive. It is a goal to expand the number and diversity of innovation ecosystems, and one way to do this is through a variety and diversity of partnerships. In the United States, government ...
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By U.S. Mission Italy | 28 September, 2017 | Topics: Featured Event | Tags: g7italy, g7science
Thank you, Director Ferrini, and thank you all for joining us for today’s press conference. Today marks an exciting milestone in the growing international scientific effort to unlock the extraordinary mysteries of our Universe. A little more than a year and a half ago, the U.S. National Science Foundation announced that our Laser Gravitational Wave Observatory ...
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By U.S. Mission Italy | 27 September, 2017 | Topics: Featured Event | Tags: g7italy, g7science
France A. Córdova is an astrophysicist and the 14th director of the National Science Foundation (NSF), the only government agency charged with advancing all fields of scientific discovery, technological innovation, and science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education. NSF is a $7.5 billion independent federal agency; its programs and initiatives keep the United States at ...
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By U.S. Mission Italy | 27 September, 2017 | Topics: Featured Event | Tags: g7science
Brian W. Stone is the Chief of Staff to the Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF). He serves as a principal advisor to the Director in policy development, short and long range planning, cross-directorate activities, and provides high-level liaison with the White House and other federal agencies.
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By U.S. Mission Italy | 27 September, 2017 | Topics: Exclude, Featured Event | Tags: g7science
Rebecca Kaiser joined the Office of International Science and Engineering (OISE) in 2015. She came to the National Science Foundation (NSF) from NASA, where she was a special advisor for Innovation and Public-Private Partnerships, reporting to the NASA Administrator and an executive-in-residence at American University. Prior to that, she held several positions with NASA, including ...
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By U.S. Mission Italy | 27 September, 2017 | Topics: Exclude, Featured Event | Tags: g7science
See the latest version of the official G7 calendar, available at: http://www.g7italy.it/en/calendar
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By U.S. Mission Italy | 6 March, 2017 | Topics: Exclude, Featured Event | Tags: g7agriculture, g7environment, g7finance, g7gender, g7health, g7industry, g7interior, g7italy, g7labor, g7science, g7summit, g7transport