AIDS: Academies demand urgent public education
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Education at the National Academies.
In the previous issue of CBE (Vol. 1, Winter 2002), Bruce Alberts, president of the National Academy of Sciences, provided readers with an overview of some of our many initiatives in education (pp. 109–110). Much of that article focused on the work within the Center for Education of the National Research Council (NRC).1 That issue also contains an article by ASCB member William Wood (pp. 123–12...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nature
سال: 1986
ISSN: 0028-0836,1476-4687
DOI: 10.1038/324003a0