克林顿任命三位新科学特使_美国驻华大使馆

阿莫德是科罗拉多大学博尔德分校（University of Colorado at Boulder）全球工程专业莫特森教席教授（Mortenson Endowed Chair）和土木工程学教授。他从美国加州大学伯克利分校（University of California at Berkeley）获得博士学位，研究和教学领域主要集中在岩石力学与工程地质。阿莫德是无国界工程师组织（Engineers Without Borders）的创始会长，也是美国国家工程院经选举产生的院士（U.S. National Academy of Engineering）。

霍克菲尔德近期曾担任麻省理工学院（Massachusetts Institute of Technology）院长，现在仍然在该院神经科学专业任教。她还是哈佛大学肯尼迪政府学院（Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government）的玛丽·居里客座教授。她从乔治城大学医学院（Georgetown University School of Medicine ）获得博士学位，研究重点和专长为脑发育和脑肿瘤。霍克菲尔德曾当选为美国艺术与科学院（American Academy of Arts and Sciences）院士。

谢尔从耶鲁大学（Yale University ）获得生物学博士学位，是圣路易斯市（St. Louis）华盛顿大学（Washington University）生物系的玛丽 - 戴尔·奇尔顿杰出教授（Mary-Dell Chilton Distinguished Professor）。她以其在进化生物学领域的工作而知名，特别是在使用DNA序列了解进化生物学的研究方面。她是美国国家科学院第一位女性副院长，同时也是总统科技顾问委员会成员（President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology）。

国务院在11月8日发布的新闻稿中说，这些科学家将努力深化与国外同行的现有关系，培育新的合作关系，并讨论可能的合作领域，所有这些工作将有助于应对全球性挑战，实现共同目标。科学特使以私人公民的身份旅行，并将他们从旅行和互动中获得的见解向白宫、国务院和美国科学界汇报。科学特使计划表明美国继续致力于将科学、技术和创新作为外交工具。

这三位科学家是自该计划在2009年实施以来的第三批科学特使。以前的科学特使访问了19个国家，包括埃及、摩洛哥、突尼斯、南非、埃塞俄比亚、坦桑尼亚、印度尼西亚、孟加拉国、马来西亚、哈萨克斯坦、乌兹别克斯坦和阿塞拜疆。

Clinton Names Three New U.S. Science Envoys

Washington — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has announced the appointment of three new science envoys: Bernard Amadei, Susan Hockfield and Barbara Schaal.

In remarks at a State Department event November 8 on wildlife trafficking and conservation, Clinton said, “Building scientific partnerships is an important tool in addressing such global challenges.”

Amadei holds the Mortenson Endowed Chair in Global Engineering and is a professor of civil engineering at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Having earned his doctorate from the University of California at Berkeley, his main research and teaching interests have focused on rock mechanics and engineering geology. Amadei is the founding president of Engineers Without Borders and is an elected member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering.

Hockfield served recently as president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she remains on the neuroscience faculty. She also serves as the Marie Curie Visiting Professor at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. She earned her doctorate at the Georgetown University School of Medicine and has focused her research on brain development and a specific form of brain cancer. Hockfield has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Schaal earned her doctorate in biology from Yale University and is the Mary-Dell Chilton Distinguished Professor at Washington University in St. Louis in the Department of Biology. She is recognized for her work in evolutionary biology, particularly for studies that use DNA sequences to understand evolutionary biology. She holds the distinction of being the first woman elected to the vice presidency of the National Academy of Sciences and is a member of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.

The scientists will seek to deepen existing ties, foster new relationships with foreign counterparts and discuss potential areas of collaboration that will help address global challenges and realize shared goals, the State Department said in a November 8 press release. The science envoys travel in their capacity as private citizens and advise the White House, the State Department and the U.S. scientific community about the insights they gain from their travels and interactions. The Science Envoy program demonstrates the United States’ continued commitment to science, technology and innovation as tools of diplomacy.

The three scientists are the third cohort of science envoys since the program’s inception in 2009. Previous envoys have visited 19 countries, including Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, South Africa, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan.

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