Improving U.S.-Russian Relations through
Cooperation in Higher Education and Research
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Washington, DC.

Panel I: Cooperation in the Humanities and Social Sciences

Chair: Blair A. Ruble, Director, Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson Center

Joseph Conaty, Director of the Academic Improvement and Teacher Quality Programs, U.S. Department of Education

Robert Huber, President, National Council for Eurasian and East European Research Mark Johnson, Associate Professor, Department of History, Colorado College

Andrey Kortunov, President, ISE Center, Moscow

Joyce Warner, Director of Education Programs, International Research and Exchanges Board

Vlad Zubok, Associate Professor, Department of History, Temple University

Panel II: Cooperation in the Natural and Physical Sciences

Chair: Harley Balzer, Associate Professor of Government and International Affairs, Georgetown University

Susan Baker, Research Leader, Global Ring Network for Advanced Application Development

Cathleen Campbell, President and CEO, U.S. Civilian Research and Defense Foundation

Loren Graham, Professor of the History of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Glenn Schweitzer, Director, Office of Eastern Europe and Eurasia, National Research Council

Gerson Sher, President, United States Industry Coalition

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