Davies begins his 12-month fellowship in
mid-August working in food security and international agriculture at the
U.S. Department of State and U.S. Agency for International Development.
He will return in September 2014 but remain available to the government
for short-term projects for the following five years.
The Jefferson Science Fellowships allow tenured
academic scientists and engineers from institutions of higher learning
in the U.S. to help form and implement national foreign policy. The
program is administered by the National Academies and supported through a
partnership between the U.S. academic community, professional
scientific societies, the State Department and the USAID.
The program is based on the premise that science
and technology make fundamental contributions to security, economic,
health and cultural conditions of modern societies, and are integral to
the development and implementation of foreign policy.
Davies is among 13 individuals selected this
year and is only the second Texas A&M faculty member chosen for the
honor. Nicholas Suntzeff, a distinguished professor of physics and
astronomy, was a 2010-2011 Fellow. Read more here
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