Renata Giraldi and Gilberto Costa Reporters Agência Brasil [additional note by translator]
Brasília – On her second and last day in the United States, president Dilma Rousseff will visit the city of Boston where she will speak at both Harvard (founded 1636) and MIT (founded 1865). Both institutions, among the best universities in the world, are headed by women today (Drew Gilpin Faust at Harvard is that institution’s 28th president (first woman); she specializes in American Civil War and South history. Susan Hockfield, Ph.D. in neuroscience, is the 16th president of MIT, also its first woman president). Dilma will make a speech at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard and meet with Brazilian students there. She will also sign agreements with both Harvard and MIT that will make them part of Brazil’s new and ambitious scholarship program, Science Without Borders (“Ciência sem Fronteiras”) that aims to send 100,000 Brazilian scholars abroad for study and research between now and 2014.
[At the moment, there are some 120,000 Chinese students studying in the United States and over 100,000 students from India. Not to mention around 70,000 South Koreans. The total number of Brazilian students in the US is 9,000]
Dilma will call for a frank and open exchange of experience between Brazilian researchers and their American counterparts and an increase in cooperation in the area of science with the US where around a fifth (20,000) of the Science Without Borders program scholars will be sent for studies and research in American universities and corporations.
In Boston, Dilma will have lunch with the governor, Deval Patrick. She also will participate in a roundtable discussion with members of the academic and scientific community at the MIT and visit the innovation laboratory there.
Dilma will leave Boston tonight at around 11:00 pm and fly back to Brazil where she will arrive tomorrow morning.
Allen Bennett – translator/editor The News in English
Link - Dilma dedica último dia nos Estados Unidos ao programa Ciência sem Fronteiras
