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The Brazil n Chemistry Program An International Experiment in Science Education Board on Science and Technology for International Development Commission on International Relations National Research Council NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES Washington, D.C. 1979 NAS-NAE NQV141979 LIBRARY

140 This report has been prepared by an ad hoc advisory panel C • I of the Board on Science and Technology for International Development, Commission on International Relations, Na- tional Research Council, as an assessment of a project supported by United States and Brazilian donors listed on page 5. Funds for the assessment were provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation; Atlantic Richfield Foundation-, Office of Science and Technology, Bureau for Developnent Support, Agency for International Development; and the " Brazilian National Research Council (CNPq). NOTICE The project that is the subject of this report was . approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the Council of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine. The members of the Committee responsible for the report were chosen for their special competences and with regard for appro- priate balance. This report has been reviewed by a group other than the authors according to procedures approved by a Report Review Committee consisting of members of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine. ii

PREFACE Over a span of seven years, two scientific organi- zations — one in Brazil and one in the United States — joined forces to conduct an experiment in postgraduate research and teaching in chemistry. The experiment in- volved substantial costs, scores of scientists and students, and a unique mechanism for international colla- boration in science education. The results of the experiment need to be assessed and the lessons learned need to be noted. Besides their own needs for analysis of the program, the institutions that were involved frequently receive inquiries from other countries about the usefulness of the model on which the experiment was based, and its possible applicability elsewhere. In December l978, therefore, a small assessment team from the United States visited Brazil to discuss the ex- periment with colleagues there, two years after the official close of the program. The members of the U.S. team were: Dr. Aron Kuppermann, California Institute of Technology; Dr. Henry Taube, Stanford University; Dr. Ernest Wenkert, Rice University; and Dr. Victor Rabino- witch and Mr. John Hurley, National Academy of Sciences. This report is the result of that visit, plus interviews and correspondence with many other participants in the program. Earlier detailed reports on the Brazil Chemistry Pro- gram are available, especially the final report of the two-country supervisory panel. That report provides full details on the various projects in the program and on the Brazilian and U.S. participants. The following pages, however, will not only describe and highlight the pro- gram for those unfamiliar with it, but will also attempt to view it in a perspective that becomes possible only with the passage of time. iii

Special acknowledgement should be made of the help and cooperation of the CNPq and the Brazilian participants in the program, in making the assessment possible. The conclusions expressed in this report, however, are those of the U.S. assessment team. IV

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