The Georgia Tech Sam Nunn Security Program Fellows--a MacArthur Foundation funded effort to expose Georgia Tech's brightest PhD engineering and science students to policymaking--spent the week of March 17th 2013 in Washington DC.

They visited the National Academy ofScience, Congressional staffers, the Congressional Budget Office, the House Science and Technology Committee and even met with a Physicist turned Congressman (Rep. Holt). They met with recent PhD graduates who are now working in the Pentagon, DOE, and Department of State as AAAS Fellows. They also met with Senior NSF Program Officer Paul Werbos who spent three hours giving feedback on possible directions the Fellows could take their research. Finally, they also met with Patricia Falcone
from the White House Office of Science Technology Policy. The Fellows were very interested in the international dimensions of NASA.

The Sam Nunn Security Program is one of the active programs in The Center for International Strategy, Technology, and Policy (CISTP), the interdisciplinary policy research arm of The Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at Georgia Tech.

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