Outlined are current activities within the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Included are reports on the needs of Native Americans for science education, annual meetings scheduled, and results of the review of National Science Foundation Chautauqua-Type Short Courses for small colleges. (SL)

Lists the 66 symposia constituting the second half of a forthcoming meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), divided into the following categories: medicine and health, anthropology, technological implications, behavioral science, education, economic and social science, science and public policy, and history and…

Presented is an outline of the theme, public lectures, symposia, and sessions of the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science to be held in Denver, Colorado, February 20-25, 1977. (SL)

Describes the procedures for election to memberships in the National Academy of Sciences. Included are the names of the 60 new members elected to the academy this year. (SL)

Describes current attempts to implement policy change within the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). (SL)

Describes the cause and effect of the reduction in scale and altering in form of federal support of graduate and post graduate training in the sciences. Emphasis is on the research training programs of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). (Author/EB)

Describes briefly the National Council for Science and Technology (CONACYT) of Mexico, and outlines Mexico's Program for Science and Technology which includes 2,489 projects in basic and applied sciences at a cost of $260 million from 1978 to 1982. (HM)