Dr. Melody Brown Burkins, a member of the IEDS Internal Governance Committee, is co-organizer of an upcoming panel for the AAAS 2011 Meeting in Washington, DC entitled “The Practice of Science Diplomacy”. Burkins is Vice Chair of the National Academies’ U.S. National Committee for the International Union of Geological Sciences (USNC/IUGS), a group tasked with …