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UCS's work with international scientists who are interested in arms control and security issues has made clear the importance of providing opportunities for such scientists to spend time with established research groups. This allows them to increase their understanding of these issues and gain experience working on them. They can then return to their home countries better prepared to work on arms control issues. The Summer Symposiums in particular have helped UCS to identify those scientists who would most benefit from such opportunities.

The Program

To help meet this need, UCS established its Visiting Scientist Fellowship Program in 1994 with a grant from the MacArthur Foundation. Under this program, scientists spend up to a year at UCS working on arms control issues with the Global Security staff. The fellowship provides the visiting scientists a number of opportunities:

• to learn more about arms control issues generally
  
• to do research on a specific issue of mutual interest
  
• to establish contacts with a range of scholars, activists, and others in the United States
  
• to access a wealth of information that is unavailable in their home country
  
• to learn how groups like UCS work on these issues
  
  

The fellowship provides a travel budget to allow the fellows to attend meetings or visit specific people or sites that are useful for their work. A book budget allows them to purchase books and journals that will be useful both in their research in the United States and as resources when they return home.

UCS also benefits from the presence of the fellows. They provide a valuable perspective on many of the arms control problems on which UCS is working. And they help UCS and often a broader US community learn in greater depth about the countries and regions the fellows come from.

The Fellows

The scientists UCS has hosted under the fellowship program include:

• Liu Yong (China): September 1994 to August 1995
  
  
• Tushar Ravuri (India): January to September 1996
  
  
• Zia Mian (Pakistan): October 1996 to September 1997
  
  
• Li Feizhi (China): January to December 1999
  
  
• Zhu Qiangguo (China): May to August 2000
  
  
• A.H. Toor (Pakistan): December 2001 to August 2002
  
  
• Shen Dingli (China): September 2002; February 2003
  
  
• Shen Liangyin (China): March to April 2003