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NSF Director Sethuraman Panchanathan spent the week reinforcing the agency’s mission to inspire and harness talent everywhere to catalyze the progress of innovation.

On Monday, Jan. 13, Panchanathan welcomed the Government of Canada’s Chief Science Advisor Mona Nemer to agency headquarters, where they explored opportunities to sync global talent to advance cutting-edge research and underscored the importance of supporting societally relevant and use-inspired research to promote global prosperity. NSF has supported U.S. researchers working with Canadian counterparts in areas such as artificial intelligence, quantum information science, the bioeconomy and energy and resilience.

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On January 13, 2025, NSF Director Sethuraman Panchanathan met with Dr. Mona Nemer, Chief Science Advisor of Canada at NSF Headquarters.

On Tuesday, Jan. 14, the director met with Rep. Brian Babin (R-TX-36), Chairman of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, where he expressed his excitement for future collaborative efforts between NSF, the committee and the 119th Congress to ensure the U.S. remains at the vanguard of discovery and innovation. Later that day, he met with Rep. Jay Obernolte (R-CA-23), who chaired the House Bipartisan Task Force on Artificial Intelligence and thanked Obernolte for his task force leadership and expressed his great appreciation for the task force’s recognition of NSF’s longstanding AI investments and the important

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