<em>Science</em> reports that beginning in July 2006, Florida researchers won't be able to travel to Cuba to carry out any studi

Science 9 June 2006:
Vol. 312. no. 5779, p. 1450
DOI: 10.1126/science.312.5779.1450

News of the Week
SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION:
Florida Law Bans Academics From Doing Research in Cuba
Yudhijit Bhattacharjee

Excerpts of article here:

Beginning next month, Florida researchers won’t be able to travel to Cuba to carry out any studies. Although the United States allows such interactions, the state has banned faculty members at Florida’s public universities from having any contact with the island nation under a law enacted last week. “This law shuts down the entire Cuban research agenda,” says Dami