Under the joint direction of Preetha Ram, associate dean for science at Emory College, and Geshe Lobsang Negi, director of the Emory- Tibet Partnership, ETSI involves more than two dozen Emory faculty from various scientific disciplines and seven full-time translators— three at Emory and four at the
Library of Tibetan Works and Archives in Dharamsala, India. The initiative already has led to six completed science textbooks in Tibetan and English, with two more textbooks in various stages of completion. In addition, three bilingual science primers have been completed and, after six years, a total of ten textbooks and fifteen primers will have been published and distributed. To complement the main course books, supplementary materials such as the book Brain Facts by the Society of Neuroscience have been translated into Tibetan. Further supplementary materials also will be translated in the future to create a rich body of Tibetan-language science materials for the curriculum.