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 R. D. Shelton, Editor:  rds@itri2.org
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In This Issue of ITRInews
Research Feasts: FY2001 Budgets for U.S. Research Agencies
S&T Policy Seminar on the Implications of Presidential Election
WTEC Workshop on Tissue Engineering
NSF Workshop on Quantitative Systems Biology

ITRI Alumni News
Marvin Cassman
Mark Kryder

Featured Organizations in International S&T:
Foreign Governments Resource Clearinghouse
Engineering Village 2
U.S. Grey Literature in Black and White (NTIS and DTIC)

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Research Feasts: FY2001 Budgets for the U.S. Research Agencies I learned when I worked on the Hill in 1995 was that among all the bluster of politics, the one thing that Congress had to do was pass the 13 appropriations bills to keep the Government running.  The 106th Congress did not even manage to do that.  It left town just before the elections with five of the bills still in limbo -- a month after Fiscal 2001 started on October 1.  AAAS does a great job of monitoring the progress of the bills for research agencies through the maze.  The good news is that most agencies have already received generous increases in spending.  For example, NSF is up by 14%, the greatest increase ever  Its Engineering Directorate is up by 8.6%, the least of the seven research and education directorates.  NASA's research budget is up by 5.6%, that of DOE is up by 12.5%, and that of basic research at DOD is up by 13%. The big question mark is at the National Institutes of Health, whose budget always dwarfs that of most of the physical science agencies.   http://www.aaas.org/spp/dspp/rd/approp.htm

Seminar on Election 2000:  Implications for S&T  Second of the S&T Policy Seminars sponsored by the Washington Science Policy Alliance.  It will take place in the AAAS Auditorium, 1200 New York Ave., NW, Washington, DC, from 8:30 to 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday, November 15, 2000.  A continental breakfast will be served at 7:30 a.m.  The speakers will be Norm Ornstein and Skip Stiles.  Ornstein is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, a contributor to Roll Call, and a frequent guest on the talk show circuit.  Stiles is former legislative director for the Democratic staff of the House Science Committee and is executive director of the Genetic Resources Communications System.  Perhaps Skip or Norm will tell us who actually will be the next President.  http://www.aaas.org/spp/dspp/rd/gwu.htm

WTEC Workshop on Tissue Engineering Research was held November 2-3, 2000 at NIST in Gaithersburg, MD.  160 participants heard the results of a worldwide study headed by Dr. Larry McIntire of Rice University.  This field was pioneered by NSF's Engineering Directorate in the late 1980s and has grown to an active area of research in the U.S., Japan, and Western Europe.  The first product is human skin for treatment of burn victims, and many more are in the pipeline.  The U.S. continues to lead in most subdisciplines, but equivalent R&D projects were found abroad in many fields. A workshop proceedings report was distributed at the meeting, and should be posted by the end of November at http://itri.loyola.edu.

NSF Workshop on QSB  The first workshop on Quantitative Systems Biology was held at NSF on September 13-14 at NSF.  The purpose was to gather information for a possible program announcement to fund research in this emerging field.  As genome databases are completed, there is a need for mathematical and algorithmic approaches to put this data to practical use.  The report is being prepared by ITRI, Inc. and should be posted by December 15.  http://itri2.org/
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ITRI ALUMNI NEWS

ITRI recruits distinguished scientists for its panels, and as time goes on, many move to leading positions.  Some more examples:
 
Marvin Cassman, Director of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health. NIGMS supports basic biomedical research that is not targeted to specific diseases, but that increases understanding of life processes and lays the foundation for advances in disease diagnosis, treatment, and prevention.  As NIGMS director, Dr. Cassman oversees a budget exceeding $1 billion per year that funds basic research grants in cell biology, biophysics, genetics, developmental biology, pharmacology, physiology, and biological chemistry.

In addition to his biomedical research, Dr. Cassman has also worked at OSTP as a senior policy analyst, and as a legislative fellow on the staff of the House Subcommittee on Science, Research, and Technology.  He is also a member of the NSF Advisory Committee for Biological Sciences.  Dr. Cassman served on our 1992 panel on Bioprocess Engineering in Japan. http://www.nigms.nih.gov/news/releases/dirrel.html

Mark Kryder, Senior Vice President and Director of Seagate Research at Seagate Technology, Inc. Dr. Mark Kryder joined Seagate in August 1998 from Carnegie Mellon University where he was the Stephen J. Jatras University professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and director of the Data Storage Systems Center.

Seagate Technology, Inc. is the world's largest manufacturer of disc drives, magnetic discs and read-write heads, an innovator in tape drives, and a leading developer of Enterprise Information Management software.  Dr. Kryder is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.  He was co-chair of our 1999 study, The Future of Data Storage Technologies. http://www.seagate.com/cda/newsinfo/newsroom/releases/article/0,1247,388,00.html
 
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FEATURED ORGANIZATIONS THIS MONTH

Foreign Government Resources Clearinghouse from the University of Michigan
http://www.lib.umich.edu/libhome/Documents.center/foreign.html

Engineering Village 2  Engineering Information, Inc. has upgraded their site, which provides over 5 million engineering abstracts from Compendix and several other major databases.  A fee is charged, but a 5-day free trial is offered.  http://www.ei.org/engineeringvillage2/trial.html

National Technical Information Service  NTIS publishes reports sponsored by U.S. Government civilian agencies; it is the archival publisher of about 50 ITRI final reports.  NTIS also exchanges S&T literature with similar organizations abroad, and thus is a key source for foreign S&T information in the U.S. http://www.ntis.gov

Defense Technical Information Service  DTIC is the military version of NTIS.  Users need to register.  They have to be employees of U.S. Government agencies or their contractors -- including universities that have have DOD contracts.  http://www.dtic.mil

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