The International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) serves to build global interaction among research communities and promote advances in crystallography at the international level. The U.S. National Committee for Crystallography (USNC/Cr) furthers the interests of the U.S. crystallography community in IUCr and promotes the intellectual vigor and diversity of the crystallographic community. It supports activities and issues in: Interdisciplinary Research, Research Resources and Facilities, Education and Travel Support, Crystallographic Databases, and Publication Standards and Ethics. Download the 2007 USNC/IUCr Brochure			The XXI Congress and General Assembly of the International Union of Crystallography will be held in Osaka, Japan from 23-31 August, 2008.
			Congratulations
			Professor D. Sayre of the Department of Physics at the State University of New York, Stony Brook, has been awarded the eighth Ewald Prize by the IUCr. Dr. Sayre received the prize for “the unique breadth of his contributions to crystallography, which range from seminal contributions to the solving of the phase problem to the complex physics of imaging generic objects by X-ray diffraction and microscopy, and for never losing touch with the physical reality of the processes involved.” The Prize will be presented to Dr. Sayre during the opening ceremony of the 2008 Congress.
			Newsletter
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Travel Fellowship Program
The USNC/IUCr, in cooperation with the American Crystallographic Association offers partial travel support fellowships to participate in the international IUCr Congresses. The awards are designed to cover the approximate costs of airfare and registration.
Congratulations to the 2008 Fellowship Recipients			Visa Information
Wen Bian James Ciston Anna Gardberg Ronny Hughes Medora Huseby Pavol Juhas	Karah Knope Jeffrey Lee Alexander Smith Shiho Tanaka Vladimir Zhurov		The International Visitors Office, a BISO program, provides information on the visa process for scientists coming to the United States for meetings or exchanges. It is also helpful for those organizing international meetings in the US.
			Sponsors
			Support for the USNC/IUCr is provided by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. MPS-0650065.