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Philanthropy Horizons
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Issue 47: December 2004
COMPUTER SCIENCE AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS
- Action Needed to Preserve US Lead in Supercomputing
ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES
-Report Examines Future of US Water Supply
-Study of Marine Mammal Behavior for Conservation Purposes
NEW AT THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES
-New Resource: Foundation Gateway
POLICY AND RESEARCH ISSUES
- Overhaul of "Naturalization Tests" Needs More Work
-Report Offers Recommendations to Spur Interdisciplinary Research
EVENTS AND OPEN MEETINGS
-Committee Meeting: A Framework for Understanding Electronic Voting
-Committee Meeting: Residence Rules in the Decennial Census
Issue 46: November 2004
EDUCATION
- National Academies Name Biology Teaching Fellows and Mentors
ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES
-Report Examines Mississippi-Illinois Waterway Study
-Weather Service Should Improve Use of 'Next Generation Radars'
-Report Calls for Economic Valuation in Environmental Policymaking
POLICY AND RESEARCH ISSUES
-New Booklet Explores Animal Use in Biomedical Research
UPCOMING EVENTS AND OPEN MEETINGS
-New Resource: Foundation Gateway
-Meeting: Measures of Health Benefits for Environmental, Health, and Safety Regulation
-Meeting: Adaption to Mental Health and Addictive Disorders
-Meeting: International Graduate Students and Postdocs
Issue 45: October 2004
BEHAVIORAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
-Meeting: Committee on Adolescent Health and Development
ENGINEERING
-Annual Frontiers of Engineering Symposium
HEALTH AND MEDICINE
-National Effort Needed to Combat Childhood Obesity
-Meeting: Youth Population and Military Recruitment: Physical and Medical Standards
NATIONAL SECURITY
-Workshops Focus on News Response to Terrorism
INTERNATIONAL
-Meeting: Global Challenges and Directions for Agricultural Biotechnology
POLICY AND RESEARCH ISSUES
-Unrestricted Public Access to Pathogen Genome Data Should Continue
-Workshop: Guidelines for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research
OTHER UPCOMING EVENTS AND OPEN MEETINGS
-Film/Discussion: Science in "The Others"
Issue 44: September 2004
ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES
-Report Advises Developing Salmon Research, Restoration Plan in Alaska
NATIONAL SECURITY
-Army, Homeland Security Should Collaborate
POLICY AND RESEARCH ISSUES
-Gov't Should Assess Foods Based on Composition, Not Creation
NEW AT THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES
-Koshland Museuem Hosts Murder Mystery
-New Information Source on Earth and Life Science
UPCOMING EVENTS AND OPEN MEETINGS
-Establishing a National Cord Blood Stem Cell Bank Program
-Review of the WIC Food Package
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