Issues & Events
R&D Budget
Brings Modest Increases to Most Civilian R&D;
NSF Takes a Hit
As in the past three US budgets, defense and
homeland security received most of the federal
R&D dollars. With the federal deficit
at $413 billion and climbing, most budget
experts expect science funding to get worse
before it gets better.
Texas
A&M Reaches for Stars
As part of a campus-wide explosion in faculty
numbers, the physics department at Texas A&M
University in College Station aims to launch
a topnotch astronomy program.
Hard
Push for Soft-Matter Research at NYU
The Creation of an interdisciplinary and international
Center for Soft Matter Research makes physics
the first field to get a boost from New York
University's $2.5 billion expansion plans.
Activities
Large and Small Set for International Year
of Physics
The World Year of Physics kicks off this month
with a conference at the Paris headquarters
of the United Nations Educational, Scientific
and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
Barring
ITER Site Consensus, Europe Will Forge Ahead
Agreement on a site for ITER remains elusive,
but in late November, the European Union's
council of ministers gave its seal of approval
to building the international fusion energy
test reactor in Cadarache, France.
Oddone
Named to Head Fermilab
Physicist Pier Oddone has been named as the
next director of Fermilab and will take the
post on 1 July 2005.
Cold
Fusion Gets Chilly Encore
Claims of cold fusion are no more convincing
today than they were 15 years ago.
News
Notes
Interdisciplinary prize; The Industrial Physicist
folds
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