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Frontiers of Engineering: Reports on Leading-Edge Engineering from the 2008 Symposium

Authors:
National Academy of Engineering

Publisher’s Description:
Every year at the U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, 100 of this country’s best and brightest engineers, ages 30 to 45, have an opportunity to learn from their peers about pioneering work being done in many areas of engineering. The symposium gives early career engineers working in academia, industry, and government in many different engineering disciplines an opportunity to make contacts with and learn from individuals they would not meet in the usual round of professional meetings. This networking may lead to collaborative work and facilitate the transfer of new techniques and approaches. It is hoped that the exchange of information on current developments in many fields of engineering will lead to insights that may be applicable in specific disciplines and thereby build U.S. innovative capacity. Different topics are covered each year, and, with a few exceptions, different individuals participate.

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Catalysis for Energy: Fundamental Science and Long-Term Impacts of the U.S. Department of Energy Basic Energy Science Catalysis Science Program

Authors:
Committee on the Review of the Basic Energy Sciences, Catalysis Science Program, National Research Council

Publisher’s Description:
This book presents an in-depth analysis of the investment in catalysis basic research by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Basic Energy Sciences (BES) Catalysis Science Program. Catalysis is essential to our ability to control chemical reactions, including those involved in energy transformations. Catalysis is therefore integral to current and future energy solutions, such as the environmentally benign use of hydrocarbons and new energy sources (such as biomass and solar energy) and new efficient energy systems (such as fuel cells).

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On Being a Scientist: Third Edition

Authors:
Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy, National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and Institute of Medicine

Publisher’s Description:
The scientific research enterprise is built on a foundation of trust. Scientists trust that the results reported by others are valid. Society trusts that the results of research reflect an honest attempt by scientists to describe the world accurately and without bias. But this trust will endure only if the scientific community devotes itself to exemplifying and transmitting the values associated with ethical scientific conduct.

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Investing in Early-Career Scientists and High-Risk, High-Reward Research

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences is pleased to release ARISE: Advancing Research in Science and Engineering, a white paper from the Academy’s Initiative for Science, Engineering, and Technology.

The ARISE report addresses two issues central to the vitality of America’s research enterprise: 1) the support of early-career investigators; and 2) the encouragement of high-risk, high-reward research. Such support and encouragement will foster a new generation of scientists and stimulate the daring investigations that will generate competitive advantage in a global economy.

Publication Year: 2008
Size: 69 Pages, 8.5 x 11
ISBN: 0-87724-071-X

“The National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) released a report describing a strategy to promote preservation and access to digital scientific data. The report, Harnessing the Power of Digital Data for Science and Society, was produced by the NSTC’s Committee on Science under the auspices of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) in the Executive Office of the President.

The open and timely publication of digital scientific data called for in the report will advance President Obama’s plan to democratize data by publishing government information online in forms that the public can readily find and use. OSTP, which is implementing the President’s agenda on transparency and open government, in collaboration with the CIO Council, is working to create a central, online repository — data.gov — where the public can download such information in open, structured formats. The report provides a strategy to ensure that digital scientific data produced by and for the Federal government and made available via data.gov and agency websites can be reliably preserved for maximum access in catalyzing progress in science and society.

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Access all the chemical hazard information you need for your workplace and the environment in one convenient location.

Databases in the collection include: CHEMINFO, CESARS, CHRIS, DSL/NDSL (Domestic Substance List, HSDB (Hazardous Substances Data Bank), New Jersey Hazardous Substance Fact Sheets, NIOSH Pocket Guide, Transport TDG, Transport 49CFR.

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The theme for the just-concluded Salt Lake City national meeting was Nanoscience: Challenges for the Future. Many of the world’s foremost nano experts gave talks, and permitted the American Chemical Society to record and post these presentations on the ACS website.

In all, over 30 nano presentations (audio and slides) can be found by visiting the ACS website (click on ‘Nanoscience’ box in right margin).

Among others, you’ll find the following presentations:

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Circulation records are confidential. However when one patron has an item checked out, the needs of another patron can often be met by a brief check of a quotation, citation, etc. in that item. In this case, the borrower’s name, telephone number and/or electronic mail address will be disclosed to any member of the Stanford University community and/or to University of California faculty, academic staff, or graduate student members of the Research Libraries Cooperative Program of the Reciprocal Services Program, unless the borrower has on file, with the Privileges Offices, a signed request for non-disclosure.
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