Belgian scientist proposed to head EC research directorate

Directorate General for Research

The Final Report of this ‘Study into Options for a Community Strategy on a Satellite System’ discusses the arguments and evidence supporting possible options on satellite system strategy that might be considered by the European Parliament, then presents technical information on current and future satellite system development and concludes by discussing relevant technical issues. The present and...

ITEMS FROM INdIA dIREcTORATE OF WHEAT RESEARcH

A n n u a l W h e a t N e w s l e t t e r V o l. 5 8. Our organic breeding program is highly focused on the development of new, organic cultivars of alternative or underutilized cereals such as einkorn and emmer. A new, organically bred, einkorn cultivar, Mv Menket, was released last year. This is the first semidwarf einkorn cultivar in the market, with elevated yield potential, and excellent r...

EUROPEAN COMMISSION Directorate-General for Research Directorate F — Health Unit F.3 — Infectious Diseases

Proposed Research

I was a graduate student at the Mas-sachusetts Institute of Technology. The rst three years of these studies were supported by an NSF Graduate Student Fellowship. My research there led to a Ph.D. thesis entitled \Noncommutative ruled surfaces." My thesis research describes certain classes of graded rings which arise as homogeneous coordinate rings of noncommutative quantizations of algebraicall...

Research Advocacy: Why Every Scientist Should Participate

In the United States, a generation and more has passed since widespread sustained political involvement by students in the affairs of the nation, such as the movement to oppose the war in Vietnam. Today’s students and post-doctoral fellows have no first-hand memory of broad, organized efforts to convince the government that represents them to shift its priorities significantly. This has present...