Rowland Institute Library Blog

Roy Glauber of Harvard and John L. Hall of JILA and Theodor Hansch of
Max-Planck (the latter visited Rowland once upon a time)  are the
2005 recipients. 

Update (10/5/05): The Boston Globe has an article about Roy Glauber. 

A Science NextWave article illustrates instances of unexpected funding
sources.  Examples include the army funding breast cancer
research.   Suggestions on how to tap such sources are
listed. 

The Scientist outlines the grant process in 12 steps.

The National Institutes of Health put forward their nanomedicine program and asked the scientific community for input. 

AAAS says research programs are at risk as federal government tries to
get deficits under control.  (Source: Science in the News)

People in Washington are not “out to get” scientists, the House Science
committee chair assures a group at Brookhaven, telling them strategies
for lobbying for more federal monies for the physical sciences. 

A series of Chronicle articles explore how NIH funding has doubled in recent years and at the same time how some universities have received less; others question what NIH has gotten for the money. A colloquy on the topic will be held Thursday on the Chronicle’s web site.

(access restricted to subscribers). An opinion piece in the Chronicle of Higher Education states that

(Accessible to Harvard affiliates only). Science magazine tells of preliminary reports suggesting only small increases in budgets for NIH and NSF next year.