APS Supports Formation of ICSU Human Rights Monitoring Committee The APS Executive Board voted to support a May 21 letter from the AAAS to the International Council of Scientific Unions requesting the formation of a human rights commission within that organization.
NSF's GOALI Program Promotes Industrial/Academic Partnerships The NSF's Grant Opportunities for Academic Liaison with Industry targets high risk and high gain research with focus on fundamental topics that would not have been undertaken by industry.
Hansch to Receive Schawlow Prize at DLS Meeting Theodore Hansch, executive director of the Max Planck Institute for Quantum optics in Garching, Germany, will be awarded the 1996 Schawlow Prize in October.
Book Review APS Associate Executive Officer Barrett Ripin reviews Peter S. Fiske's "To Boldly Go: A Practical Career Guide for Scientists."
In Brief The APS Division of Laser Science has selected five new speakers and topics for its Distinguished Traveling Lecturer Program; President Clinton selected three physicists among the eight scientists and engineers nominated to serve on the prestigious National Science Board; and Aephraim M. Steinberg of the University of Toronto is the 1996 recipient of the Doctoral Thesis Award for Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics.
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