Rowland Institute Library Blog

With the slogan, “Americans for less secrecy, more democracy,” a number
of organizations and individuals, among them the American Library
Association, launched OpenTheGovernment.org.  The first challenge:
help identify the ten most sought pieces of government
information.  “The public’s right to know promotes equal and
equitable access to
government, encourages integrity in official conduct, and prevents
undisclosed and undue influence from special interests.
 OpenTheGovernment.org seeks to advance the public’s right to know and
to reduce secrecy in government.” (Source; beSpacific)

Howard Berg (of Rowland’s Bacterial Motor Works and Harvard’s MCB) and
Victor Sourjik have studied bacterial signalling networks using
fluorescence resonance energy transfer.  Recent papers, including
their latest in Nature (Harvard affiliates enter here) demonstrate the interactions and cooperativity of the proteins that make up these networks. 

Robin Good interviews Marcus Zillman.

The Iop Nanotechnology journal’s April 2004 issue features papers from
a conference held last September with the theme ‘Trends in
Nanotechology.”  Topics include quantum dots, semiconductor
physics, microelectronics, force microscopy and others. 

includes over 7000 sources.  (Thanks to beSpacific)

A conference scheduled for March 31 – April 2, National Nanotechnology
Initiative: From Vision to Commercialization, will be held in
Washington, DC, featuring a number of legislators and federal agency
representatives who have participated in the program.  An extensive list of speakers draws from universities and corporations. (Source: NSF Custom News)

351 physicists are represented in this picture gallery collected from multiple sources. (thanks to the NSDL Scout Report for Physical Sciences)

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. 

Several library association, along with  the National Security
Archive and public interest groups, filed an amicus brief in the
Supreme Court case waged by Vice President Cheney to keep his Energy
Task Force documents confidential.  The amici state they “share
the copnviction that broad access to government records protects values
essential to representative democracy.” (Source: beSpacific, which has a full page devoted to reporting on the case.)