AAAS News & Notes

PACIFIC RIM

Asian Countries Look to Upgrade Agricultural Development

The population in the Asia Pacific region, including the Indian subcontinent, makes up over two-thirds of the world's total. Feeding this large and growing population in the future will be a challenge, especially as expanding urban areas, new infrastructure, and industrial development limit the availability of arable land. In addition, the lack of new technologies combined with excessive farming has resulted in low production, soil erosion, and deterioration of the environment.

The Forbidden City in Beijing was just one stop for participants in a AAAS agricultural conference.

The Asia Pacific High-Level Conference on Sustainable Agriculture, hosted by AAAS and the China Association for Science and Technology (CAST) in Beijing on 5-8 October, brought together agricultural experts from the United States and the Pacific Rim region. The participants discussed agricultural development and environmental issues, and looked for ways to upgrade the research and development level of sustainable agriculture within the region.

The conference, which took place in the China Hall of Science and Technology, was attended by 37 people from 13 countries; approximately 150 local students also attended the first day. Participants heard addresses from AAAS President M. R. C. Greenwood and CAST President Zhou Guangzhao, and toured an ecological village in Daxing, outside of Beijing.

The conference concluded with a call for the formation of a Consortium for Asian Pacific Sustainable Agriculture Research and Application (CAPSARA). "The consortium will continue to discuss how sustainable agriculture can be promoted and how the research and application gaps that exist can be filled," said Mike Snyder, director of the AAAS Pacific Rim Initiative.

INTERNET

Guidelines Prepared for Net Access

American government, industry, and universities are collaborating to develop advanced uses for the complex networked information systems needed in the 21st century. To discuss how the network can best be developed to meet the needs of universities in remote and less high-tech areas, AAAS brought together scientists, policy makers, and educators at a workshop entitled "Making the Net Work for Research and Higher Education," held on 8-9 October at the San Diego Supercomputer Center at the University of California, San Diego.

Approximately 70 presidents, deans, and research directors from universities such as Mississippi State University, the University of Montana, and Oklahoma State University met with White House officials, federal agency staffers, and other networking policy makers. The participants discussed the technology needs and financial constraints specific to smaller and rural universities and developed a set of policy guidelines for ensuring that evolving networks will be accessible by and meet the needs of the entire university community.

"It would be a great mistake if in the next generation of networks these [smaller] schools are left out," said Robert Rich, a senior program associate in AAAS's Research Competitiveness Program. The participating universities are located in the 19 states that take part in the U.S. National Science Foundation's Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR), which aims to cultivate the research capabilities of those states that in the past have received relatively little federal R&D funding.

"This is a good opportunity for us to weigh in on some initiatives that will prove very helpful not only to us in the EPSCoR states but to the nation in general," said George Dennison, president of the University of Montana. The final report from the conference will be presented to members of Congress, policy makers, and education leaders and will be available on the AAAS web site at www.aaas.org/presidents.

EASTERN EUROPE

Workshop Boosts Science Writing

Struggling science writers in Eastern Europe recently got a leg up in the business. Some 40 researchers and professors from the Czech Republic, the Slovak Republic, Poland, and Hungary attended a AAAS workshop on science writing held at the Czech Technical University in Prague on 28-30 September.

The workshop aimed to promote more publishing by Eastern European researchers in internationally recognized journals, which would result in greater recognition for their work. The workshop was sponsored by AAAS, the U.S. National Science Foundation, and the U.S.-Czech Science and Technology Committee.

The sessions, moderated by both writers and editors, addressed such topics as writing for a peer-reviewed journal, ethics in scientific information, and authorship and intellectual property rights. Online publishing and gaining access to online journals were also important themes.

"Presentation is crucial," said Richard Gallagher, Senior Editor, Science. He urged participants to submit papers to Science, and gave them such tips as tailoring the article to the style of the journal, writing with clarity, and submitting a strong letter with the article. Another AAAS writing workshop is scheduled for next spring in St. Petersburg. A web page for the workshop can be found at www.wvu.edu/~research/aaasprague.html.

AAAS Members Elected as Fellows

In September the AAAS Council elected 283 members as Fellows of AAAS. These individuals will be recognized for their contributions to science at the Fellows Forum to be held on 23 January 1999 during the AAAS Meeting in Anaheim, California. The new Fellows will receive a certificate and a blue-and-gold rosette pin as a symbol of their distinguished accomplishments. Presented by section affiliation, they are as follows:

Agriculture, Food, and Renewable Resources

Alwynelle S. Ahl, USDA

Donald H. Beermann, Cornell Univ.

Andrew C. Chang, Univ. of California, Riverside

Jan Dvorak, Univ. of California, Davis

Eugene J. Eisen, North Carolina State Univ.

Pan Ming Huang, Univ. of Saskatchewan

Joan K. Lunney, USDA

Mir S. Mulla, Univ. of California, Riverside

Robert C. Shearman, Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln

Alvin J.M. Smucker, Michigan State Univ.

Mark E. Sorrells, Cornell Univ.

John R. Whitaker, Univ. of California, Davis

Anthropology

David J. Meltzer, Southern Methodist Univ.

Douglas H. Ubelaker, Smithsonian Institution

Mark L. Weiss, Wayne State Univ.

Astronomy

Joseph A. Burns, Cornell Univ.

Donald W. Goldsmith, Interstellar Media, Berkeley

Steven J. Ostro, Jet Propulsion Lab.

Atmospheric and Hydrospheric Sciences

Thomas E. Graedel, Yale Univ.

Michael C. MacCracken, U.S. Global Change Research Program

James Callan Gray Walker, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Stephen G. Warren, Univ. of Washington

Biological Sciences

Deborah M. Barnes, Cold Spring Harbor Lab.

Franklin H. Barnwell, Univ. of Minnesota, St. Paul

William H. Benson, Univ. of Mississippi

Rosina M. Bierbaum, Office of Science and Technology Policy

Meredith Blackwell, Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge

Andrew R. Blaustein, Oregon State Univ.

Virginia Gottschall Carson, Chapman Univ.

Raymond Chollet, Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln

Frank H. Collins, Univ. of Notre Dame

Nicholas R. Cozzarelli, Univ. of California, Berkeley

Joel Cracraft, American Museum of Natural History

Diane Ebert-May, Northern Arizona Univ.

David H. Evans, Univ. of Florida

Robert O. Fox, Univ. of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston

Martin F. Gellert, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases

H. Carl Gerhardt, Univ. of Missouri, Columbia

Alexander N. Glazer, Univ. of California, Berkeley

Todd T. Gleeson, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder

M. R. C. Greenwood, Univ. of California, Santa Cruz

Wilhelm Gruissem, Univ. of California, Berkeley

Richard G. Harrison, Cornell Univ.

Mark A. Harwell, Univ. of Miami

Claude Helene, Museum National dÕHistoire Naturelle, Paris

Motonori Hoshi, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama

Joel G. Kingsolver, Univ. of Washington

Rachel E. Klevit, Univ. of Washington

John Patrick Kociolek, California Academy of Sciences

Mark A. Krasnow, Stanford Univ.

Joseph R. Lakowicz, Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore

Robert S. Lane, Univ. of California, Berkeley

Richard E. Lee Jr., Miami Univ., Oxford, OH

Elizabeth M. Lord, Univ. of California, Riverside

Philip S. Low, Purdue Univ.

John C. Lucchesi, Emory Univ.

Carol B. Lynch, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder

Michael Lynch, Univ. of Oregon

James A. MacMahon, Utah State Univ.

Paul L. Modrich, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Duke Medical Ctr.

Richard I. Morimoto, Northwestern Univ.

Andres Moya, Univ. of Valencia

Stephen J. OÕBrien, National Cancer Institute

Elizabeth M. OÕHern, Gaithersburg, MD

T. S. Okada, JT Biohistory Research Hall, Osaka, Japan

Linda L. Randall, Washington State Univ.

Ivan Rayment, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison

David N. Reznick, Univ. of California, Riverside

Jose Sarukhan, National Univ. of Mexico

J. Michael Scott, Univ. of Idaho

G. G. E. Scudder, Univ. of British Columbia

Bruce David Sidell, Univ. of Maine

Jack W. Sites Jr., Brigham Young Univ.

Mitchell Sogin, Marine Biological Lab.

Hans-Dieter Sues, Royal Ontario Museum

Manickam Sugumaran, Univ. of Massachusetts, Boston

Jeremy W. Thorner, Univ. of California, Berkeley

Michael James Tyler, Univ. of Adelaide

Charles van Riper III, U.S. Geological Survey, Flagstaff

Loy Elaine Volkman, Univ. of California, Berkeley

Diana H. Wall, Colorado State Univ.

Andrew H.-J. Wang, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana

Carol M. Warner, Northeastern Univ.

Peddrick Weis, UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School

Martin Wilson, Univ. of California, Davis

Kurt Wuthrich, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich

Chemistry

Paul M. Anderson, Univ. of Minnesota, Duluth

Bruce J. Berne, Columbia Univ.

Jean-Luc Brédas, Univ. of Mons-Hainaut, Belgium

Marvin Charton, Pratt Institute

Kuang Yu Chen, Rutgers Univ.

David R. Davies, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases

S. Walter Englander, Univ. of Pennsylvania

Nancy Makri, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana

Rowena G. Matthews, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor

James M. Mayer, Univ. of Washington

George W. A. Milne, National Cancer Institute

Donald W. Murphy, Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, NJ

Vasu Nair, Univ. of Iowa

Eiichi Nakamura, Univ. of Tokyo

Kurt Nassau, Lebanon, NJ

David F. O'Brien, Univ. of Arizona

Thomas V. O'Halloran, Northwestern Univ.

William H. Okamura, Univ. of California, Riverside

William Graham Richards, Oxford Univ.

George C. Schatz, Northwestern Univ.

Nadrian C. Seeman, New York Univ.

James R. Sheats, Hewlett-Packard Labs., Palo Alto

Douglas A. Skoog, Stanford Univ.

Terry Don Tilley, Univ. of California, Berkeley

Nancy S. True, Univ. of California, Davis

Daniel F. Veber, SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals, King of Prussia, PA

Peter E. Wright, Scripps Research Institute

William D. Wulff, Univ. of Chicago

Alejandro Zaffaroni, ALZA Corp., Palo Alto

Daniel M. Ziegler, Univ. of Texas, Austin

Dentistry

Michael L. Barnett, Warner-Lambert Co., Morris Plains, NJ

Education

James D. Ellis, Univ. of Kansas, Lawrence

John R. Jungck, Beloit College

Kenneth Tobin, Univ. of Pennsylvania

Gordon E. Uno, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman

Engineering

Jan D. Achenbach, Northwestern Univ.

Clark K. Colton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Alfred L. Crosbie, Univ. of Missouri, Rolla

Nils J. Diaz, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Rockville, MD

Paul Ducheyne, Univ. of Pennsylvania

Robert Goulard, George Washington Univ.

Susan Hackwood, Univ. of California, Riverside

Lee L. Huntsman, Univ. of Washington

Herbert S. Isbin, Minneapolis

R. Noel Longuemare, Ellicott City, MD

Larry V. McIntire, Rice Univ.

Peter H. McMurry, Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis

Phillip S. Myers, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison

Eleftherios T. Papoutsakis, Northwestern Univ.

Michael M. Reischman, Univ. of South Carolina, Columbia

Leon Riebman, Bryn Mawr, PA

Hans J. Schneider-Muntau, Florida State Univ.

Robert F. Shurtz, San Francisco

James A. Smith, NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr.

Katepalli R. Sreenivasan, Yale Univ.

Jack Keil Wolf, Univ. of California, San Diego

General Interest in Science and Engineering

Mary Lynne M. Bird, American Geographical Society, New York

Eduardo L. Feller, National Science Foundation

Naomi H. Harley, New York Univ.

Spencer E. Reames, Benjamin Logan High School, Bellefontaine, OH

Geology and Geography

Paul Colinvaux, Woods Hole, MA

A. W. Crompton, Harvard Univ.

Douglas Lamar Inman, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

George H. Keller, Oregon State Univ.

Marcia K. McNutt, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing, CA

Henry John Moore II, U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA

Stephen C. Porter, Univ. of Washington

Edward C. Roy Jr., Trinity Univ.

History and Philosophy of Science

Mary Jo Nye, Oregon State Univ.

Kathryn M. Olesko, Georgetown Univ.

Industrial Science and Technology

Claude Carrington Gravatt Jr., National Institute of Standards and Technology

Information, Computing, and Communication

Robert A. Amsler, Science and Engineering Associates, Inc., Rockville, MD

Gladys A. Cotter, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA

Alan S. Gevins, EEG Systems Lab., San Francisco

David Kristofferson, Eos Biotechnology, Inc., So. San Francisco

Alexa T. McCray, National Library of Medicine

Linguistics and Language Science

Arnold M. Zwicky, Ohio State Univ., Columbus, and Stanford Univ.

Mathematics

Jerry Lloyd Bona, Univ. of Texas, Austin

Keith Devlin, St. Mary's College, Moraga, CA

Deborah Hughes Hallett, Harvard Univ.

James A. Yorke, Univ. of Maryland, College Park

Medical Sciences

Charles E. Alpers, Univ. of Washington

Vincent T. Andriole, Yale Univ.

Barry S. Coller, Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Joseph Edgar Craft, Yale Univ.

Vittorio Defendi, New York Univ. Medical Ctr.

Don E. Detmer, Univ. of Virginia

Ivan F. Diamond, Univ. of California, San Francisco

Patricia K. Donahoe, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School

Richard L. Edelson, Yale Univ.

Lynn William Enquist, Princeton Univ.

Charles H. Evans Jr., Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences

Darrell D. Fanestil, Univ. of California, San Diego

Garret A. FitzGerald, Univ. of Pennsylvania

Sid Gilman, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Michael A. Gimbrone Jr., Brigham & WomenÕs Hospital

Howard Goldfine, Univ. of Pennsylvania

Lee Goldman, Univ. of California, San Francisco

Enoch Gordis, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism

Steven R. Gullans, Harvard Medical School

Zach W. Hall, Univ. of California, San Francisco

Clark Wright Heath Jr., Woodbine, GA

Lewis H. Kuller, Univ. of Pittsburgh

Richard M. Losick, Harvard Univ.

Robert W. Mahley, Univ. of California, San Francisco

Maurice J. Mahoney, Yale Univ.

Stephen E. Malawista, Yale Univ.

Elizabeth R. McAnarney, Univ. of Rochester Medical Ctr.

I. George Miller Jr., Yale Univ.

Jane H. Morse, Columbia Univ.

Donald E. Mosier, Scripps Research Institute

Bernard Moss, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Anil B. Mukherjee, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

James Fraser Mustard, FoundersÕ Network, Toronto

John Alexander Oates Jr., Vanderbilt Univ.

Ira Pastan, National Cancer Institute

Ching-Hon Pui, St. Jude ChildrenÕs Research Hospital, Memphis

Lee W. Riley, Univ. of California, Berkeley

Abel L. Robertson Jr., Stanford Univ.

Noel R. Rose, Johns Hopkins Univ.

George H. Rothblat, Allegheny Univ. of the Health Sciences, Philadelphia

Donald A. Rowley, Univ. of Chicago

Janet D. Rowley, Univ. of Chicago

J. Evan Sadler, Washington Univ.

Richard W. Sagebiel, Univ. of California, San Francisco

Gustav Schonfeld, Washington Univ.

Lawrence E. Shulman, National Institutes of Health

Edward L. Snyder, Yale-New Haven Hospital

Burton E. Sobel, Univ. of Vermont

Michael B. Sporn, Dartmouth Medical School

Ralph M. Steinman, Rockefeller Univ.

Richard S. Stephens, Univ. of California, Berkeley

John D. Stobo, Univ. of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston

Judith L. Swain, Stanford Univ.

John Urquhart, Palo Alto

Peter A. Ward, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Robin A. Weiss, Institute of Cancer Research, London

John A. Williams, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Marlys Witte, Univ. of Arizona

Alfred Yankauer, Univ. of Massachusetts Medical Ctr., Worcester

Neuroscience

Nancy C. Andreasen, Univ. of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City

Arthur P. Arnold, Univ. of California, Los Angeles

Howard L. Fields, Univ. of California, San Francisco

Story C. Landis, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke

Jun Tanji, Tohoku Univ., Sendai, Japan

Hans Thoenen, Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Planegg-Martinsried, Germany

Klaudiusz R. Weiss, Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Robert S. Zucker, Univ. of California, Berkeley

Pharmaceutical Sciences

Jessie L.-S. Au, Ohio State Univ., Columbus

William M. Baird, Oregon State Univ.

Kenneth Wayne Miller, American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy, Alexandria, VA

David Ross, Univ. of Colorado, Denver

Robert S. Sloviter, Univ. of Arizona

Kenneth E. Thummel, Univ. of Washington

Physics

Arthur Ashkin, Rumson, NJ

Robert H. Austin, Princeton Univ.

David P. Balamuth, Univ. of Pennsylvania

David Berley, National Science Foundation

Peter J. Collings, Swarthmore College

Jack E. Crow, Florida State Univ.

Evelyn Lynn Hu, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara

John Robert Kirtley, IBM T. J. Watson Research Ctr.

John C. Miller, Oak Ridge National Lab.

Patricia M. Mooney, IBM T. J. Watson Research Ctr.

T. Alexander Pond, Rutgers Univ.

James B. Roberto, Oak Ridge National Lab.

Sanford A. Safron, Florida State Univ.

Nicholas P. Samios, Brookhaven National Lab.

Frank Sciulli, Columbia Univ.

Sunil K. Sinha, Argonne National Lab.

Harry L. Swinney, Univ. of Texas, Austin

James Trefil, George Mason Univ.

Psychology

James H. Davis, Univ. of Illinois, Champaign

M. Robin DiMatteo, Univ. of California, Riverside

Barbara L. Finlay, Cornell Univ.

Walt Jesteadt, Boys Town National Research Hospital, Omaha

Dean Keith Simonton, Univ. of California, Davis

Shelley E. Taylor, Univ. of California, Los Angeles

Diana S. Woodruff-Pak, Temple Univ.

Social, Economic, and Political Sciences

Charles Hirschman, Univ. of Washington

David Andrew Kendrick, Univ. of Texas, Austin

Azizur Rahman Khan, Univ. of California, Riverside

Marcel C. LaFollette, George Washington Univ.

Margaret Mooney Marini, Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis

Michael Rothschild, Princeton Univ.

R. Robert Russell, Univ. of California, Riverside

Siegfried Schaible, Univ. of California, Riverside

Howard J. Silver, Consortium of Social Science Associations, Washington, DC

Barbara Boyle Torrey, National Research Council

Societal Impacts of Science and Engineering

Carl F. Cranor, Univ. of California, Riverside

Sheldon Krimsky, Tufts Univ.

Anna C. Mastroianni, Univ. of Washington

Pilar N. Ossorio, American Medical Association, Chicago

John W. Sommer, Univ. of North Carolina, Charlotte

Statistics

David L. DeMets, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison

Carl N. Morris, Harvard Univ.

Simon Tavaré, Univ. of Southern California