The exhibition will highlight in nearly 35 exhibits leading research and education projects supported by the National Science Foundation. Members of Congress, their staff, officials of the National Science Foundation, The White House and the media are invited to attend the exhibition and reception. Last year's event drew more than 375 attendees. Registrations to attend can be made by contacting Anita Benjamin at 202-588-1100 or at alb@ams.org Registration is complimentary. Presentations at the exhibition will address a wide range of exciting research investigations, including:
- ensuring a supply of water in a changing world;
- understanding the earth-surface dynamics of earth, water and life;
- ecological observation through a national network;
- ocean observatories & expeditions;
- prospecting in a microbial world;
- disease prediction and treatment design;
- understanding genomics of maize and roots;
- gas-phase synthesis of nanostructured materials;
- insights from cross-cultural psychology;
- intelligent automation for manufacturing;
- ecology of infectious disease in wild birds;
- impact of Katrina on the Mississippi gulf coast;
- distributed computer vision;
- testbed for next generation wireless;
- evolution and genetics of social interactions;
- design and control of bipedal robots;
- predictions of sunspot activity;
- when do children use race to make judgments about peer relationships;
- cellular nanomachines;
- mathematics throughout the curriculum
The Coalition for National Science Funding (CNSF) is an alliance of more than 100 organizations united by a concern for the future vitality of the national science, mathematics, and engineering enterprise. CNSF supports the goal of increasing the national investment in the National Science Foundation's research and education programs in response to the unprecedented scientific, technological, and economic opportunities facing the United States. For more information on CNSF, visit www.cnsfweb.org
Following are the exhibits listed alphabetically by sponsoring organizations, followed by exhibit titles, presenter and presenter's affiliation:
American Astronomical Society; The Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA);Anthony Remijan; NRAO
American Educational Research Association and American Psychological Association; Technology-Enhanced Learning in Science: Helping Students Understand Science by Visualizing How It Works; Marcia C. Linn, Ph.D.; University of California, Berkeley
American Geological Institute/Geological Society of America American Geophysical Union;
SAHRA--Sustainability of semi-Arid Hydrology and Riparian Areas: Ensuring Water in a Changing World; James Hogan and Gary Woodard; SAHRA
American Geological Institute/Geological Society of America/American Geophysical Union
National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics: Earth, Water, Life; Karen Campbell; NCED
American Institute of Biological Sciences; National Ecological Observatory Network; Bruce Hayden, Ph.D.; University of Virginia
American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering; Cellular Nanomachine; Dr. Sean Sun
Johns Hopkins University
American Mathematical Society; Disease Prediction and Treatment Design; Eva K. Lee, Ph.D.;
Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Industrial & Systems Engineering
American Society for Engineering Education ; Graduate Research & Education in Advanced Transportation (GREATT); Becky Golombeck and Denise Brown;
Pennsylvania State University, College of Engineering
American Society for Microbiology; ASM & NSF: Prospecting in the Microbial World
Gary M. King, Ph.D.; University of Maine, Darling Marine Center
American Society of Agronomy/Crop Science Society of America/ Soil Science Society of America; Functional Genomics of Root Growth and Root Signaling Under Drought
Prof. Henry T. Nguyen; University of Missouri
American Society of Mechanical Engineers; Gas-Phase Synthesis of Nanostructured Materials;
Dr. Stephen Tse; Rutgers University
American Society of Plant Biologists; The Maize Genome Project; Prof. Patrick Schnable;
Iowa State University
American Sociological Association; The Beginning School Study: Life Course Patterns of Urban Youth Through the 3rd Decade; Karl Alexander, Ph.D.; Johns Hopkins University
Coalition for Academic Scientific Computation; HPC@Work; David Hart; Indiana University
Computing Research Association; Women in Information Technology; Lucy Sanders;
National Center for Women in Information Technology
Federation of Behavioral, Psychological & Cognitive Sciences; Historical, Political, and Ecological Factors Affecting National Culture: Insights from Cross-Cultural Psychology;
Michele J. Gelfand, Ph.D.; University of Maryland
Joint Oceanographic Institutions; Ocean Observatories & Expeditions; Dr. Kendra Daly;
Mathematical Association of America; Mathematics Throughout the Curriculum; Daniel Maki, Ben Beranek, Edie Cespedes and Emily Crouch; Indiana University
Michigan State University; Intelligent Automation for Manufacturing; Ning Xi
Museum of Science, Boston; Nanoscale Informal Science Education Network; Andrea Durham and Patti Curtis; National Center for Technological Literacy @ the Museum of Science, Boston
Natural Science Collections Alliance; Insects of the Dominican Republic; Brian D. Farrell, Ph.D.;
Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University
Northwestern University; The Cultural Context of Learning: Native American Science Education; Douglas L. Medin;
The Ohio State University; Nanotechnology for Medicine and Clean Energy; L. James Lee
Ornithological Council; Urban Bird Studies: Citizen Science for City Kids and Ecology of Infectious Disease in Wild Birds; Janis Dickinson, Ph.D. and André Dhondt, Ph.D.;
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Population Association of America/Association of Population Centers; The Impact of Katrina on the Mississippi Gulf Coast; David A. Swanson; University of Mississippi
Princeton University; Biogeochemistry of Trace Metals and Phytoplankton Ecology; The Morel Research Group; Center for Environmental BioInorganic Chemistry
Purdue University; Accelerating Nanotechnology to Nanoscience through a Cyber Community on nanoHUB.org; Prof. Mark Lundstrom, Prof. Gerhard Klimeck and Matthew Potrawski
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Distributed Computer Vision; Dr. Richard Radke
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey; ORBIT: Testbed for Next Generation Wireless; Marco Gruteser
Society for Research in Child Development; When Do Children Use Race to Make Judgments About Peer Relationships? Dr. Melanie Killen; University of Maryland, Department of Human Development
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR); Prediction of Sunspot Activity Matthias Rempel; High Altitude Observatory, National Center for Atmospheric Research
University of California; Novel Uses of Light for Biomedical Applications; Dr. Michael Isaacson
University of California, Santa Cruz, Baskin School of Engineering
University of Michigan; Design and Control of Bipedal Robots; Prof. Jessy Grizzle and Benjamin Morris
University of Tennessee; Size Matters! in the evolution and genetics of social interactions; Susan Riechert