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In America Fledges Wings R. M. Cleveland [1] stated: Despite the importance of the role played by the Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the promotion of aeronautics as a herald, as an awakener, as a quickening spark in the manifold fields of practical aviation, its most important and probably most lasting contribution lay in its implementation and its creation of centers of research. These centers of research are the well-known great schools of aeronautical engineering at the New York University, the Stanford University, the University of Michigan, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the California Institute of Technology, the University of Washington, and the Georgia School of Technology. It is a fact that a great majority of practicing aeronautical engineers today are either wholly educated in one of these centers or have had contact with one of these centers. Moreover, the strong influence of the Guggenheim Fund is not limited to this phase of aeronautical engineering. These centers of research contributed to a large extent to the fundamental knowledge of aeronautical science which forms the scientific basis of aeronautical engineering. Today we see an even more broadened effect exerted by the Guggenheim schools as men originally educated in these Guggenheim research centers establish new research laboratories and new schools of aeronautics in universities all over the world.

The SuperTIGER (Super Trans-Iron Galactic Element Recorder) long-duration balloon instrument has measured the abundances of galactic cosmic-ray elements from _(10)Ne to _(40)Zr with high statistics and single element resolution and its measurements extend to about _(60)Nd. SuperTIGER is the first instrument to measure the abundance of every element from Z = 30 to 40 with significant statistics, recording more than 600 nuclei with atomic number Z > 30 in its first flight. Its measured nuclear charge resolution is excellent, with σ_Z = 0.16 c.u. at _(26)Fe. From 0.8 to 10 GeV/nucleon it also measures the energy spectra of the more abundant elements with 10 ≤ Z ≤ 30. SuperTIGER-1 launched from Williams Field, McMurdo Station, Antarctica, on December 8, 2012, flew for a record 55 days and over 2.5 revolutions around the continent, returned data on over 50 million heavy cosmic ray nuclei. The instrument has now been recovered from Antarctica and preparations are underway for its next flight. Instrument and flight details, methods of charge identification employed, preliminary results from the SuperTIGER-1 balloon flight, and a summary of the recovery will be presented. The SuperTIGER-1 measurements will be discussed in the context of their stringent tests of the OB association model for the origin of galactic cosmic rays. Finally, planned improvements to the SuperTIGER instrument and future flight plans will be described. Treatment of the data depends somewhat on Z and details of the data analysis and results in ranges 10 ≤ Z ≤ 29 and 30 ≤ Z ≤ 40 are given in other talks at this conference. SuperTIGER was developed by Washington University in St. Louis, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, the California Institute of Technology, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and the University of Minnesota.

In January 1967 the Atomic Energy Commission established a Panel on High Energy Physics, for the purpose of providing advice and guidance to the commission in this area of physical science research. The panel reports to the Division of Research of the Atomic Energy Commission. It was established to consider important matters relating to this area of research and advise the commission concerning the best course of action to be taken in the interest of a vigorous and productive national high-energy-physics program. The panel is composed of 11 physical scientists; at present the membership list is as follows: Rodney L. Cool, Brookhaven National Laboratory; Earle C. Fowler, Duke University; Leon Ledermann, Columbia University; Edward J. Lofgren, Lawrence Radiation Laboratory; George E. Pake, Washington University; W. K. H. Panofsky, Stanford University; Robert Sachs, Argonne National Laboratory; Keith R. Symon, University of Wisconsin; Robert L. Walker, California Institute of Technology; C. N. Yang, State University of New York, Stony Brook; V. F. Weisskopf (chairman), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. When the following report was written, R. R. Wilson, of Cornell University, was also a member. He resigned because of the pressures of his new duties as director of the 200-Bev National Accelerator Laboratory. One of the first tasks which the panel has set itself is a review of the present status and problems of high-energy physics in the United States and, in particular, the impact of the recent budget restrictions on these activities. The panel has issued a status report on this subject, pointing out the difficulties arising from the large discrepancy between the long-range budget forecasts made in a policy statement of the AEC which was submitted to Congress by the President in 1965 and the financial support actually provided high-energy physics. The report analyzes the serious consequences for the future of this fundamental field in which the United States has invested much effort and money. The report was submitted to the Atomic Energy Commission and was subsequently transmitted to the Joint Committee for Atomic Energy of the Congress. It is presented here with minor changes for a wider audience.

National Productivity ReviewVolume 5, Issue 3 p. 293-294 Keeping Current/Book Review Productivity improvement manual, by Alan Lawlor. Westport, CT: Quorum Books, 1985. 306 pages. $35.00 Robert A. Rauch, Robert A. Rauch Robert A. Rauch is director of planning and communications for Delco Systems Operations, a unit of the GM Hughes Electronics Corporation. Mr. Rauch leads the strategic management and strategic business planning activities for Delco Systems. He has given lectures on strategic management to the Productivity Improvement group at the California Institute of Technology, in seminars at the University of California, Los Angeles and the Claremont Graduate School, and in private organizations. He is adjunct professor at United States International University in San Diego, where he teaches strategic management.Search for more papers by this author Robert A. Rauch, Robert A. Rauch Robert A. Rauch is director of planning and communications for Delco Systems Operations, a unit of the GM Hughes Electronics Corporation. Mr. Rauch leads the strategic management and strategic business planning activities for Delco Systems. He has given lectures on strategic management to the Productivity Improvement group at the California Institute of Technology, in seminars at the University of California, Los Angeles and the Claremont Graduate School, and in private organizations. He is adjunct professor at United States International University in San Diego, where he teaches strategic management.Search for more papers by this author First published: Summer 1986 https://doi.org/10.1002/npr.4040050312 AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume5, Issue3Summer 1986Pages 293-294 RelatedInformation

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The McDonnell International Scholars Academy was founded in 2005 to bring together future leaders during their time at Washington University as master’s or doctoral students. The Academy recruits Scholars from partner universities around the world and a few from the United States, and it provides tuition and a living stipend for their time to degree. The annual cohorts of 15–20 Scholars represent all seven schools at Washington University and to the extent possible all 31 partner institutions. The Academy currently has 72 alumni and 67 in-residence Scholars. A basic assumption of the McDonnell Academy is that diversity does not just happen when we put a diverse group of people together; it has to be fostered. In addition to recruiting students who say they want to be part of a diverse community, we need to encourage productive forms of interaction. To do this, the Academy strives to build trust, encourage networking, and foster friendships and professional relationships that yield “McDonnell Academy Scholars for Life.” Through the Academy’s experience, we have learned that some useful ingredients for “doing diversity” are bring together a wide mix of people who would not normally meet; build trust among this group by creating a “safe place for unsafe topics”; discuss topics that divide as well as unite the group and find the common threads that lead to productive engagement; organize initiatives and events that are part of the institutional structure of the university so as to foster involvement from all constituents; and create living communities that encourage interaction and deepen connections among a wide variety of individuals. The Academy experiences and structure can serve as a possible model to expand the idea of “doing diversity” across graduate schools, across disciplines, and across cultures and backgrounds.

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Christina Theodoris earned her BS in Biology at the California Institute of Technology and is currently pursuing her MD/PhD at the University of California, San Francisco, in Developmental and Stem Cell Biology. She is a student researcher at the Deepak Srivastava laboratory at Gladstone Institutes, focusing on gene regulatory networks and their disruption in cardiac disease to identify targets for network-correcting therapies. As an artist and a scientist, Christina endeavors to strike a balance between her 2 passions, using her experiences in art to move forward through the setbacks and missteps that are an accepted part of the scientific process as, after all, “there are no mistakes in art.” I was born and raised in Atlanta, where my parents immigrated from Greece. My parents initially came to the United States for graduate school—my father in electrical engineering and my mother in physical therapy. Growing up in Georgia, I always loved playing with my sister in the forest and really enjoyed nature and art. My sister and I were always excited for the daily math puzzle my dad would give us to figure out on the drive to school, and I was inspired by my mother’s compassion for her patients. For high school, I went to a public magnet school for art and science. Thanks to the mentorship of my extraordinary teachers, I was fortunate to be selected for the national Marie Walsh Sharpe art program, where I studied with artists Susanna Coffey and Chuck Forsman, and the national Earthwatch Institute program, where I researched signal detection theory with whiptail lizards in the Arizona desert. Experiences like these set me on the trajectory to pursue my passions in art and science. Christina Theodoris When I went to college, I knew I wanted to pursue a career in medicine; I loved pediatrics …

Previous articleNext article FreeThe Life and Career of Matthew O. HowardJeffrey M. JensonJeffrey M. JensonUniversity of Denver Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreMatthew O. HowardView Large ImageDownload PowerPointOn December 15, 2018, social work and the Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research (JSSWR) lost one of its most prolific scholars, outstanding teachers, and thoughtful mentors in recent memory. Matthew O. Howard, PhD—the Frank A. Daniels Distinguished Professor of Human Services Policy Information and associate dean for doctoral education in the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill—passed away following a lengthy hospitalization. As an associate editor for JSSWR, Matthew had a significant impact on improving the quality and influence of the journal. He will be sorely missed by our editorial team.Matthew was a consummate scholar who possessed a singular ability to understand and conceptualize social problems of all types. His research contributed greatly to existing knowledge of the etiology, prevention, and treatment of substance abuse, alcohol dependence, and mental health disorders. And, Matthew’s provocative articles assessing the state of social work education, practice, and research set forth ideas that will affect the trajectory of social work for years to come. His passion for knowledge—conveyed quietly and effectively to countless graduate students—was felt deeply by the many lives he touched over the course of an academic career that included appointments in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington, the Department of Psychiatry at the Oregon Health Sciences University, the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis, the School of Social Work and the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Michigan, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.Matthew’s training in social work coincided with my own enrollment in the University of Washington School of Social Work doctoral program in 1984. Matthew and I became immediate and close friends during our graduate studies in Seattle, and we spent hours discussing social work, class assignments, and the research projects we worked on as doctoral students. Many of these conversations occurred in an alley coffee shop in Seattle’s University District, just a stone’s throw from the School of Social Work. Known by the employees as “Matt and Jeff,” we were treated as regulars who would sit at our customary window table for what was likely far too long. It was a time of great intellectual pursuit, and I had found the perfect colleague and friend with whom to share ideas and discuss future plans. It was the beginning of a personal friendship and professional relationship that lasted 34 years.Matthew entered doctoral education with a well-developed interest in understanding the etiology of alcohol and other substance use disorders. Over the nearly four decades that followed, he devoted his career to conducting basic and applied research aimed at ameliorating substance abuse dependence and co-occurring problems associated with alcohol and drug abuse. He became particularly well known for his basic research and intervention studies addressing the vexing problem of inhalant abuse (e.g., Howard, Balster, Cottler, Wu, & Vaughn, 2008; Howard, Bowen, Garland, Perron, & Vaughn, 2011; Howard & Jenson, 1999b). Matthew’s innovative and rigorous research in this area led to three grants from the National Institute on Drug Abuse and to widespread recognition as one of the world’s foremost experts on inhalant abuse. In recent years, Matthew extended his work to testing mindfulness-oriented interventions for people with chronic pain and opioid misuse. His coinvestigator in much of this work was Eric Garland, professor and associate dean for research in the University of Utah College of Social Work. Eric, a former student of Matthew’s at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, describes some of the important lessons he learned under Matthew’s tutelage in an accompanying article in this issue (Garland, 2019).Matthew also made significant contributions to social work education and research. In the Aaron Rosen Lecture at the 2015 Annual Conference of the Society for Social Work and Research, Matthew traced key developments in social work during the past 30 years and reflected on a vision of the field that stretched to 2044—30 years into the future (Howard & Garland, 2015). The ideas he shared in this lecture have provided a useful framework for assessing the relatively recent history of social work and addressing the challenges in educating master’s-level practitioners and doctoral students in the future. Matthew delivered a similarly thought-provoking lecture on the current state and future of social work doctoral education at the 2016 Annual Conference of the Group for the Advancement of Doctoral Education. Ideas presented in his lectures were coupled with action. One such example is illustrated by Matthew’s early development of a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill doctoral-level course on conducting systematic reviews. Students in this class often produced publishable papers as a result of Matthew’s fastidious attention to breadth and quality. In earlier work at the Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis, Matthew and colleagues advanced the idea of evidence-based practice as a paradigm for training MSW social work practitioners (Howard, McMillen, & Pollio, 2003). Enola Proctor, the Shanti K. Khinduka Distinguished Professor in the Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis, was a colleague of Matthew’s at the time. She remembers Matthew as… a brilliant scholar and dear person. Highly regarded for his excellence in the classroom at the Brown School, he was demanding yet was a frequent winner of student-elected teaching awards. Matthew used his seemingly boundless energy to better the fields of addiction research and social work practice. He had my highest respect and unending affection. His passing is a tremendous loss to our field and community of scholars [and] saddens me deeply. (E. Proctor, personal communication, January 9, 2019)In 1999, Matthew and I had the good fortune to guest edit a special issue of Research on Social Work Practice that explored the utility of clinical practice guidelines for social work practice (Howard & Jenson, 1999a). Collectively, Matthew’s lectures and published papers assessing the state of social work education and practice stimulated debate and produced tangible curricula changes in schools across the country.A prolific writer, Matthew published more than 250 peer-reviewed papers in his career. His written work also included 40 book reviews, editorials, and government reports. Matthew’s h-index of 55 and nearly 9,000 citations of his work to date illustrate just how much his scholarship was valued by colleagues. His written contributions will be recognized and used by practitioners, policymakers, and researchers for decades to come.Matthew was a fellow and a board member of the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare and a fellow of the Society for Social Work and Research. A proponent of interdisciplinary work, he also was a faculty research fellow in the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill at the time of his passing. Matthew’s devotion to empirical research and scholarship is widely recognized. However, what may be most impressive about Matthew’s career is the recognition he received as both a scholar and a teacher. He was awarded eight outstanding teaching and mentoring awards from students and colleagues at Washington University in St. Louis and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Two of Matthew’s doctoral students at North Carolina (Eric Garland, University of Utah; and Carrie Pettus-Davis, Florida State University) received Doctoral Fellow Awards from the Society for Social Work and Research. Matthew connected with his students by combining high scientific standards with a compassionate approach to helping people succeed. He was soft-spoken, but his ideas and words carried great weight and influence.Matthew’s service to the fields of social work and addiction was also exemplary. He reviewed manuscripts for more than 60 different academic journals in his career. He was on the editorial boards of more than 50 journals—including serving a JSSWR associate editor for the past several years—and he previously served as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Social Service Research, Social Work Research, and the Journal of Addictive Diseases. Matthew also was vice president and served on the Society for Social Work and Research Board of Directors from 2005 to 2008.The task of summarizing the life and career of a prolific and impactful scholar, teacher, and mentor like Matthew is daunting. Mark Fraser, professor emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the founding editor of JSSWR, was a longtime friend, collaborator, and colleague. Reflecting on Matthew’s career, he recalls,As a scholar and a teacher, Matthew was eloquent and encyclopedic. Students flocked to his classes. A gentle spirit who treasured collaboration with others, his greatest joys came in exploring new ideas and reading recent research. In the profession as a thought leader, Matthew was a tour de force. At once, he was creative, insightful, sensitive, critical, and thorough. Matthew was—quite simply—incomparable. (M. Fraser, personal communication, January 8, 2019)Tangible accomplishments like those summarized here do not tell the complete story of a person. Matthew had an uncanny ability to effectively express his strong personal beliefs and ethical values in everyday interactions with friends and colleagues. He had a deep interest in applying the lessons gained from his own empirical work to promote fairness and equity for all people. Matthew’s invaluable input and feedback to students and colleagues about their ideas, papers, or projects came with great civility and kindness. He was an insatiable reader whose knowledge extended to topics well beyond social work or the addictions. In this sense, one could discuss a wide range of topics with Matthew with the preordained understanding that he had very likely already read much of what had been written on the topic. Matthew’s longstanding practice of underscoring written text with yellow highlighters was applied to thousands of empirical and conceptual articles and manuscripts during his career.On a personal level, Matthew enjoyed taking walks, listening to music, and reading novels and poetry. His wry sense of humor often left many of his closest friends and colleagues writhing in laughter. I was among them.JSSWR is proud to count Matthew as one of its most influential associate editors and contributors. His place as an important teacher and scholar in social work education and research is secure. Matthew’s many contributions will be discovered anew by emerging scholars for decades to come. His presence in social work and the broad field of the addictions will be missed by us all.NotesJeffrey M. Jenson, PhD, is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research and the Phillip D. & Eleanor G. Winn Endowed Professor Children and Youth at the University of Denver Graduate School of Social Work.Correspondence regarding this article should be directed to Jeffrey M. Jenson, University of Denver, 2148 S. High St., Denver, CO 80208 or via e-mail to [email protected]ReferencesGarland, E. L. (2019). Standing on the shoulders of giants: Matthew O. Howard as a mentor and his influence on the science of mindfulness as a treatment for addiction. Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research. 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As overwhelmingly positive results have become available regarding the ability of plants to degrade compounds such as trichloroethylene, phytoremediation studies are expanding. Studies to determine the potential for phytoremediation of fully chlorinated compounds, such as carbon tetrachloride and tetrachloroethylene, brominated compounds, such as ethylene dibromide and dibromochloropropane, and nonhalogenated compounds, such as methyl-t-butyl ether (MTBE), are underway. When using phytoremediation, it is important to select not only a plant that is capable of degrading the pollutant in question, but also one that will grow well in that specific environment. In ecologically sensitive areas, such as the Hawaiian Islands, only plants native to the area can be used. One way to supplement the arsenal of plants available for remedial actions is to utilize genetic engineering tools to insert into plants those genes that will enable the plant to metabolize a particular pollutant. Hybrid technologies, such as using plants in pumping and irrigation systems, also enable plants to be used as a remedial method when the source of the pollutant is beyond the reach of plant roots, or when planting space directly over the pollutant is unavailable or restricted. Thus, the potential uses of phytoremediation are expanding as the technology continues to offer new, low-cost remediation options.