ACS has two new Congressional fellows

Tale of Two Fellows

Acs New Energy Technology Symposium

T he fifth New Energy Technology Symposium was held at the 241st American Chemical Society (ACS) meeting at the Sheraton Park Resort in Anaheim, California on March 27 and 28. The organizer of the symposium, Dr. Jan Marwan of Dr. Marwan Chemie, was unable to chair the meeting due to personal reasons. However, the sessions of the symposium were co-chaired by Dr. Francis Tanzella of SRI Internati...

Two-tiered political entrepreneurship and the congressional committee system

Theories of political entrepreneurship usually focus on the construction of coalitions necessary to change policy. We argue that political entrepreneurs who are unable to secure favored policies may redirect their efforts to a “higher tier,” attempting to change the rules of the game to enable the exploitation of future political profit opportunities. We present a taxonomy of three levels of po...

Dawkins and Latour: A Tale of Two Unlikely Fellows

Two popular, yet highly controversial concepts of non-human agency from two different fields of knowledge are compared in this essay: the theory of the selfish gene, introduced into neo-Darwinian evolutionary biology by Richard Dawkins, and actor-network theory, as brought forward in science & technology studies by Bruno Latour. It is argued that the two theories, despite all apparent differenc...

New fellows of the Acoustical Society of America.

Fall 2006 Meeting, joint with the Acoustical Society of Japan (Honolulu, Hawaii). The Technical Committee on Acoustical Oceanography AO sponsored two special sessions: 1 “Acoustic scattering by aquatic organisms,” organized by Ken Foote Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and Masahiro Furusawa from the Acoustical Society of Japan; and 2 “Ocean acoustic tomography for coastal and deep water app...