Letter to the President

LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT Letter from the President

I have just come back from attending ECMI 2002 in Latvia. About 150 people took part in the conference which was held in the delightful resort town of Jurmala, about 20km south of Riga. The invited speakers covered a wide range of topics and all gave interesting talks as did the minisymposium speakers and the other contributors. The participants enjoyed the weather and surroundings in Jurmala a...

Letter from the Transitional President

This newsletter is the latest development in a trend that has been evident for some time now: qualitative methods are undergoing a renaissance unlike anything seen for the last 25 years. This resurgence has been demonstrated in a number of ways. Over one thousand members of the American Political Science Association, including twenty eight APSA Presidents and seven APSR Editors, signed the peti...

An open letter to President Bush.

The vital principle of “separation of church and state” grew out of the experience of early American Quakers and other minority religious groups. As Quakers in the modern world we are troubled that your administration appears ready to repudiate this historical principle through proposals known under the names "Charitable Choice" and "Faith-Based Initiative." We believe these measures will work ...

Letter from AIChE President

Quantitative approaches and application of fundamentals are the currency of chemical engineers. Our accomplishments in pharmaceuticals, food, materials, and energy are unsurpassed in providing solutions critical to societal well-being. For the last 40 years, spurred by the biological revolution and the expansion of the pharmaceutical industry into biologics, chemical engineering—as in any robus...

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