News from April 2008
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 1, 2008
News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) today called on Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence (TFI) Undersecretary Stuart Levey to explain why his agency has stopped reporting details of terrorist funds seized, to tell the Committee how well other countries are...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 1, 2008
News Release: On-line process tools, improved sensor calibration and analytical and data analysis methods are among the technological challenges facing the biomanufacturing industry over the next 10 years to greatly increase manufacturing efficiency for protein drugs while ensuring safety, according to industry, government and academic experts.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 1, 2008
News Release: Hearing Statement of Senator Max Baucus (D-Mont.).
By USDA Newswire | Apr 1, 2008
News Release: A new bahiagrass may provide forage growers with a better shot at beating back weeds before they gain a stranglehold on forage pastures. Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists in Tifton, Ga., have developed a cultivar called "TifQuik" that would do just that.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 1, 2008
News Release: A research team from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Maryland has succeeded in cooling atoms of a rare-earth element, erbium, to within two millionths of a degree of absolute zero using a novel trapping and laser cooling technique. Their recent report* ...
By DOE Newswire | Apr 1, 2008
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Pete Domenici, ranking member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, today made the following opening statement during a hearing to receive testimony on S. 2593, the Forest Landscape Restoration Act. Domenici is a cosponsor of the legislation.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 1, 2008
News Release: Cape Cod National Seashore Superintendent George E. Price Jr. has announced that Cape Cod National Seashore is planning intermittent closures of Province Lands Road at night to conduct research on Eastern spadefoot toads, a threatened species in Massachusetts.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 1, 2008
News Release: Mr. James Dimon Chairman and Chief Executive Officer JPMorgan Chase & Co.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 1, 2008
News Release: Petrified Forest Celebrates National Preservation Month - May 2008.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 1, 2008
News Release: Michael D. Schroeder, a pioneer researcher in computer security, will be presented with the 2008 National Computer Systems Security Award by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the National Security Agency (NSA) on April 8 during the RSA Conference 2008 in San Francisco, Calif.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 1, 2008
News Release: Petrified Forest Celebrates National Wildflower Week - May 2008.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 1, 2008
News Release: Senate Finance Committee staff today released a bipartisan discussion draft of the President’s proposal to require information reporting by banks and other entities on reimbursements to merchants that accept electronic forms of payment, including credit and debit cards. The Finance Committee intends...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 1, 2008
News Release: Electronic commands passed from machine to machine over data networks increasingly drive today's precisely timed and sequenced manufacturing production lines. However timing irregularities in the signals from even one machine-a difference of only a tenth of a second from the expected-can result in havoc...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 1, 2008
News Release: April 26- Junior Ranger Day! - Special morning and afternoon activities for everyone to earn their Junior Ranger badge. Details on this and other National Park Week celebration events will be announced separately.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 1, 2008
News Release: Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area (NRRA) is proud to announce its inclusion in the Cumberland Plateau Nature Viewing Trail. While over seventy-five sites in the region were nominated for inclusion in this project only 48 were selected. Sites were judged based upon 23 characteristics including aesthetics, site significance, safety, and presence of cultural and historic assets.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 1, 2008
News Release: A fingerprint identification technology for use in Personal Identification Verification (PIV) cards that offers improved protection from identity theft meets the standardized accuracy criteria for federal identification cards according to researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
By Interior Newswire | Apr 1, 2008
News Release: Superintendent Gerard Baker has announced the summer schedule for Mount Rushmore National Memorial.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 1, 2008
News Release: For manufacturing engineers and linguists "interoperability" and "ontology" go together like horse and carriage-"you can't have one without the other." The matchup will be evident at the Third Annual Interoperability Week hosted by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) from April...
