News from April 2009
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 21, 2009
News Release: Physicists have measured and controlled seemingly forbidden collisions between neutral strontium atoms, a class of antisocial atoms known as fermions which are not supposed to collide when in identical energy states. The advance makes possible a significant boost in the accuracy of atomic clocks based on hundreds or thousands of neutral atoms.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 21, 2009
News Release: Outer Banks Group Superintendent Mike Murray invites children throughout the Outer Banks to take part in National Junior Ranger Day at their local national park sites on Saturday, April 25. "Becoming a Junior Ranger is a fun way for children to explore and learn more about the National Parks and how they can help protect these important sites," stated Murray.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 21, 2009
News Release: Outer Banks Group Superintendent Mike Murray invites children throughout the Outer Banks to take part in National Junior Ranger Day at their local national park sites on Saturday, April 25. “Becoming a Junior Ranger is a fun way for children to explore and learn more about the National Parks and how they can help protect these important sites," stated Murray.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 21, 2009
News Release: Officials for the National Park Service at Curecanti National Recreation Area have announced a change in operations at Blue Mesa Reservoir, effective immediately. “The threat of quagga or zebra mussels continues to escalate as waters in and near Colorado report infestations of these invasive aquatic...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 21, 2009
News Release: BROOKLYN, NY - House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) today, at an Oversight and Government Reform Committee field hearing in Brooklyn, New York, again questioned the divide between President Barack Obama’s promises on tracking stimulus dollars and the actions of his Administration.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 21, 2009
News Release: The next time you shop for frozen seafood, and the price per pound seems enticingly low, make sure that you are really getting a full 16 ounces of fish. Unethical merchants or suppliers may try to have you pay fish prices for ice by including the weight of the ice, not just the weight of the fish. The...
By USDA Newswire | Apr 21, 2009
News Release: Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists are making progress in determining the genes that control pit formation in plums-the first step in a project to develop pitless varieties of this fruit.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 21, 2009
News Release: Outer Banks Group Superintendent Mike Murray invites children throughout the Outer Banks to take part in National Junior Ranger Day at their local national park sites on Saturday, April 25. “Becoming a Junior Ranger is a fun way for children to explore and learn more about the National Parks and how they can help protect these important sites," stated Murray.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 21, 2009
News Release: Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore will be hosting a pruning workshop on.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 21, 2009
News Release: Please see the printer-friendly version of Senator Grassley's letter to the FDA asking about sexual harassment cases after the FDA sought Cindy Demian's resignation.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 21, 2009
News Release: New methods for exploring the behavior of the high-performance electronics materials and devices that will shape the future of the electronics industry will be the focus of the International Conference on Frontiers of Characterization and Metrology for Nanoelectronics, to be held the week of May 11-15, 2009, at the University at Albany.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 21, 2009
News Release: The National Institute of Standards and Technology's Karen Scarfone and Matthew P. Barrett received the 2009 Federal 100 Award. Presented by Federal Computer Week, the award honors the top professionals in the federal information technology community.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 21, 2009
News Release: Seeking Volunteers Who Love the Backcountry.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 21, 2009
News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) today kicked off a series of roundtable discussions on comprehensive health care reform with a conversation among health care stakeholders on how to lower costs and improve quality in the way care is delivered to patients. The discussion...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 21, 2009
News Release: In celebration of the Presidentially-proclaimed National Park Week, Flight 93 National Memorial will observe the following activities.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 21, 2009
News Release: Saturday, April 25, 7:00 p.m. - A Place of Power: Thirty Years of Stories from the Heart of the Rockies.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 21, 2009
News Release: Overworked crime scene investigators can take heart at the results of recent tests at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) of new technologies that automate the manual portion of latent fingerprint identification. Prototype systems evaluated by NIST performed surprisingly well for...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 21, 2009
News Release: Ron Ross, senior computer scientist and information security researcher at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has been named to the Information Systems Security Association's (ISSA) Hall of Fame for his leadership in the development of influential information security documents. This honor is the association's highest tribute.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 20, 2009
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced today that a series of U.S. Coast Guard projects designed to provide critical improvements and create jobs will be funded by an infusion of $240 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON—DuPont and Lucite International Inc. have agreed to pay a $2 million civil penalty to settle Clean Air Act violations at a sulfuric acid plant in Belle, W. Va., the Justice Department, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the state of West Virginia announced today.
