News from January 2012
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 24, 2012
News Release: The Department of Commerce's United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is seeking nominations for the 2012 National Medal of Technology and Innovation. The medal is presented each year by the President of the United States and is this country's highest award for technological achievement.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 24, 2012
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has imposed sanctions on a produce business for failure to pay a reparation award issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 24, 2012
News Release: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has finalized its first set of guidelines for managing security and privacy issues in cloud computing.*
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 24, 2012
News Release: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is accepting applications for the 2012 Summer Institute for Middle School Science Teachers and the Research Experience for Teachers (RET) program. These two opportunities give teachers the chance to spend time on the NIST campus in Gaithersburg, Md., learning from and working with scientists and engineers.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 24, 2012
News Release: Custom modifications of equipment are an honored tradition of the research lab. In a recent paper,* two materials scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) describe how a relatively simple mod of a standard scanning electron microscope (SEM) enables a roughly 10-fold improvement...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 24, 2012
News Release: Rome, NY: The staff and volunteers at Fort Stanwix National Monument invite you to join in the 2012 Backyard Club program and learn how to "up-cycle" by turning your trash into works of art! The program takes place on Saturday, February 18 from 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. and from 1:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. at the Fort Stanwix National Monument's Willett Center.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 24, 2012
News Release: Superintendent Walter J. Chavez announces the grand opening of the Discovery Center at San Juan National Historic Site on Friday, Jan. 27, 2012 at 9:30am.The Discover Center, the heart of educational programming for children, is located just a few steps away from the historic entrance of Castillo...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 24, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today issued the following response to President Obama’s State of the Union address...
By USDA Newswire | Jan 24, 2012
News Release: Cattle that graze on rangelands in the western United States may soon have a new forage option, thanks to work by a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientist.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 24, 2012
News Release: The International Biometric Performance Conference 2012, to be held March 5-9 at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), will bring together evaluators, users and technology providers to discuss recent advances in the fields of biometric testing, performance definition and specification, ...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 24, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today issued the following statement after Gov. Mitt Romney disclosed that he received $13 million in “carried interest" in 2010 and 2011, compensation that was taxed at the 15 percent capital gains rate rather than at ordinary income tax...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 24, 2012
News Release: A team of physicists from the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI), the Neils Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, Denmark, and Harvard University has developed a theory describing how to both detect weak electrical signals and cool electrical circuits using light and something very like a nanosized loudspeaker.* ...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 24, 2012
News Release: Bonus bids at the Bureau of Land Management's January 24 oil and gas lease sale in Billings totaled $35,975,750. The highest single-parcel bid was $4,096,000 submitted by Kodiak Oil & Gas of Denver, Colorado for a 640-acre U.S. Forest Service parcel in McKenzie County, North Dakota. Continental Resources...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 24, 2012
News Release: Last week, the White House issued a memorandum recognizing the role of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in helping agencies implement best practices for standards development activities to address national priorities. The memo clarifies how federal agencies should work with the private sector in standards development, and it stresses the importance of public-private partnerships to the U.S. standards system and promoting innovation.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 24, 2012
News Release: Half Dome Trail Stewardship Plan Draft Environmental Assessment Available for Public Review.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 24, 2012
News Release: Three new draft reports published by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) are designed to help both public and private organizations improve the security of their information management systems by developing capabilities for continuous monitoring of security. Comments are requested on the drafts.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 24, 2012
News Release: War in the Pacific National Historical Park invites the public for a special Movie in the Park program on Saturday, January 28 at 6 p.m.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 24, 2012
News Release: House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) issued the following statement in response to President Obama’s State of the Union address...
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 24, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON - Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., issued the following statement Tuesday after the President’s State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 24, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Encouraging the Obama Administration to follow its own directives regarding transparency in regulations, members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee today wrote to Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson to request that EPA release an estimate of the total cost of EPA’s recently finalized Utility MACT rule.
