Office of Science & Technology - Volume 10

Volume 10 - June 29, 2006

Letter from the Editor

Feature Articles

Galician California, Galician Hell: The Peril and Promise of Oil-Production in Austria-Hungary

by Alison Frank

Learn about the Austrian-Hungarian Empire’s lesser known role as the world’s third largest oil producer.

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Undergraduate Research Collaboratives: Turning Students into Investigators

by Robert Kuczkowski et al.

Find out how the National Science Foundation’s Chemistry Division tries to instill the spirit of scientific inquiry in undergraduates.

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Galileo and GMES: Europe's Symbols of Independence in Space

by Norbert Frischauf & Alexander Soucek

Gain insight into two of ESA's most prestigious programs to maintain and improve its technological-strategic portfolio within the space domain.

by Frederic Nordlund

Mr. Nordlund, head of ESA's Washington Office, provides with this article a fresh horizontal look at the state of what is believed to be the most intense, active, and productive cooperative axis of the international space community.

by Johannes Loschnigg

What is going to happen with NASA and their current fiscal dilemma? The congressional appropriations process for FY2007 has just recently begun, and the decisions made this year will have an effect for many years to come.

by Caroline Adenberger

bridges spoke with Prof. Julian Adams, one of the "pioneers" of the JSF program, which brings senior scientists for one year into the State Department to work together with foreign policy makers.

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The Transportation Energy Center at the University of Michigan: Fuels for the Future

by Johannes Schwank

The University of Michigan in Ann Arbor has established the Transportation Energy Research Center to help find solutions to the many open questions and challenges in the transportation energy sector.

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Science at the Poles - Research As Cool As it Gets

by Irene Eckart

Today it is not necessarily the adventure that motivates young scientists to travel to the poles but the state-of-the-art research conducted at polar stations like the CONCORDIA station located on the Antarctic high plateau.

by Mark McCaffrey

People are becoming more aware of how the melting of summer sea ice in the Arctic is impacting their lifestyle. The International Polar Year 2007-2008 will be the fourth such year focused on Polar Regions and their global connections.

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Science as Social Activity

by Muriel Lederman

Integrating the social studies of science into science education would make explicit the cultures of science, which have been revealed by historians, philosophers, sociologists, and feminist science scholars.

by Roland Haas and Vera Brandes

Kalt's Corner on Science & Society

Pielke's Perspective