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bridges vol. 13, April 2007 / News from the Network: Austrian Researchers Abroad
In its "moves & milestones" section, bridges presents career steps and other outstanding events in the professional lives of Austrian scientists and scholars in the US and Canada. Karl Hess  was appointed to the National Science Board (NSB) in 2006 by US president George W. Bush. The National Science Board serves as advisory body for the President and the Congress, and establishes policies for the National Science Foundation.
Hess has been a member of the faculty of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (electrical and computer engineering and physics since 1977); since June 2006, he has been a professor emeritus. He has received an honorary Doctor of Sciences from the ETH (Swiss Federal Insitute of Technology) Zürich, Switzerland, as well as a number of national and international awards including the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) J. J. Ebers Award, the IEEE Sarnoff Technical Field Award, and the Hein-rich Welker Memorial Award. To learn more about him, please visit http://www.nsf.gov/nsb/members/hess.htm 
Martin Nowak published another paper in Science magazine (http://www.sciencemag.org) in December 2006 in which he enunciates and unifies the mathematical rules for the five understood bases - kin selection, direct and indirect reciprocity, network reciprocity, and group selection - of the evolution of cooperation. In his paper, he suggests that evolution is constructive because of cooperation, which is the secret behind the open-endedness of the evolutionary process, and that we might add "natural cooperation" as a third fundamental principle of evolu-tion alongside mutation and natural selection. Martin Nowak is director of the Program for Evolutionary Dynamics at Harvard University.
To obtain more information on Martin Nowak, including all his recent publications, please visit http://www.ped.fas.harvard.edu/people/faculty/index.html
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