Ellis PHOTO BY JEFF MILLER/U OF WISCONSIN, MADISON

Ellis will develop instructional materials on nanoscale science and technology for undergraduate science and engineering curricula. "Our educational enterprise needs to have the same vitality as our research enterprise," Ellis tells C&EN. "We can ensure this by continuously infusing education and outreach activities with the latest advances in research and technology."

"These awards show the very high priority that NSF places on promoting" this vision of integrating research and education, Colwell said, noting that NSF received 68 proposals. Other awards went to Leah H. Jamieson, Purdue University; Gretchen Kalonji, University of Washington; Eric Mazur, Harvard University; Joseph O'Rourke, Smith College, Northampton, Mass.; H. Eugene Stanley, Boston University; and Carl E. Wieman, University of Colorado, Boulder.

John H. Marburger III, director of the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy, gave the keynote address, his first since being confirmed on Oct. 23 as OSTP head and the President's science adviser. "The energy, excellence, and success of the research enterprise all depend on openness to people and ideas from every quarter," Marburger said. It is this openness that enables "the grand adventure of discovery."

Universities must frame their discussion of ideas against the backdrop of terrorism, he said. Each university will have to work out how it responds to the tasks of enforcing immigration laws and restricting access to certain kinds of materials and fields of study, he said. Such discussions have already started on many campuses. These issues will be among those occupying Marburger in the weeks ahead.

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