Three Promotions at WTEC

Dr. Vitalius (Ben) Benokraitis has been promoted to Vice President for Operations.  He will be in charge of WTEC international studies and associated workshops.  He will also serve as project manager on the projects on nano achievements and opportunities and on disability research.  He is also president of WTEC’s sister company, National Science and Technology Services, LLC (dba WTEC2).

Mrs. Patricia Foland has been promoted to Director of Information Systems.  She also is a research associate, conducting research to support WTEC, and remains Baltimore office manager.

Mr. Chris McGee has been promoted to Sponsored Programs Officer.  He remains Director of Finance also.

 

WTEC Awarded $900,000 Coop Agreement by NSF

On Sept. 29, NSF announced that it was issuing a cooperative agreement to WTEC to start three new international studies.  They include vaccine development and production, achievements and opportunities in nanotechnology, and disability research.  The award also provides funds to complete a study of flexibile electronics, and support of the MATES interagency working group on tissue engineering.

WTEC joins ASTRA

The Alliance for Science and Technology Research in America is a public interest group dedicated to promoting American innovation.  It was created by Mary Good, former Undersecretary of Commerce for Technology, and now Dean of Enginering at the University of Arkansas in Little Rock.  It was modeled on Research!America, the group that successfully promoted doubling the budget of NIH.  ASTRA focuses on physical sciences and can claim some credit for the passage of the America COMPETES Act and growing support to double the budgets of NSF, NIST, and the DOE Office of Science.

http://www.aboutastra.org/

Four WTEC reports to be published as books by World Scientific

WTEC has concluded an agreement with this publisher to create book versions of the reports on:

Carbon Nanotube Manufacturing and Applications

Catalysis by Nanostructured Materials

Rapid Vaccine Manufacturing in Europe

Simulation-Based Engineering & Science

This publisher produced an attractive book on our robotics study a few years ago. labeled, “The Imperial College Press.”  This time there will not be any color illustrations, but they did agree to include the site visit appendices.  WTEC retains the right to distribute the earlier gray literature reports and electronic downloads from our website.

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China Forecast to Lead World S&T Soon (Paper by R. D. Shelton and Patricia Foland)