Vice President's Message

Expenditures for FY 2005-2006

An exceptionally swift reconciliation of research accounts for the 2005-06 fiscal year that has just ended indicates that Stony Brook recorded expenditures of some $159.4 million. This represents a decline from the previous year. Although Stony Brook's results appear to reflect a phenomenon being experienced at other SUNY research campuses, I am concerned about this development in the larger context of trends in federal support for basic research and am convening a meeting of deans later this week to consider appropriate steps to ensure our campus' continuing leadership in research and creative activity.

FDP Survey on Administrative Burden for Researchers

Last year I announced a survey conducted by the Federal Demonstration Partnership (FDP) for the purposes of assessing the administrative burden borne by faculty members conducting federally funded research. RF was a participant organization and some of you may have been contacted directly by the professional survey company engaged to gather and analyze the data. The results have been tabulated and analyzed and the study is summarized in the online (subscription required) The Chronicle of Higher Education.

The administrative burdens reported are considerable: only 58% of time spent on federally funded research was in "active research." 42% was about equally divided between post award research administration and pre award research administration. Administrative burdens listed included grant progress reports, personnel hiring, procurement, IRB protocol approvals, training personnel and students and personnel evaluations.

Thank you to those who participated!

Recruitment Advertising for Post Doctoral Positions

The university will be placing an advertisement in Science magazine's Post Doc Careers (Sept. 15) issue, with concurrent web listings for campus post-doctoral positions. If you would like your opening to be listed in these Ads, all postings for Post-doctoral positions must be received and reviewed by Human Resources Services no later than August 4, 2006. HRS must approve all Post-doctoral Personnel Requisition forms (HRSF0064's) and advertising text before inclusion in the journal advertisement. For more information about the process for the advertisement and for recruiting post-docs, please click here.

New Addition to OVPR Staff

We are pleased to announce that Stefanie Massucci has joined OVPR recently. As Associate Multidisciplinary Project Coordinator, Stefanie Massucci will work closely with Associate VP Martin Schoonen to help faculty develop compelling multidisciplinary proposals. Stefanie Massucci has been a longtime Research Foundation employee and most recently held the position of Fiscal Officer and Business Manager of the NY Seagrant Program. Stefanie Massucci can be reached by phone, 631-632-8589, and email, smassucci@notes.cc.sunysb.edu.

--Contributed by Martin Schoonen, Associate Vice President for Research &
Professor of Geochemistry

Good News and Coming Events

News

Chronicle of Higher Education Lauds President Kenny

President Kenny was featured on the cover of the June 16 Chronicle of Higher Education with SUNY Chancellor John R. Ryan. Along with an article describing what's happening with SUNY as a whole, there is a piece on President Kenny's accomplishments in transforming Stony Brook ". . .over the past decade into a solid research institution with national clout in science, medicine, and engineering." President Kenny's leadership in overhauling undergraduate education, campus beautification, and the university's co-management of Brookhaven National Laboratory were also noted as high points of her work here.

US News and World Report Graduate Rankings

In their 2007 edition of "America's Best Graduate Schools" U.S. News and World Report cites Stony Brook eight times with seven graduate programs in the top 50 in the country and one sub-program in the top ten. The rankings reflect data from surveys of more than 1,200 programs and over 9,600 academicians and professionals. The ranked programs are: Physics (22nd), Mathematics (26th with Geometry, a Mathematics 'specialty' ranked 7th), Geosciences (28th), Computer Science (34th), Materials Engineering (34th), Biomedical Engineering (36th), and Computer Engineering (49th).

26 University Hospital Physicians Named Among New York Magazine's Best Doctors in New York

The June 19 issue of New York Magazine features a list of the best doctors in the Greater New York Metropolitan Area selected from more than 50,000 physicians in the area. In collaboration with Castle Connolly Medical, a research and publishing company, the magazine based its rankings on questionnaires sent to 16,000 top physicians in and around New York.

"We are very proud that our physicians have earned this recognition from their peers," said Richard N. Fine, Dean of the School of Medicine. "As the only academic medical center on Long Island, we have access to cutting edge research and innovative techniques developed in the university's School of Medicine that help us play a leadership role in health care and in the region."

The doctors that made the list are: Carole Agin, Pain Management, Mary Andriola, Pediatric Neurology, David Baker, Obstetrics/Gynecology, Harris Cohen, Diagnostic Radiology, Patricia Coyle, Neurology/Multiple Sclerosis, Deborah Davenport, Obstetrics/Gynecology, Raphael Davis, Neurological Surgery, Marie Gelato, Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism, Martin Kareph, Surgery, Dorothy Lane, Preventive Medicine, Brian O'Shea, Surgery, Margaret Parker, Pediatric Intensive Care, Robert Parker, Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, John Pomeroy, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Autism, Lesley Rechter, Family Medicine, Michael Richheimer, Allergy and Immunology, John Ricotta, Surgery (Vascular), Maisie Shindo, Surgery, Carmen Tornos, Pathology, Stephen Vlay, Cardiology, Deborah Weisbrot, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Thomas Wilson, Pediatric Endocrinology, Michael Zema, Cardiology.

Undergraduate Science Education

The University has been awarded a $1.8 million dollar grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) for the further development of science education. A series of awards in the past 16 years has provided consecutive funding by HHMI for undergraduate science education, says Principle Investigator for the award, David Bynum, "This support has allowed us to greatly improve the state of science education at Stony Brook and throughout Long Island." The four-year award will be used to remodel and equip a science laboratory, design new courses, and provide fellowships for undergraduate students, as well as support undergraduates to spend a summer performing research with a HHMI investigator.

Biochemistry

Distinguished Professor and Chairman, Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, William J. Lennarz is honored in the Journal of Biological Chemistry (Vol. 281, Issue 29, 23, July 21, 2006—online at: www.jbc.org/cgi/content/full/281/29/e23?etoc&eaf) for his classic 1969 article in the same journal, "Studies on the biosynthesis of mannan in Micrococcus lysodeikticus. II. The enzymatic synthesis of mannosyl-1-phosphoryl-undecaprenol." The article gives a synopsis of his distinguished career and describes the breakthrough he made at Johns Hopkins described in the 'Classic' paper as "it seems possible that in eukaryotic systems, as in bacterial systems, activated lipid-linked sugars mediate the synthesis of glycose-containing macro-molecules that are associated with the membranous components of the cell."

Chemistry

Joanna Fowler, Adjunct Professor of Chemistry and Director of the Center for Translational Neuroimaging at Brookhaven National Laboratory, has received the 2006 New York State Senate Woman of Distinction Award. The award was presented to her in Albany by Senator Caesar Trunzo (3rd Senate District, Brentwood) for her "selfless dedication to science, education and health [which] are an inspiration for the entire community," said Senator Trunzo. Professor Fowler's most recent research centers on using neuroimaging to study the mechanisms of drug addiction.

Computer Science

Professor Michael Bender, along with collaborators at Sandia National Laboratory and the University of Illinois were awarded an R&D 100 Award from R&D Magazine in recognition of the 100 most technologically significant products introduced into the marketplace over the past year. The award was for the Compute Process Allocator, a computer algorithm technology that increases processing efficiency on massively parallel supercomputers.

Ecology and Evolution

A paper by George C. Williams, Ecology and Evolution (emeritus) was chosen by the online journal affiliate of Science, Science of Aging Knowledge Environment (www.sageke.org), as a classic paper. Published in Evolution (Evolution 11, 398) in 1957, the paper, "Pleiotropy, Natural Selection, and the Evolution of Senescence," discusses the author's theory of senescence—which is the loss of a cell's ability to divide and grow, usually associated with aging. Williams' theory posits that senescence is not the result of regular wear and tear but an evolutionary side effect caused by the natural selection of certain genes that, while benefiting organisms when young, have detrimental effects in later life, thus favoring the period of development where sexual reproduction would be most likely.

Electrical Engineering

Distinguished Professor Serge Luryi will be a speaker at the Nano and Giga Challenges (NGC) in Electronics and Photonics 2007 Conference in March 2007 in Phoenix, Arizona. It will feature a symposium and a series of tutorial lectures.

Physics

Stony Brook graduate student Enju Lima has been awarded the 2006 Gertrude Scharff-Goldhaber Prize, given to graduate students in physics who are enrolled at SBU or who are performing their thesis research at Brookhaven National Laboratory. The prize is administered by Brookhaven Women in Science (BWIS) to honor the "outstanding contributions of the late nuclear physicist Gertrude Scharff-Goldhaber, who, in 1950, became the first woman Ph.D. physicist appointed to the Brookhaven staff."

Lima did her doctoral thesis research at Brookhaven's National Synchrotron Light Source, among other facilities, where she studied the structure of yeast cells, seeking to improve a technique for X-ray diffraction microscopy of biological samples.

New Administrative Appointments

The Provost, Robert L. McGrath recently announced the appointment of distinguished researchers Professor W. Brent Lindquist, Applied Mathematics and Statistics, and Olufemi Vaughan, Africana Studies and History, as Associate Provosts. Please join us in welcoming them to their new administrative responsibilities.

On the other side of campus, Richard Fine, Dean of the School of Medicine, has announced the appointment of Professor Sharon Nachman, Pediatrics, to Associate Dean, Office of Scientific Affairs and Director of the re-developed Office of Clinical Trials. Professor Nachman brings a wealth of expertise in the conduct of clinical research as well as industry collaboration. Dean Fine also appointed Professor William H. Greene, Infectious Diseases, to Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs in an effort to tie together the clinical efforts of the medical school and the hospital. Professor Greene has been a leader in all the quality initiatives undertaken by the School of Medicine.

Recent Research Results

Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Researchers from various divisions of the Department of Medicine have identified a gene, Vasoactive Intestinal Peptide (VIP), as an "anti-asthma" gene. Their work, which could have important implications for the treatment of asthma, was published in the June 15 online version of the American Journal of Physiology-Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology. Professors Anthony M. Szema, Sayyed A. Hamidi, Sergey Lyubsky, Kathleen G. Dickman, Tarek Abdel-Razek, and John J. Chen, under the leadership of Sami I. Said, were all involved in the discovery.

Biomechanical Engineering

Professor Clinton T. Rubin, Chair of Biomedical Engineering and Director of the Center for Biotechnology, was featured in the Saban Distinguished Lecturer Series at Childrens Hospital in Los Angeles. He gave a talk, "The Development and Application of Non-Pharmacological Intervention for Osteoporosis: From Barnyard to Bedside and Beyond", at Childrens Hospital on June 9. Professor Rubin's work has shown that high frequency/low magnitude vibrations increase bone mass in animal models and clinical studies, providing a potential treatment for subjects with osteoporosis, a skeletal disorder characterized by bone weakness.

Preventive Medicine

Distinguished Professor M. Cristina Leske was the lead author in a paper that revealed new data, from one of the only two published studies in the U.S., on the possible links between breast cancer and light-at-night from both occupational and residential exposures. The study left unresolved issues and found no significant relationship between breast cancer and overall shiftwork or evening shiftwork alone. Surprisingly, they found a 45% reduction of the rate of cancer for evening shiftworkers, but in a small subset of women (not shiftworkers) who most frequently woke up and turned on lights at home during sleeping hours researchers found a positive association with breast cancer—a 65% increase.

"We urge caution in interpreting the suggested association between breast cancer and a high frequency of light-at-night exposure at home during sleeping hours," said Leske. Co-authors from Preventive Medicine included Elinor Randi Schoenfeld, Erin S. O'Leary, Kevin Henderson, Roger Grimson and Geoffrey Kabat.

Psychiatry

Professor and Vice-Chair Arthur A. Stone, Psychiatry, co-authored a paper published in the June 30 issue of Science that casts doubt on the widely held belief that that the rich are happier than you and me. The paper, " Would You Be Happier If You Were Richer? A Focusing Illusion," found that " people with above-average income are relatively satisfied with their lives but are barely happier than others in moment-to-moment experience, tend to be more tense, and do not spend more time in particularly enjoyable activities." The authors of the paper go on to conclude that because we focus on conventional societal measures, money being one, when we assess our happiness, there is an illusory connection made between happiness and wealth.

Events

July 20-29: "11th Annual Stony Brook film Festival at the Staller Center"

A Stony Brook event, this year's film festival will feature great films, great seminars, panels and, in conjunction with the Southampton Writers Conference, special guest star Alan Alda. To quote Alan Inkles, the Director of the Staller Center and Festival Director, "As ever, our goal is to bring our community the finest, freshest and most exciting Independent films from around the world." For more info the festival website is: www.stonybrookfilmfestival.com

July 26-30: "Southampton Writers Conference"

This year the Southampton Writers Conference will take place at Stony Brook University, July 26-30 at the Wang Center. This summer’s Writers Conference will combine a reunion of old friends with a welcome for new participants. E.L. Doctorow will present the keynote for an extensive program of readings, lectures, panels, and conversations. For registration and more information visit the website at www.stonybrook.edu/writers.

August 3-6: "Asian American International Film Festival at the Wang Center"

For a complete schedule of all the films which include features and shorts, please go to: www.stonybrook.edu/sb/wang/aaiffschedule.shtml

Wine Center Events

July 23: "Sapore d'Italia: A Tasting of Italian and Italian American Wines and Foods"

The flavors of Italian cuisine have astonishing cultural depth, persisting today in the craft of winemakers in both Italy and the United States. This program offers a variety of delicious food and wine pairings from some of the finest authentic producers, ranging from Italy's Castello di Banfi to Long Island's Diliberto Vineyards. 5:30–7:00 pm, Wang Center Chapel, price: $30 per person. Co-presented with the Staller Center for the Arts New York premiere of Manual of Love at the Stony Brook Film Festival .

The Wine Center has an extensive program of tastings and events on Long Island's East End this summer. Slow Mondays, in partnership with the Slow Food East End Convivium, will take place at various locations on the East End and will offer community members a chance to meet local growers and taste their artisanal products, with an emphasis on leisurely pleasure. The Winetasters Circle will have a series of varietal tastings, with an experienced winemaker in an intimate group, on Thursdays at the Plaza Café in Southampton. Please go to www.stonybrook.edu/sb/winecenter/eastendevents.shtml for a complete schedule and information on pricing and location.

Note: age 21 and over, please. The Center has a 48-hour cancellation policy.

January 12-15, 2007: "5th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities"

Call for Papers/Abstracts/Submissions requested from all areas of the Arts and Humanities. Submission Deadline: August 23, 2006

The 5th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities will be held from January 12 (Friday) to January 15 (Monday), 2007 at the Renaissance Ilikai Waikiki Hotel in Honolulu, Hawaii. The conference will provide many opportunities for academicians and professionals from arts and humanities related fields to interact with members inside and outside their own particular disciplines. Cross-disciplinary submissions with other fields are welcome. Performing artists (live dance, theater, and music) interested in displaying their talents will be accommodated whenever possible. Sponsored by: Asia-Pacific Research Institute of Peking University and University of Louisville - Center for Sustainable Urban Neighborhoods.

For detailed information about submissions see:
http://www.hichumanities.org/cfp_artshumanities.htm
Web address: http://www.hichumanities.org
Email address: humanities@hichumanities.org

Opportunities and Sponsor Information

2007-2008 Fulbright Scholar Awards

Competition for the Fulbright Scholar programs has begun this spring. The program offers lecturing and research awards in some 150 countries for university faculty, administrators, professionals from business and government as well as artists, journalists and scholars. There are awards in 45 different fields and sub-disciplines. Application deadlines for 2007-2008 awards are: August 1, 2006 for Fulbright traditional lecturing and research grants worldwide, November 1, 2006 for the summer German Studies Seminar and for spring/summer seminars in Korea and Japan for academic and international education administrators, February 1, 2007 for the U.S.-Germany International Education Administrators Program and a rolling deadline for the Fulbright Senior Specialists Program.

To get more information, register and apply online please go to http://www.cies.org

Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP)

Through this DURIP competition, the DoD intends to award approximately $41 million for FY 2007, subject to the availability of funds. These funds will be awarded via grants made by ARO, ONR, and AFOSR (hereafter referred to as “agencies”). Grants will be for the purchase of research equipment costing $50,000 or more, for items that typically cannot be purchased within the budgets of single-investigator awards. An individual award may not exceed $1,000,000 in DoD funding. In FY 2006, 183 awards totaling $40.4 million were made. Awards ranged from approximately $51,000 to $1,000,000 averaging $217,000; very few awards exceeded $500,000.

FULL PROPOSAL DEADLINE: applications must be received no later than 4:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time Tuesday, 12 September 2006. URL for the full text of the announcement:
http://www.afosr.af.mil/Documents/funding_DURIP07BAA-f1a.pdf

NSF Two Year Graduate Fellowships in STEM Disciplines

The fellowships provide $30,000 dollars a year for two years to students who have completed a bachelors degree in the STEM (science, technology, engineering or mathematics) disciplines. In order to be eligible for consideration students must also have participated in one of the NSF Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP) programs. The SUNY LSAMP program at SBU has just applied for this NSF Supplement called the Bridge to the Doctorate Program and chances for funding are extremely high. The purpose of this program is to find strong students who may not yet have applied to graduate school or students who have shown that they can handle masters level work and have an express interest in continuing to doctoral programs. For more information or any inquiries please contact Lucy Gluck, Tel: (631) 632-9988, email: Lucille.Gluck@stonybrook.edu

These are the eligible disciplines for the program:

Biomedical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, Computer Science, Chemistry, Physics and Astronomy, Geosciences, Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Mathematics, Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Anatomical Sciences, Biochemistry and Structural Biology, Ecology and Evolution, Genetics, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Molecular and Cellular Pathology, Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology, Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Neuroscience, Oral Biology and Pathology, Physiology and Biophysics, Biopsychology

Upcoming Funding Opportunities

For a complete list of upcoming deadlines, please go to -
http://www.stonybrook.edu/research/fndopp/deadlcal.html

Interdisciplinary Seminars

Please remember that, in an effort to encourage interdisciplinary research on campus, this office will supply $100 toward a speaker's luncheon when your department invites a Stony Brook colleague from an unrelated discipline to give a seminar. Please contact Ann-Marie Scheidt amscheidt@notes.cc.sunysb.edu to determine eligibility. You will be asked to provide a copy of the seminar notice annotated with the number of attendees and a brief description of any anticipated collaborations with the speaker's department.

Music for Meetings

Please remember that the OVPR would like to assist those of you who are planning a research meeting on campus by providing musical interludes. If you would like to have Stony Brook student musicians play at the reception for your meeting it can be arranged by contacting Ann-Marie Scheidt amscheidt@notes.cc.sunysb.edu. OVPR will make a payment to the Department of Music and the Department in turn pays the students. You get to listen to some nice music.

NIH Announces Streamlined Review Process for Ruth L. Kirchstein National Research Service Awards (NRSA)

Beginning with grant applications submitted for the August 5, 2006, receipt date, all study sections will use the NIH’s streamlined review process for the review of Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Awards (NRSA) Postdoctoral Fellowship applications (F32). Go to this link for the full notice:
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-06-077.html

"NIH at the Crossroads: Myths, Realities and Strategies for the Future"

A presentation prepared by Dr. Elias Zerhouni, the Director of NIH, and his staff looks at the current budget situation at NIH and how it will impact the success of grant proposals. It was presented to the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) on May 24. A copy of the presentation in PDF form is available here:
http://www.aamc.org/research/apr/ezerhouni.pdf

NIH Offers PIs Resource, "What Investigators Need to Know About the Use of Animals"

Principal Investigators now have a succinct resource to quickly grasp the main expectations and requirements when using animals in research supported by the Public Health Service (PHS). The Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare (OLAW) created the brochure to inform PIs of their compliance responsibilities under the PHS Policy on Humane Care and Use of Laboratory Animals. Hard copies of the document will be provided by SBU's Office of Research Compliance—please contact Mary Johnson 631-632-9036. A copy is also available online at:
http://agrnts.nih.gov/grants/olaw/InvestigatorsNeed2Know.pdf

--Contributed by Judy Matuk, Director of Research Compliance

NIH: Percent Effort to Person Months FAQs and Calculator Now Available

The NIH Extramural Newsletter addresses how the 'person months' unit of measurement collected by the SF 424 (R&R) grant application is different from the PHS 398 application "percent time and effort" measurement unit. The transition to "person months" will be addressed on these NIH webpages:
Frequently Asked Questions Regarding the Usage of Person Months,
A downloadable Excel-based interactive conversion calculator,
Both are also available on the Grants Policy and Guidance Web site.

Essential Policies, Procedures and Resources

Power Outages and Other Emergencies

As temperatures climb and the heart of the hurricane season approaches, please remember that the campus Website has an Emergency Management page and its components include links to status reports and means of communication:

Emergency Status
http://www.stonybrook.edu/sb/emergency/status.shtml

Emergency Communications
http://www.stonybrook.edu/sb/emergency/comm.shtml

It should also be noted -- thanks to Executive Director of Campus Operations and Maintenance Amy Provenzano -- that as a major electricity user the campus is a participant in a statewide electrical load reduction program that requires us, when called upon because of a statewide electrical system-wide emergency, to reduce the total electrical load to 33.7 MW from our normal load of 36MW for the duration of the emergency. The campus has already been notified that an emergency will likely be called for some period this afternoon, and tomorrow and Wednesday as well. The emergency responses include
- slowing down speeds of noncritical air handlers
- turning off unnecessary lighting (including perimeter garage lighting)
- turning off down escalators
- turning off certain elevators where there are more than one in a building

RF Equipment Insurance - Rate Reduction

We've been advised by the RF Legal Office that their Insurance Agency has reduced their rate for the Property Floater Insurance Policy to $.86 on the $100 value (down from $.95) effective July 1, 2006. Since the University has no other funding to provide for damage to, or loss of equipment, this is your only vehicle for protecting your equipment. This low cost coverage through AMSURE protects equipment against loss anywhere in the world. Most sponsors allow equipment insurance to be charged to grants and contracts (for the current budget period) as an acceptable way to protect the equipment necessary to conduct the project. We strongly recommend that you consider this option. Your Grants Management Specialist can give you additional information regarding this insurance as well as claim settlements and policy regulations.

For detailed information please refer to the Equipment Insurance Guide at: http://www.stonybrook.edu/research/gmo/equipins.html

--Submitted by Aaron Rosenblatt, Assistant VP for Grants Management

Change in Facilities and Administrative Rate for Evaluative Testing Agreements

Effective July 1, 2006, The Office of the Vice President for Research will be raising the Facilities and Administrative Rate for Evaluative Testing, which includes pharma sponsored and initiated clinical trials from 20% to 25%. This is being done at this time to bring the rate more in-line with the other SUNY schools so that negotiating master agreements with companies will be less cumbersome and to align it more closely with the nationwide rates which currently range from 25-35%. Therefore, all proposed budgets on Evaluative Testing Agreements submitted to the sponsor on or after 7/1/06 should reflect a rate of 25%. Should anyone have any questions, please contract Mr. Ivar Strand, Assistant Vice President, Office of Sponsored Programs at 2-4402, or via e-mail at IStrand@notes.cc.sunysb.edu.

Updated Fringe Benefit Rates

An updated Fringe Benefit Memo has been posted here on our website for your reference. Please note at this time the FY07 rates have been approved by DHHS and the FY07 rate breakdown has been updated.

If you have any questions please contact your Sponsored Programs Administrator or Coordinator at 2-9949/2-4402.

New Office of Clinical Trials

Coming in July: New Office of Clinical Trials, offering assistance, training and support for both new and experienced investigators. The Office will serve as a link between Stony Brook University and Industry and will facilitate bringing cutting edge research to Stony Brook University. Sharon Nachman, Pediatrics, is the director of the office. Please visit the website at:
www.osa.sunysb.edu/octs

--Contributed by Agnes O'Connor, Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Tel: (631) 444-7618

Library Purchases Nature Archive

Since 1869, Nature has published original research in all fields of science and technology; prize papers include the first X-ray picture of a protein, the discovery of the electron, and Watson and Crick's double helix. With support from the Office of the Vice President for Research the library's purchase of the Nature archive will expand its current subscription which begins in 1997 to include all the articles published in Nature from 1950 to 1996. Stony Brook University researchers will be able to access any of these articles 24/7 from any location with an internet connection. The archive went online in early July and is now available for use. Access is through the Nature link at:
http://ezproxy.cc.sunysb.edu:2048/login?url=http://www.nature.com/nature/
From there, just click on Archive.

The Commerce Department Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) Announces the Withdrawal of the Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR) Published in March, 2005 Regarding Deemed Exports

BIS has, in effect, rejected the Commerce Department's Office of Inspector General (OIG) recommendations on deemed exports—keeping citizenship or permanent residency status as the basis for licensing requirements for deemed exports rather than country of birth and refusing to broaden the definition of "use" in connection with controlled technologies. For more information please go to this link containing information from Robert Hardy at the Council on Governmental Relations.

http://www.stonybrook.edu/research/exports-cogr.html

Research Foundation Tuition Waiver Program

Human Resource Services, Benefits Staff is pleased to announce that the B140w State/Research Foundation Tuition Waiver Application is available for the fall semester. Please click on the link below for State and Research Foundation Benefits to find the Employee Tuition Waiver Program informational memo. The B140w application and instructions can be down loaded from our website http://www.stonybrook.edu/hr/benefits, click on Forms and Publications, look for Benefits and click on form number B140w & B140lwl.

--Contributed by Alessandra White/Administration

For More Information

Gail S. Habicht is Vice President for Research. She can be reached at (631) 632-7932. An abundance of specific information for the research community is available on our Website, where past issues of this bulletin can also be found.

Office of the Vice President for Research -
http://www.stonybrook.edu/research/

Monday Memo archive - http://www.stonybrook.edu/research/monmemo/mmarchive.html

All Past issue of Monday Memo are keyword searchable.

And if you are challenged by the embarrassment of riches in the over 2,000 individual Web pages that comprise the Website, you may find the alphabetical site index helpful. The index can be accessed at - http://www.stonybrook.edu/research/sitemap.html.