Photograph of five unknown individuals seated at a table together. All of the individuals appear to be wearing white shirts. A couple of beverages can be seen on the table in front of them. A television, a fireplace, a door, and a window are visible behind them.

Photograph of four unknown individuals at a conference in Baltimore, Maryland. The conference was likely held by the National Association of College and University Food Services. The group consists of three women and two men who are standing side-by-side and smiling at the camera. The three individuals on the right are holding two framed dining awards.

Photograph of four unknown individuals at a conference in Baltimore, Maryland. The conference was likely held by the National Association of College and University Food Services. The group consists of three women and two men who are standing side-by-side and smiling at the camera. The three individuals on the right are holding two framed dining awards.

Photograph of two men standing at a podium, at a conference in Baltimore, Maryland. The conference was likely held by the National Association of College and University Food Services. One man stands behind the podium and the other stands beside it while the both of them look downward at the podium. A sign on the podium reads, "Omni Inner Harbor Hotel Baltimore." The back of an individual's head can be seen in the bottom lefthand corner of the image.

Photograph of two women and a man standing beside one another in a parking lot, between two parked automobiles. The woman on the left is wearing a purple t-shirt, shorts, white socks, and tennis shoes. The man is wearing a pink polo shirt, a black belt, khaki shorts, white socks, and black shoes. The woman on the right is wearing a white t-shirt, a beige unbuttoned shirt, a long beige skirt, and shoes. A street and buildings can be seen in the background.

Photograph of two women standing beside one another and smiling at the camera. The woman on the left is wearing the uniform of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police which includes a red serge jacket, a beige hat, blue pants with a yellow stripe on the side, and brown boots. The woman on the rights is wearing a light blue shirt, a multi-colored, striped vest, and multi-colored, striped pants with brown shoes. This photograph was taken at a conference in Baltimore.

Photograph of two unknown women at a conference in Baltimore, Maryland. The conference was likely held by the National Association of College and University Food Services. The women are standing side-by-side and smiling at the camera. The woman on the left is wearing a striped, colorful shirt and pants while the other woman is wearing a gray, button-up, sleeveless blouse and matching pants. The woman on the right is wearing a nametag that reads "Karen."

Photograph of two unknown women with a cat. The women are standing side-by-side and smiling at the camera. The woman on the left is wearing a striped, colorful shirt and pants while holding a cat. The other woman is wearing a colorful, zig-zag patterned shirt. A fireplace and a window can be seen behind them.

Photograph of a young woman holding up a plate of food in front of a white dining napkin that another individual is holding up. The woman looks down at the plate of food with a serious expression on her face. She is wearing a t-shirt that says "Clark," a lanyard, and a gold watch. This photograph was taken at a conference in Baltimore.

This report describes results on six years of research on how bacteria store nickel and then mobilize it into the active center of enzymes.

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC 5 television station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story.

This proposed research addresses one of the long outstanding fundamental problems in materials science, the mechanisms of deformation in amorphous metals. Due to the lack of long-range translational order, details of structural defects and their behaviors in metallic glasses have not been accessible in experiments. In addition, the small dimensions of the amorphous alloys made early by rapid quenching impose severe limit on many standard mechanical and microscopy testing. As a result, the microscopic mechanism of deformation in the amorphous materials has not been established. The recent success in synthesis of bulk metallic glass overcomes the difficulty in standard testing; but the barrier for understanding the defect process and microscopic mechanisms of deformation still remains. Amorphous metals deform in a unique way by shear banding. As a result, there is no work hardening, little macroscopic plasticity, and catastrophic failure. To retain and improve the inherent high strength, large elastic strain, and high toughness in amorphous metals, a variety of synthesis activities are currently underway including making metallic glass matrix composites. These new explorations call for a quantitative understanding of deformation mechanisms in both the monolithic metallic glasses as well as their composites. The knowledge is expected to give insight and …

Letter to NAACP members discussing the social conditions that need to be addressed as well as outlining some goals to help continue ongoing social activism.

Interview with Gary Anderson, a veteran of the U.S. Army National Guard from Wausau, Wisconsin. It includes a list of questions about Anderson's time as a medic in the late 1970s in Baltimore and Houston, where he was part of the 389th Transportation Battalion, as well as his opinions on Desert Storm and September 11th.

This report summarizes the research of the Principal Investigator, his postdoctoral research associates, and his students during the period of the award. The majority of the work concerns the behavior of hadrons containing strange, charm, bottom and top quarks, with a particular focus on the extraction of Cabibbo--Kobayashi--Maskawa matrix elements from experiments performed on such systems.

A new technique for removal of elemental mercury from emissions of coal-fired utilities was investigated. The key idea is to selectively photo ionize the mercury atoms. A strong electric field gradient then drags them to the negative plate where they can be collected and removed.

Lists the nominees for various board and committee positions as well as bylaws regarding nominations

Interview with Gary Anderson, a veteran of the U.S. Army National Guard from Wausau, Wisconsin. The transcript includes a list of questions about Anderson's time as a medic in the late 1970s in Baltimore and Houston, where he was part of the 389th Transportation Battalion, as well as his opinions on Desert Storm and September 11th.

This research grant supported the creation and initial development of a new kind of chemical detector; one that can detect species at part per trillion levels because it does not rely on the direct measurement of a species presence; rather, it uses an indirect measurement of the effect of the trace species on the condensation nucleation of a supersaturated vapor. Since this nucleation process is extremely sensitive to the concentrations of certain types of impurities, this nucleation-based detection can be made more sensitive than any current spectroscopic detector.

Quarterly membership update for October, 2003. Includes updates on goals and campaign efforts.

Letter regarding the separation of the armed services and veterans affairs dinner from the national convention.

Letter to NAACP leaders regarding voter registration drives. Letter encourages each chapter to set up registration sites and use their knowledge of their communities to get as many people registered as possible.

The technical report outlines the results of nine years of research on how ions cross the inner envelope membrane of chloroplasts. The ions include protons, nitrite, calcium and ferrous iron. Bicarbonate transport was also studied.

This report describes the main features of the results obtained in the course of this project. A new approach to the systematic development of closure relations for the averaged equations of disperse multiphase flow is outlined. The focus of the project is on spatially non-uniform systems and several aspects in which such systems differ from uniform ones are described. Then, the procedure used in deriving the closure relations is given and some explicit results shown. The report also contains a list of publications supported by this grant and a list of the persons involved in the work.