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The article presents information related to the National Council on Measurement in Education annual meeting which was held in San Francisco, California in 2006. The meeting included sixty five paper sessions, two board sessions and a cocktail party and reception. Some of the photographs which highlights the awards which presented in the meeting is also presented.

This article presents proceedings of the 108th annual meeting of the American Economic Association (AEA) held in San Francisco, California from January 5-7, 1996. The John Bates Clark Medal for 1995 is awarded to the economist David Card in recognition of these impressive achievements. Card has largely defined and developed the currently dominant methodology in applied labor economics. This approach sets out a testable hypothesis, searches for exogenous variation in the key determinants, and leads to the labor and time-intensive development of an appropriate data base. He has successfully applied this methodology to the most important issues in labor economics, and his research papers have achieved the status of standard references in many areas. The one hundred and eighth annual meeting of AEA was called to order by President Victor Fuchs on January 6, 1996. The first item on the agenda to be considered was minutes of the previous annual meeting as published in Papers and Proceedings issue of the journal "The American Economic Review."

Presents news briefs relating to biology and biologists. Awards which were presented to Roger Renvelle of the University of California at San Diego and to Senator John Chafee of Rhode Island; Appointment of Anthony J. Dennis as vice president of biotechnology at Battelle in Columbus, Ohio; Presentation of the Bicentennial Medallion of Distinction from the University of Pittsburgh to Herbert Boyer of the University of California at San Francisco; Scientists who have joined the staff of the American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS), including Patricia Lynn Donaldson, Peter Richard Jackson, and Gillian R. Woollett.

The article presents various announcements of several societies in the U.S. The 10th national meeting of the Operations Research Society of America will be held in San Francisco, California on November 15-16, 1956. The Johns Hopkins University will award the third annual Lanchester Prize of $1000 for the best operations-research paper published in calendar year 1956. The council of the Operations Research Society of America has agreed to underwrite the publication of a series of independent bound volumes called Operations-Research Monographs.

The article highlights the "Audio Engineering Society (AES) 121st Convention" held in San Francisco, California from October 5 to 8, 2006. The event was opened by AES executive director Roger Furness. The delegates were welcomed by AES president Neil Gilchrist. The Publications Awards were given to Gilbert Soulodre, Scott Norcross and Michel Lavoie for their paper "Objective Measures of Listener Envelopment in Multichannel Audio Systems."

Provides information on the recipients of the Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (TMS) Awards to be presented at the TMS Annual Meeting in San Francisco, California, from February 13 to 17, 2005. Hamish L. Fraser; Matthew R. Barnett; James W. Evans; John P. Hager; Uichiro Mizutani.

The article discusses issues related to the College on the Practice of Management Science's prize competition in the year 1977. A major purpose of the College on the Practice of Management Science is to promote practice. Since there is a general feeling that practitioners do not normally publish their work, an attempt was made to devise a scheme, which would provide a continuing positive incentive for publishing practice. Given that personal gain is a strong motivator, the prize competition was devised. Members of the Council of the College on the Practice of Management Science served as judges. After having reviewed all abstracts, the judges considered each one for its responsiveness to the call for papers. Roughly half of the submissions were rejected on that basis. It was considered important to the judges to verify the claims of the various authors. Each author was personally contacted and asked to give references on impact. These references were high-level management personnel of the organization under study. The task of selecting the finalists was completed based on relative impact. Because of the diversity of the applications being reviewed, such a relative evaluation was difficult. The finalists were scheduled to present their work at a conference of the College on the Practice of Management Science held in conjunction with the joint ORSA/TIMS meeting in San Francisco, California in May 1977.

R.C. Aalberse received the 1997, Jack and Rhoda Pepys award. It was presented, by T.A.E. Platts-Mills on the occasion of the joint session at the annual meeting of the European Academy of Allergology and Clinical Immunology and American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology, in San Francisco, California.

The article presents information about a special prize announcement that has been established by Munksgaard International Publishers to be awarded to the first-listed author of the best original article published in the Journal of Cutaneous Pathology during 1996. Candidates must be residents or fellows in training at the time of submission of the manuscript and a verification letter must be submitted by the training director confirming the status of the candidate. Nominations should be in letter form to the editor and should include the name of the candidate, a statement about the training status and a rationale about why this work deserves special consideration for the prize.

Presents news briefs relating to biologists and biological research. Awarding of the 1988 World Food Prize, sponsored by General Foods Fund, to Robert F. Chandler, Jr., the founder of the International Rice Research Institute; Presentation of the Moet Hennessy-Louis Vuitton Prize to Stanley N. Cohen of Stanford University School of Medicine and Herbert W. Boyer of the University of California for their experiments in cloning and development of recombinant DNA techniques; Reception of the 1987 Robert Allerton Award for Excellence in Tropical Botany by Peter H. Raven, director of the Missouri Botanical Garden; Appointment of new members to the National Research Council's Board on Agriculture, including Theodore L. Hullar, Timothy M. Hammonds, Paul W. Johnson, and Robert L. Thompson.

The article presents information about several developments in the field of biosciences. Albert J. Aguayo, professor of neurology and neurosurgery at McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, has received the 1982 Wakeman Award for Research in the Neurosciences. A Water Technologies Board has been created within the Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems of the National Research Council (NRC) which will provide a focus for the NRC's advisory activities in water resources engineering. Frank H. Talbot has been appointed the director of the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, California.

Presents news briefs related to Internet computing as of June 2005. Information on new approval and classification systems adopted by the Open Source Initiative board for open-source licenses at its April 205 meeting in San Francisco, California; Recipients of the 14th annual Pioneer Awards of the Electronic Frontier Foundation; Background on new top-level domains approved by the International Corp. for Assigned Names and Numbers at its April 2005 meeting in Argentina.

The article offers information on the 101st Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association. Joseph L. Fleiss was presented with the 1973 Mortimer Spiegelman Gold Gold Medal Award during a November 7 Statistics Section luncheon at the 101st Annual Meeting the association. Raymond P. Shafer, former governor of Pennsylvania, delivered the first Rosenhaus Lecture at the Awards Session on November 5 in San Francisco, California. H. Jack Geiger, a community health care proponent and civil rights advocate, and James Westland Wright, a tropical medicine biologist were presented with the American Public Health Association's first Awards for Excellence in Nov. 5, 1973.

The Donald Q. Kern Award for 2004 was conferred on Dr. Ramesh K. Shah at the Summer Annual Heat Transfer Conference, San Francisco, Calif., on July 19, 2005. Although editorials in Heat Transfer Engineering usually deal with heat transfer processes or heat exchangers, I would like to use this page to salute an outstanding practitioner of heat transfer. First, a few words about Don Kern. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]