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      Vol.1 Number 2 ,  Spring 2004     

Mihail (Mike) Roco, NSF Senior Advisor for Nanotechnology, has been named NSF
Engineer of the Year 2004. Dr. Roco is a key architect of the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI), an interagency effort aimed at advancing research and development in nanoscale science, engineering, and technology. He also chairs the U.S. National Science and Technology Council's (NSTC) Subcommittee on Nanoscale Science, Engineering, and Technology (NSET) and directed the preparation of key NSTC reports (1999-2001) setting out 10-year research directions for this emerging field. Under Roco's coordination, federal expenditure on nanotechnology research grew from $116 million in FY1997 to $961 million in FY2004.“It has been extremely rewarding to organize and lead a major program at the frontiers of human knowledge,” Roco commented. “Only 10 years ago, it would have been impossible to organize an interdisciplinary program like the NNI, which provides the opportunity to work with people from different fields—from physics and engineering to neural sciences to social sciences—with very interesting perspectives. The NNI represents a confluence of ideas, with a focus on the ‘big picture' issues that will be important for almost all fields of science and technology.”

Source: NSF Engineering News 

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