Less than a year after leaving his post as science adviser to US Secretary of State Colin Powell, Norman Neureiter has accepted the job as the first director of the new Center for Science, Technology and Security Policy at the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The center, funded with a three-year, $2.2 million John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation grant, is to serve as “a smart, two-way portal” between research institutions and the federal policymakers involved in national security issues, Neureiter said.
The center is intended to be the point of contact for Congress and the executive branch to a group of new university-based antiterrorism research centers being established by a $50 million MacArthur Foundation initiative (see Physics Today, Physics Today 0031-9228 56 3 2003 26 https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1570764 March 2003, page 26 ). “Our role will be to facilitate the movement of some of the work that...
