Vermont EPSCoR – Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research

Dear DOE EPSCoR Colleagues,

I am writing to inform you that Dr. Kristin Bennett, program manager for DOE EPSCoR, will be leaving the Department of Energy effective Feb. 1, 2008 to pursue other career goals and interests. Kristin has supported the mission of the Office and the Department for over five years in Basic Energy Sciences as a program manager in both the Division of Materials Sciences and Engineering and the Scientific User Facilities Division. She has led the EPSCoR program with energy and vision and has created a strong path forward for the program.

Dr. Tim Fitzsimmons of DMSE has agreed to serve as interim DOE EPSCoR program manager. Dr. Fitzsimmons may be contacted at 301-903-9830 ( Tim.Fitzsimmons@science.doe.gov) .

We will all miss Kristin and want to wish her the best in her new career. You may reach Kristin after February 1 at nanowoman@msn.com.

Sincerely,

Jim Horwitz, Division Director (Acting)

Dr. James Horwitz
Division of Materials Sciences and Engineering
Basic Energy Sciences
Office of Science
SC - 22.2 Germantown Building
U.S. Department of Energy
1000 Independence Avenue, SW
Washington, D.C. 20585-1290

Ph: (301) 903-4894
Fax: (301) 903-9513
Email: james.horwitz@science.doe.gov

Dear DOE EPSCoR Program Directors and Administrators,

Here are a few more important items and further updates to the DOE EPSCoR program.

1. New DOE EPSCoR Reports:
The 2007 DOE EPSCoR Annual Meeting Proceedings Report is now available on the DOE EPSCoR web site http://www.sc.doe.gov/bes/EPSCoR/Workshops.html

Hard Copies and CDs are available on request. CDs and hard copies will be distributed to all DOE EPSCoR State and Laboratory Program Directors at the next Annual Meeting.

2. NEW BES Reports that may be of interest:
Three of our most recent reports are now available as PDF files on the BES web site: http://www.sc.doe.gov/bes/reports/list.html

Directing Matter and Energy: Five Challenges for Science and the Imagination (BESAC report)
            http://www.sc.doe.gov/bes/reports/files/GC_rpt.pdf

Basic Research Needs: Catalysis for Energy (BRN report)
            http://www.sc.doe.gov/bes/reports/files/CAT_rpt.pdf

Future Science Needs and Opportunities for Electron Scattering: Next-Generation Instrumentation and Beyond (BES workshop report)
            http://www.sc.doe.gov/bes/reports/files/ES_rpt.pdf

3. DOE EPSCoR Website:
            We have added a new ‘Hot Links’ Feature on the website (about page), that included: workshops, budgets, progress reports, contacts and active awards.
            Program Directors please check that your contacts are correct. http://www.sc.doe.gov/bes/EPSCoR/about.html

4. Solicitations:
            Please watch for updates on the current EPSCoR solicitations and news that will be posted on the website. http://www.sc.doe.gov/bes/EPSCoR/index.html

Best wishes,

Kristin

Kristin A. Bennett, PhD.
EPSCoR Program Manager
Office of Science
U.S. Department of Energy
Tel: (301) 903-4269
Fax:(301) 903 1690
Wesbite: http://www.sc.doe.gov/bes/EPSCoR/