BIOPHYSICAL SOCIETY NEWSLETTER
9
OCTOBER
2014
professor emeritus at Stanford University;
Paul
Milgrom
, professor at Stanford University; and
R.
Preston McAfee
, chief economist at Microsoft, for
their research on game theory and auctions that
led to the first auctioning of the spectrum by the
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in
1994 and the subsequent rapid advance of the
global telecommunications industry. The research
was funded by the Atomic Energy Commission,
National Science Foundation, and Office of
Naval Research.
US Representative
Jim Cooper
(D-TN) first
proposed the Golden Goose Award when the late
Senator
William Proxmire
(D-WI) was issuing the
Golden Fleece Award to target wasteful federal
spending and often targeted peer-reviewed science
because it sounded odd. Cooper believed such an
award was needed to counter the false impression
that odd-sounding research was not useful. In
response to that proposal, a coalition of business,
university, and scientific organizations created the
Golden Goose Award in 2012. The coalition be-
lieves that federally funded basic scientific research
is the cornerstone of American innovation and
essential to our economic growth, health, global
competitiveness, and national security. Award
recipients are selected by a panel of respected scien-
tists and university research leaders. The Biophysi-
cal Society joined the coalition in 2013 and is a
sponsor of this year’s awards.
NIAMS Appoints New
Council Members
The National Institute of Arthritis and Musculo-
skeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS), NIH, has ap-
pointed five new members to its advisory council.
The new members are
Gary A. Koretzky
, Weill Cor-
nell Graduate School of Medical Sciences;
Grace
K. Pavlath
, Emory University School of Medicine;
Christy Sandborg
, Stanford University School of
Medicine;
Alexander Silver
, P2 Capital Partners
LLC and the Jackson Gabriel Silver Foundation;
and
Gwendolyn Powell Todd
, professional advocate
for patients with cicatricial alopecia.
The mission of the NIAMS is to support research
into the causes, treatment and prevention of
arthritis and musculoskeletal and skin diseases; the
training of basic and clinical scientists to carry out
this research; and the dissemination of informa-
tion on research progress in these diseases. Council
members provide advice to the institute on broad
policy issues and make recommendations on
research proposals.
Congressional
Science & Technology
Policy Fellowship
Interested in using your science skills
to inform science policy?
Interested in spending a year
working on Capitol Hill in
Washington helping develop policy?
Apply to be the first BPS
Congressional Fellow!
Application deadline:
October 14, 2014
Visit
for additional information.
