Universities Space Research Association

Invited Paper on Imaging in High Energy Astronomy , Sept., 1994, Capri, Italy also Universities Space Research Association... 

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University Research. Some of the most important pioneering research in space environments for humans has come from universities. For example, work done under the auspices of the Universities Space Research Association (which includes the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University, Stanford University, and more than one hundred other universities) in medical and biotechnology fields has studied the use of microwave devices for closing wounds and the development of a means for measuring the effects of radiation on astronauts. 

Stern then became a research fellow at the Center for Space Geosciences Policy (1988-91) and research associate in the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (1989-90) at Colorado and research associate at the Center for Astrophysics and Space Astronomy (1990-91). In 1991, he joined the Southwest Research Institute, an independent, nonprofit applied research and development organization with headquarters in San Antonio, Texas. He has since served as principal scientist (1991-92), section manager (1992-97), and department director (1998- ) in the Institute s Space Science Department located in Boulder, Colorado. In 2002, Stern was appointed full professor adjunct in the Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences at the University of Colorado. 

Received May 12, 1977. R. V. Gemmer was a National Research Council-National Aeronautics and Space Administration Resident Research Associate, 1975-77. M. L. Rosenberg is a Research Associate, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA 95192. 

Zurich. He moved to the United States as research associate of applied mathematics, joining the Institute of Mathematical Sciences, the New York University, serving from 1956 to 1958 as head of the applied mathematics section, the Computing Center of the Ramo-Woolridge Corp., Torrance CA, continuing then until 1961 at Space Technology Laboratories,... 

Hiroshi Suemasu - bom in 1952, he received a Doctor of Engineering degree from the Department of Aeronautics at the University of Tokyo in 1980. He worked first in the Aerospace Laboratory at the University of Tokyo as a Research Associate fiom 1980 to 1986. During this period, he worked as a Visiting Research Assistant Professor in the University of Illinois from 1983 to 1985. He was employed by Sophia University as an Associate Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering in 1986. He was a Visiting Researcher at the National Aerospace Laboratory, Japan, fiom 1988 to 1991 and a Visiting Associate Professor at the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science of Japan fiom 1989 to 1991. He stayed as an Alexander von Humboldt (AvH) fellow in the Institute for Composite Materials (TVW), University of Kaiserslautern, from 1992 to 1993. He was promoted to Professor in 1994 in Sophia University. He was awarded twice in 1987 and 2001 by the Japan Society for Composite Materials. 

ROBERT SAMUELSON was a research scientist at the Goddard Space Flight Center for 39 years and is presently a research associate with the Astronomy Department at the University of Maryland. His specialities include radiative transfer in scattering atmospheres and the interpretation of radiometric and spectroscopic data from ground-based and space-borne infrared instruments. He is a co-investigator for the Cassini Orbiter infrared spectrometer and the Huygens Probe aerosol collec-tor/pyrolizer experiment. 

A.G. receives support from NASA through grant HF-1031.01-92A awarded by the Space Telescope Science Institute which is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., for NASA imder contract NAS5-26555. 

ROBERT L. RIEMER joined the staff of the National Research Council in 1985. He served as Senior Program Officer for the two most recent decadal surveys of astronomy and astrophysics and has worked on studies in many areas of physics and astronomy for the Board on Physics and Astronomy (where he served as associate director from 1988 to 2000) and the Space Studies Board. Prior to joining the NRC, Dr. Riemer was a senior project geophysicist with Chevron Corporation. He received his Ph.D. in experimental high-energy physics from the University of Kansas-Lawrence and his B.S. in physics and astrophysics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. 

Charles E. Kolb, Chair, graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a B.S. in chemical physics and from Princeton University with an M. A. and a Ph.D. in physical chemistry. Dr. Kolb is president and chief executive officer of Aerodyne Research, Inc., in Billerica, Massachusetts. His principal research interests include atmospheric and environmental chemistry, combustion chemistry, materials chemistry, and the chemical physics of rocket and aircraft exhaust plumes. He has served on several National Aeronautics and Space Administration panels dealing with environmental issues as well as on six previous National Research Council (NRC) committees and boards dealing with atmospheric and environmental chemistry. Dr. Kolb also served on the NRC s Committee on the Review and Evaluation of the Army Chemical Stockpile Disposal Program (member, 1993-1998 vice chair, 1998-2000). He is a fellow of the American Physical Society, the American Geophysical Union, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Optical Society of America. 

Coy Fitch (1934- ) as a medical student at the University of Arkansas School of Medicine (Little Rock, Arkansas), became interested in biochemistry and was provided research space and other resources. He earned an master of science (MS) in biochemistry as well as a doctor of medicine (MD) in 1958 and remained at the School of Medicine as a resident in medicine and Russell M. Wilder-National Vitamin Foundation Fellow in biochemistry (1958-1962). By the time the residency was completed he had developed an interest in membrane transport processes, and he remained on the faculty of the University of Arkansas as an assistant professor of medicine and biochemistry studying such. Five years later, he moved to the Saint Louis University School of Medicine (Saint Louis, Missouri) as Associate Professor of Internal Medicine and Biochemistry. That move made him vulnerable to military service. As a consequence, he was promptly drafted into the Army and assigned to the Division of Biochemistry of the WRAIR. 

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