January 7, 2003
NIH Observes
NCI's Susan Gottesman
Electron Microscope
NIH Health Fair
Asthma Highlights Health Disparities Discussion
Management Intern Program Recruits Candidates for 2003
Annual King Program Scheduled, Jan. 16
Ambassador Bushnell
Mouse Muscles Restored
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At Sixth Shannon Lecture Kennedy Surveys Borderlands of Public, Private Knowledge By Rich McManus
Standing atop the dual promontories of editor-in-chief of Science
magazine and president emeritus of Stanford University, Dr. Donald
Kennedy surveyed both the positive and unintended negative
consequences of exposing the frontiers of
knowledge formerly regarded as a public
province to private parceling in the sixth annual James A.
Shannon Lecture on Nov. 20. He argued that the Bayh-Dole Act of
1980, enacted to stimulate the transference of the fruits of public
research into marketable products, has had largely the same effect
on the "knowledge commons" or intellectual frontier, that the
Homestead Act of 1862 had on public lands of the American West,
settled and made productive during the 19th century. Both acts
reordered sensitive ecosystems which, viewed in retrospect,
forfeited some integrity or at least some cultural coherence.
T.K. Li Joins NIAAA as Director By Charlotte Armstrong
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