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FROM THE FEDERATION OF MATERIALS SOCIETIES: The science and technology community gained a new Congressional proponent when physicist Bill Foster was elected to fill the seat of retired Rep. J. Dennis Hastert. The Illinois Democrat will serve the remainder of this year and will compete in the November election for a full two-year term. As his campaign biography states, Rep. Foster “has played a leading role in several groundbreaking experiments in elementary particle physics (over the last 25 years). He also managed several multimillion dollar accelerator construction and research projects and led teams of engineers and physicists to help build the latest round of Fermilab’s giant particle accelerators. Along the way he designed and built equipment using a number of advanced technologies, including high speed electronics, superconducting magnets, analog and digital integrated circuit design, and high-power electronics. Bill has received several awards for these technical developments.” Foster is talking about forming an informal “nerd caucus” with the other two physicists in the House—Rep. Rush Holt (D-NJ) and Rep. Vern Ehlers (R-MI). “It would be sort of like the nerd corner in the cafeteria in high school,” he told Congressional Quarterly.

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