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Reports that the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service (ARS) will sponsor a symposium, Biotic Diversity and Germplasm Preservation--Global Imperatives, in May 1988 at the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center in Beltsville, Maryland. Inclusion of invited papers, invited and contributed poster presentations, demonstrations of computer technology, and visits to ARS laboratories in the symposium; Focus of the program on the needs and opportunities to preserve and use both naturally occurring and engineered diversity; Sponsorship of the symposium by ARS in collaboration with the Friends of Agricultural Research in Beltsville, MD, and the Committee on Managing Global Genetic Resources of the National Research Council's Board on Agriculture in Washington, D.C.

Presents news briefs concerning biologists and biology. Presentation of the National Medal of Science to 20 U.S. researchers by President Ronald Reagan, including biologists Konrad E. Bloch, Michael S. Brown and Joseph L. Goldstein, Stanley N. Cohen, and Maurice R. Hilleman; Naming of biochemist Richard E. McCarty as director of the Cornell Biotechnology Program; Appointment of Eric A. Fischer, an evolutionary biologist, as deputy director of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama; Appointment of Thomas L. Poulos as director of the Center for Advanced Research in Biotechnology at the University of Maryland, and the naming of Walter J. Stevens as associated director.

The article presents news briefs related to life sciences. School of Medicine University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland has announced to offer postdoctoral research associateships in variety of medical problems and related areas. Rose Polytechnic Institute, Terre Haute, Indiana has set up a permanent faculty committee for applied biology and bioengineering. Public Health Service of the company HEW has announced General Research Support awards.

Examines the long-term solutions to accelerated eutrophication on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, and the view that they must provide mechanisms for redistributing nutrients flowing into concentrated animal-producing regions. Initial strategy; Questions which have been raised by Pfiesteria outbreaks; Phosphorus transport in agricultural drainage and on the Eastern Shore.

The article focuses on Nathan Keyfitz, professor at the University of Chicago who will speak during the American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS) Annual Meetings Plenary Session on August 15, 1966 in Baltimore, Maryland. Keyfitz will join Harrison Brown, Clement Markert, and James Crow to complete the panel to discuss topics on "Human Population Growth and the Quality of Life." Accordingly, this session will mark the first time that such a Plenary Session has been held for all biologists attending the Meetings.

The article focuses on L. C. Dunn who has been selected to deliver a lecture at the American Institute Biological Sciences (AIBS) Annual Meetings on August 16, 1966 in Baltimore, Maryland. Dunn has been chosen by the American Genetic Association to discuss the Key Memorial Lecture on "Transformation of Biology." He is a geneticist who for many yea has been associated with Columbia University and became president of the Genetics Society of America, the American Society of Human Genetics, and an emeritus professor from Columbia University.