Triveipiece, 56, a nuclear physicist with experience in industry, academia and government, has directed energy research at the Department of Energy since 1981. Previously he served on the faculty at the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Maryland and was vice president at Maxwell Labs in San Diego and at Science Applications Inc. in La Jolla, Calif.
The AAAS meeting drew approximately 3,500 participants, officials said, which is several hundred more than in recent years but still less than half the attendance common in the 1960s.
A three-day symposium on "Frontiers of Neuroscience" held in conjunction with the annual meeting drew more than 400 people, according to its organizer, Daniel L. Alkon of NIH. "I think AAAS is overjoyed at the success of the experiment," Alkon said.
Organizers of the annual meeting had hoped that the symposium would lure biologists and other professionals in the life sciences ...
