Dear Colleagues, On December 21st, the House of Representatives concurred with the Senate amendment to the America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2010 and has sent the legislation to President Obama to sign into law. Details can be found at: http://science.house.gov/default.aspx Nature magazine has an article in its naturenews section with additional information. It can be found at: http://www.nature.com/news/2010/101222/full/news.2010.693.html This is an authorization bill only; the levels of actual funding will be set by the corresponding appropriations bills. Sincerely, Norman Graf