ODIN Newsletter March Issue Available On-Line

The March issue of the ODIN Interchange Newsletter is available on our website at http://www.odingsfc.com/newsletters/GSFCMar03.pdf. This issue features Accelerated Refresh, TCP/IP Address Block Removal, Email Etiquette, ODIN Printer Service, Wallops ODIN News, Desktop Services Notes, and more.

Attention Goddard Innovators!

Secure your eligibility to receive monetary awards by reporting new technologies to the Technology Transfer Program by submitting a NASA Form 1679. To find out what's available, and to report technologies electronically, please access "eNTRe" via the Technology Transfer Program website, http://techtransfer.gsfc.nasa.gov, or directly by visiting http://entre.nasa.gov.

Men and Women Needed for Energy/Nutrition Study

The USDA/John Hopkins Universtiy is holding information meetings to recruit an additional 100 adults 30 to 69 years old for summer groups in 2003. If you are already participating in this study, do not respond to this message -- you may not participate more than once.

This study is designed to learn about what people eat and the calories they burn. THIS IS NOT A FEEDING STUDY AND THERE ARE NO DIETARY RESTRICTIONS. Participants will receive $325 for completing the main study, plus $25 for each of two optional tests.

Following a medical evaluation and blood and urine screening, participants will be selected based on their age, height, weight, health status, and availability to complete the study. Diabetics, persons taking diuretics or certain steroid medications, and nutrition professionals are excluded from participating.

Over a 14-day study period (during April - June), participants will agree to: travel 5- 6 times to the Beltsville Human Nutrition Research Center; drink a special water solution which will be used to help measure the calories they burn, be interviewed three times by a trained interviewer about the foods they eat, and have blood and urine samples collected and their body composition measured.

Information Meetings: Interested? You must attend a 1-hour information meeting at the Beltsville Human Nutrition Research Center, Center Drive, Building 307, Room 114, Beltsville, MD 20705. Specific questions about the study will be addressed at the meeting. For dates, times and dirving directions click here; you must attend ONE of them to participate.

Blood Drive, April 2

The Washington Hospital Center will be here on Wednesday April 2, 2003, from 8:30 a.m. to 2:15 p.m., in the Building 8 Auditorium to accept blood donations. To schedule an appointment, please call Tony Robinson at 5-3546 by the close of business on April 1, 2003.

SOME FACTS TO REMEMBER:

-Several Goddard employees depend on blood products to sustain life
-Each donation could Possibly save 3-4 lives
-Each donation produces 7 different blood products
-Our area uses approximately 1,000 units of blood daily

Most healthy persons at least l7 years of age can donate every eight weeks, with a minimum weight of 110 lbs. The process of giving blood is always under the supervision of a Medical Unit Supervisor. The procedure includes a medical check, actual donation and some time for relaxation and refreshments. Please be sure to get sufficient rest the night before and eat a well balanced breakfast and lunch the day you donate. You never know whose life that you may help save.

You may not donate blood if you have spent 3 months or more in the UK since 1980; or if you have traveled to the United Kingdom, eastern Europe, western Europe, the country of Oman, and Turkey since 1980 and spent a total of 6 months or more in all of these countries.

Call for Papers - 6th MAPLD International Conference

Abstracts are being accepted for the 6th annual Military and Aerospace Programmable Logic Devices (MAPLD) International Conference. Programmable devices, technologies and related aspects of digital engineering will comprise the major emphasis of this conference.

This year, there will be a special emphasis on papers with the following themes:

• Reliability of Hardware and Designs; Fault Tolerance
• Reconfigurable/Adaptive Computing Systems
• Long-term Space Missions: > 15 Years
• Hardware and Software: The line is blurring
• Radiation Hardening by Design
• Digital Signal Processing with Programmable Devices
• Design Security
• "War Stories" and Lessons Learned

The event will occur on September 9-11, 2003 at the Reagan Building and International Trade Center, Washington, D.C.

For more info, visit: http://klabs.org/richcontent/MAPLDCon03/admin/mapldcon03_cfp.html

Wanted: Bands & Singers for Free Lunchtime Concerts

Singer and bands are wanted to entertain GSFC employees for free Lunchtime Concerts sponsored by the Goddard Employee Welfare Association (GEWA) from May through September. All performers receive an opportunity to showcase their talents and, as a token of appreciation for their choice at the GSFC Building 21, Cafeteria. For information, please contact Cindi Jones-Savoy, GEWA Chairperson, at x6-7149 or email at Cynthia.A.Jones-Savoy @nasa.gov.

12th Annual Spring Crafts Fair - April 16

GEWA's Spring Crafts Fair will be held from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. in the Bldg. 8 auditorium. Registration is only $15 per space (10'x10' area with one 3'x5' table) and is open to all GSFC government and contractor employees, retirees, family members and friends. Items must be handmade. Send an email to csimkins@pop400.gsfc.nasa.gov for a registration form. Checks and forms are due to Catherine Simkins (Code 427, Bldg. 16W) by COB April 9th.

Volunteers Needed for Educational Program

Goddard Education Programs has received a request for volunteers for:

Liberty High School Science Fair, volunteers to serve as judges for the first annual Liberty High School Science Fair in April 2003. The event is sponsored by the Science Club and is for students in grades 9-12. The Science Fair committee cordially extends an invitation to you for participation in judging exhibits, interviewing each student about his/her projects and experiences investigating selected math, science and technology topics. If you are interested, please contact Kelly McCauley, Science Coordinator, at ManateeRay@aol.com.

Timonium Elementary School Career Day, volunteers will serve as speakers to highlight their careers by providing interactive learning experience for students. There are booths available for students to visit whereby they can choose three careers that interest them the most. The activity will be an all day event on Wednesday, May 21, 2003, from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm for the entire student body. The school is located in Baltimore County. Lunch will be provided. If you are interested, please contact Aggie DiBacco-Miller, Professional School Counselor, at 410-887-7661. The school Fax number is 410-887-7662.

The Federation of Galaxy Explorers, volunteers are needed to assist in educating and inspiring youth in space related science and engineering by expanding the frontiers of science and technology. The mission of the Galaxy explorers is to educate, guide and prepare the next generation to accept the challenge of expanding humankind's presence in space. You can learn more about the program at www.foge.org. Volunteers will participate in after school activities with easy to understand educational materials that provide a hands-on understanding of space science, earth science, engineering and rocketry. Another theme, Space Citizenship, will address the role of government, power of citizens in a democracy, and the promise of space expressed in art, writing, history and business. Organized into local "Mission Teams" meeting on a monthly basis, materials, workbooks and web site support for instruction with hands-on activities are provided. Field trips and awards are part of the program encouraging self-esteem through achievement and recognition. For more information, please contact Morgan Bracken at mbracken@hst.nasa.govor 301-901-6051.