A banner from Coastal Studies for Girls, a science and leadership school, returned on November 7 from a trip into space on NASA's shuttle Discovery.

Paratherm has also hired Rich Clements as Sales Manager to oversee the current sales staff of technical representatives. He has twenty years of executive level sales management experience and has held positions as Product Director, Plant Manager and Plant Engineer.

Replacement thermal conductivity detectors (TCDs) for the Varian 3800 gas chromatograph (GC) are now available from GOW-MAC Instrument Company.

Jim Oetinger has been appointed Director of Technology at Paratherm. Formerly the head of sales and technical functions, he now focuses on solving heat transfer problems and system issues from customers.

Construction of the Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR), a new $1.2 billion particle accelerator, will begin in the German city of Darmstadt as part of a project by the German Society for Heavy Ion Research (GSI).

CSA Corporate Sustaining Member Linde Cryogenics sold their packaged gas business to Airgas Inc. at the close of business on June 30, 2007.

HYPRES, Inc. has made plans to build an all-digital receiver for SELEX Communications as part of their software defined radio.

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign plans to install Field Turf in their baseball facilities for the 2008 season.

A contract has been finalized between CSA Corporate Sustaining Member Air Liquide and Cryogenmash, a manufacturer of transport tankers.

CryoCath Technologies, Inc. recently announced a decision to sell their surgical portfolio to ATS Medical.

A brief ceremony in Geneva on November 7, 2007 marked the latest milestone for CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's most powerful particle accelerator.

Two scientists, Elena Rozhkova and Elena Shevchenko, have joined Argonne National Laboratory's Center for Nanoscale Materials.

American Superconductor Corporation and TECO-Westinghouse Motor Company announced the formation of a research joint venture to develop high temperature superconductor (HTS) and related technologies for high-power, direct drive wind generators for offshore wind farms.

Det Norske Veritas (DNV) has granted FIBA Technologies, Inc. approval of Manufacturer Certificate No. T-1142, which approves FIBA for the manufacturing of seamless gas bottles and pressure vessels of Class I and II. FIBA is one of only four companies in the world to be granted this approval.

Carl T. Johnson, former president of The Compressed Gas Association, has been nominated by President George W. Bush to be Administrator of the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration at the Department of Transportation.

CSA Technical Director James Fesmire was recently promoted to the position of Senior Principal Investigator at the NASA Kennedy Cryogenics Test Laboratory.