Brian Holloway Appointed MRS/OSA Congressional Fellow for 1997-98
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Brian Holloway Appointed MRS/OSA Congressional Fellow for 1997-98 Brian Holloway of Stanford University is the recent recipient of the 1997-1998 MRS/OSA Congressional Science and Engineering Fellowship. As a precursor to a career involving public service and technology transfer, he will work for one year in a Washington congressional office. "I hope to learn how scientific policy is formulated in order to someday focus on basic scientific-research funding," said Holloway. The goal of the fellowship is to promote communication between Congress and the science and engineering community. Fellows serve with individual members of Congress, committees, or support agencies such as the Congressional Budget Office and the Congressional Research Service. According to MRS Public Affairs ComBrian Holloway mittee Chair Julia Phillips, the program has greatly benefitted the Society. "The Fellows are extremely energetic and productive. For example Kelly Kirkpatrick, the first waivers. "Kelly has also provided MRS MRS/OSA Fellow, has influenced legisla- members with valuable insight into the legtion such as the recently proposed tax on islative process through her efforts to waived graduate-student tuition." At press improve the MRS Public Affairs homepage time for this issue of MRS Bulletin, the bill as well as her efforts on pubic-affairs had passed through Congress, retaining issues," said Phillips. section 117d of the Internal Revenue Code. Holloway will start with a two-week This segment of law ensures graduateorientation at the American Association students' continued exemption from tax for the Advancement of Science, which responsibility on the value of tuition coordinates the fellowship. "I hope to
bring my youthful enthusiasm and my wide variety of scientific interests to the position," he said. Having recently completed his PhD degree in mechanical engineering with a minor in materials science and engineering, Holloway is investigating a congressional office where he feels his services would be most helpful. He plans to make a decision in late September or early October. Kirkpatrick served Senator Joseph I. Lieberman (D-CT) during her fellowship (see MRS Bulletin, Vol. XX, No. 8, p. 64). The 1996-1997 Fellow, Michal Freedhoff, worked for U.S. Congressional Representative Edward J. Markey (D-MA). (For more information on Freedhoff's fellowship, see MRS Bulletin, Vol. 21, No. 10, p. 74; and MRS Bulletin, Vol. 21, No. 11, p. 74.) "I want to thank MRS and OSA for providing me with this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity," Holloway said. Holloway's dissertation work involved studying the chemical bonding present in carbon nitride thin films in order to determine the chemical processes occurring during film deposition. He received a BS degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Florida. During his undergraduate years, Holloway coowned and operated a commercial fishing company.
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