IFT: An Advocate for Science in Washington

While struggling through graduate school several years ago, I read a proverb that states: “The years slip by quickly, it’s the minutes that are long.” This certainly expresses my sentiment as I sit here, back at the University of Florida, writing the final quarterly report about the 1998–99 IFT Congressional Science Fellowship. The year indeed slipped by quickly, while many of the minutes during congressional briefings seemed to lengthen interminably. Overall, the year was enormously enlightenin…