He said the institute first sponsored a conference there a decade ago, and as interest from local organizations in several countries grew, the institute stepped up its activities.
"Water is such an important area for Canadians, I can only see the role of the institute growing in the future".
Meanwhile workers are trying to safeguard the institute's growing stock of 30,000 manuscripts.
Batlle, who had become a Colorado hero, took advantage of the nation's stability and growing economic prosperity to institute major reforms, including increasing state intervention in economic matters.
For starters, the Museum of Modern Art recently acquired the fashionable objet d'art, along with the app that goes with it, adding it to the institute's growing collection of contemporary design products.
When the population was growing too fast it instituted a "two is enough" campaign.
Eventually I'd like the gallery to grow into an institute of contemporary art, and show major work by international artists.
During his tenure as chief executive, the institute grew rapidly, opened a new research site in Florida, and broadened its role from basic research to also doing drug discovery, in some cases in collaborations with pharmaceutical companies.
In a memoir published last year ("The Art and Politics of Science," Norton), Dr. Varmus recalled a confrontation he had in 1997 with Vice President Al Gore, who was demanding that the budget of the cancer institute grow at twice the rate allowed for the N.I.H. as a whole.
The researchers hired so far work in fields such as quantum gravity, string theory, the foundations of quantum theory, and quantum information theory, and as the institute grows, so too will the number of fields studied.
