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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22, 2000
Tour of Curie Exhibit & Reception
J. Wayne Stark University Center Galleries, Texas AdM University
Welcome & Introductions
Allison Rice-Ficht, Ph.D.
Interim Assistant Dean for Research & Professor College of Medicine
Texas A&M University System Health Science Center
Alan E. Waltar, Ph.D.
Professor & Head, Dept, of Nuclear Engineering
President, Eagle Alliance, Inc.
Remarks - Rudder Conference Center
Dr. Ronald G. Douglas,
Executive Vice President and Provost, Texas A&M University
Focus of Women in Discovery
Nancy Dickey, M.D.
Immediate Past President. American Medical Association
Professor, College of Medicine,
The Texas A&M University System Health Science Center
Curie Exhbit Video Presentation
Helene Langevin-Joliot, Ph. D.
(Granddaughter of Marie & Pierre Curie)
Director of Research Emeritus
National Center for Scientific Research, Paris, France
Nobel Laureate V 7 ideo Presentation
Rosalyn Sussman-Yalow, Ph.D.
1977 Nobel Prize in Medicine, Development of radioimmunoassay
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Shirley A. Jackson, Ph.D.
President, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Former Chair, US. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 2000
Morning Session - Rudder Theatre
Graduate Student Research Week Poster Display Rudder Exhibit Hal!
Continental Breakfast Rudder Theatre Lobby
Welcome
Ann B. Kier, Ph.D.
Professor & Head, Dept, of Veterinary Pathology, Texas A&M University
Heidi Hammel, Ph.D.
Senior Research Scientist
Space Science Institute - Connecticut
Hubble studies of Shoemaker-Levy 9 impact
Recognition of Student Award Recipients
K. Lee Peddicord, Ph.D., P.E.
Associate Vice Chancellor, The Texas A&M University System
Professor, Dept, of Nuclear Engineering, Texas A&M University
Sue Naylor, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Cellular & Structural Biology
University of Texas Health Science Center - San Antonio
Dir. of Informatics & Genomics of Chromosome 3 Human Genome Project
Bonnie J. Dunbar, Ph.D.
Astronaut, NASA
Concurrent Session — Student Forum — Rudder Auditorium
(Broadcast over KAMU Channel 18, Streaming Video)
Space: The Final Frontier
Host: Theresa Good, Ph.D., Department of Chemical Engineering
Guests: Bonnie J. Dunbar, Heidi B. Hammel and Mae C. Jemison
Space in the 21st Century
Host: Wendy Keeney-Kennicutt, Ph.D., Dept, of Chemistry
Guests: Bonnie J. Dunbar, Heidi B. Hammel and Mae C. Jemison
Awards Luncheon — George Bush Presidential Conference Center
(By Invitation)
Welcome
Alan E. Waltar, Ph.D.
Professor & Head, Dept, of Nuclear Engineering, Texas A&M University
President, Eagle Alliance, Inc.
Student Awards Presentation
K. Lee Peddicord, Ph.D., P.E.
Coordinator, Women in Discovery Educational Outreach
Associate Vice Chancellor, The Texas A&M University System
AFTERNOON SESSION Rudder Theatre
Welcome
Dorothy E. Shippen, Ph.D.
Assoc. Professor, Dept, of Biochemistry & Biophysics, Texas A&M University
Carol Nacy, Ph.D.
President, Sequella Global Tuberculosis Foundation
Carol Gross, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology
University of California-San Francisco
Regulation of gene expression
Mae Jemison, M.D.
Physician and Chemical Engineer
Former NASA Astronaut, Host of the Discovery Channel
EVENING SESSION
George Bush Presidential Conference Center
Speakers Dinner (By Invitation)- Sponsored by COGEMA
Welcome
H. Joseph Newton, Ph.D.
Executive Associate Dean, College of Science, Texas A&M University
Introduction of COGEMA Video Presentation
Michael A. McMurphy
President & CEO, COGEMA, Inc.
COGEMA Video Presentation
Anne Lauvergeon
President & CEO. COGEMA
Symposium Video Presentation
Helene Langevin-Joliot
(Granddaughter of Marie & Pierre Curie)
Panel Discussions: The Future of Science
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WORLD
Page 14
THE BATTALION
Wednesday, March 21;
36 Sikhs killed in Clinton
Kashmir massacre presses
for peaa
SRINAGAR, India (AP) —Gunmen
rounded up and killed 36 Sikh villagers
in India’s disputed Kashmir state, police
said Tuesday, even as President Clinton
was beginning a visit to India.
Monday night’s massacre was the
first major attack on Kashmir’s small
Sikh community since separatist Mus
lims launched their insurgency 10 years
ago. Sikhs are considered a neutral mi
nority, but Indian officials earlier had
warned of violence by Muslim militants
hoping to draw attention to Kashmir dur
ing Clinton’s visit.
Both India and Pakistan claim the Hi
malayan territory and have fought two
wars over it.
The gunmen were not immediately
identified and no group claimed responsi
bility for the attack, police said Tuesday.
Clinton — who arrived Monday
evening in New Delhi, 400 miles to the
south, after a visit to Bangladesh — had
said that reducing tensions between In
dia and Pakistan was one of his objec
tives of the trip.
Many Kashmiris were hoping the
president’s visit would lead to a break
through in the long deadlock on the re
gion’s future.
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Clinton spokesperson Joe Lockhart expressed outrage over the killings, say
ing in a statement that “our most profound sympathies go out to the victims of this
brutal massacre.”
The attackers entered the village of Chati Singhpura Mattan after dark and
forced the residents from their homes, police officials said on customary condi
tion of anonymity.
Israel withdraws
from part ofWest Bank
BEITUNIA, West Bank (AP) — Is
rael began withdraw ing troops from 6.1
percent of the West Bank on Tuesday as
part of a land-for-security deal that would
give the Palestinians control over 41 per
cent of the disputed territory.
At this army base near the West Bank
city of Ramallah, Israeli army officers
shook hands with Palestinian security of
ficers in a ceremony marking the land
transfer. Similar ceremonies were to take
place near the West Bank cities of He
bron and Nablus.
Israeli officials gave the Palestinians
five copies of the maps outlining the area
being transferred. Soldiers placed rocks
marking the new boundary, and Pales
tinian security officials waited at a near
by gas station, ready to enter the area.
The transfer gives the Palestinians
populated swaths of land bordering cities
almost entirely under Palestinian control,
giving Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat
more of the contiguity he needs for a state.
In 5.1 percent of the West Bank being
transferred, the Palestinians were already
in charge of civilian institutions but were
also being given security control. The
rest of the West Bank was going from full
Israeli control to full Palestinian control.
The Palestinians had demanded sub
urbs of Jerusalem, claimed by both sides
as their capital, but settled on the villages
Mideast p ace talks
Bolling Air Force Base is host to
Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. The
base provides the necessary
security and seclusion, while being
just a few miles from downtown
Washington. Only helicopters can
land at the base.
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after five weeks of deadlock. Many of
the areas to be handed over are near but
do not border Jerusalem.
The withdrawal came just hours after
two shootings Monday night killed a
Palestinian woman and injured her hus
band and three Israelis.
The Israelis were injured, one of them
seriously, after gunmen in a car opened
fire on them as they were delivering hol
iday baskets for the Jewish festival of
Purim to soldiers near Hebron.
NEW DELHI, India (AP)
Pleading for restraint, PresidentO;
ton won India’s assurance Tuesi
that “there is no threat of war"#:
Pakistan despite crackling let®
between the two countries and in
bloodshed in Kashmir. But India:
jected Clinton's call to slow its nude
weapons program.
The president was pressing:
case for stronger ties with Indian:
address before a joint session offi
liament, his last appointment
capital before heading into:
reaches of this vast land.
“We have neglected this re
ship for more than two decades,”Or
ton said after talks w ith Indian Pm
Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. “Itisti
important to ever fall into disrep:
again.” India aligned itself with the v
\ iet Union during the Cold Want;
the 1 Inked States tilted toward Pakk
The president joined Vajpayee
denouncing the massacre of dozen;
Sikhs in Kashmir and promised
press the point to Pakistani leaders-
as he has to India — that violence
not the solution to their dispute ov
the Himalayan territory.
Although India is one of the poc
est countries in the world, Clinton*
not exposed to the gritty side ofNci
Delhi. Looking out from his armor:,
limousine, he saw instead a city oftret
lined boulevards mid lush gardens^
fountains, gated mansions andcolo»
palaces. He also stopped to pay
spects and drop rose petals at a mart:
memorial to Mohandas Gandhi. Ik
res ered pacifist mid freedom leader.
Leaving New Delhi. Clinton k
gins three days of sightseeing. Heu
tour the Taj Mahal, go tiger watchk
in a game preserve and perhaps ni
an elephant at a historic palace.
Vajpayee called the killing of40v
lagers in Kashmir an act of “etfc
cleansing” and said, “We have tk
means and the will to eliminate tl
menace.” India blamed tlie massacre?
Pakistani-backed separatist organs
tions; those gmaps denied tnvt^vetnil
Clinton said he would urge mr
tars -ruled Pakistan to respect the liis
of control that separates the portions/
Kashmir held by India and Pakistan,
shosv restraint and to “stand against
olence, restore the dialogue.”
Pakistan has asked the
States to try' to help settle the Kasim
dispute but India has rejected outsie:
mediation. In Islamabad, Pakisti
Foreign Minister Abdul Sattarsaidhi
hoped Clinton could use his‘1
touch” to find a peaceful resolution.
Clinton expressed reluctanci
about getting deeply involved.”]
not going to be dragged into some
thing that, first of all, that India does
n’t want us to he part of. And second'
ly, that I got dragged into
deliberate dels of violence. I just don't
think that’s right.”
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