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Wednesday, March 5, 2003
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Don’t miss out on the rest of the
Women In Time week of programming!
For complete program details, check online at
www.tamu.edu/womenintime
on exhibit
February 28 - March 7
Intended for All: 125 Years of Women at A&M - Exhibit details
achievements & contributions of women from 1 876 - present. (Cushing Library)
Images of Achievement Part I: Women in Music Through Time
Featuring books & recordings from notable women composers & performers.
(Library Annex)
Images of Achievement Part II: Keeping Time - Collages, artwork
and projects from “Women In Music”, classes. (4th Floor, Academic Bldg.)
Visible Work, Invisible Women - Photo Essay by Palagummi Sainath
captures significant contributions made by rural women in India and transcends
national borders. (Langford Architecture Bldg., Gallery A120)
daily
March 3 - March 7
Live Music - Various Performances. (12-1:00pm. Rudder Fountain)
Wednesday 3/5
How Far Have We Come and Where Are We Headed: How The
Climate for Women At Texas A&M Has Changed In the Last
Decade - Panel Discussion. (2:30-4:30pm, Library 204E)
thursday 3/6
Passive Politics: Women as Cultural Workers - Presentation of the
overview of the life’s work of Elizabeth Farrell, the originator of special education
in the US. (1-2:30pm, 504 Rudder)
friday 3/7
Women in Higher Education with Children: Negotiating
Personal & Professional Lives - Interactive presentation on the findings
of Dr. Sarah Marshall’s study on women in higher ed with children. Discuss
practical applications on balancing work and home. (10-11:30am, 501 Rudder)
How Working Couples Mutually Support Career Success - Panel
Discussion with working couples fromTAMU. (12-1:30pm, 501 Rudder)
How Dads Develop Women Leaders - Panel Discussion with tamu
women leaders and experts familiar with this field. (2-3:30pm, 501 Rudder)
Peaceful protestors
KRT CAMPUS
Peace activist Alice Jarvis, 93, attends a rally
Tuesday at the Boca Raton campus of Florida
Atlantic University to protest a war
Iraq. Jarvis also spoke at the rally.
Texas to fund cow genome projec
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
state of Texas has pledged $10
million for research on sequenc
ing the genetic makeup of cattle,
the National Institutes of Health
announced Tuesday. Another $ 15
million is needed to secure the
sequencing in
u
project.
The Cow Genome Project,
touted as having possible benefits
for biology and agriculture, will
cost $50 million total.
The National Human Genome
Research Institute, part of the
NIH, plans to pay half the c6st if
$25 million is raised. Texas
would pay out their portion over
three years.
The sequencing — essen
tially documenting each of the
billion pairs of genes in cattle
DNA —. will be done by
researchers at Baylor College
of Medicine in Houston and
Texas A&M University.
Researchers are hoping the
money can be raised in time to
start the
September.
Sequencing of the cow
genome will allow researchers to
identify functions
qf the cattle genes.
The informa
tion could assist
producers in selec
tively breeding cat
tle for tenderness
and marbling and
making the ani
mals more disease-
resistant and less
reliant on antibi
otics. Producers
also could use it to
birth larger, health
ier litters, scientists
have said.
Institute, said in a statement.
Texas legislators are now
session, struggling with a
lion shortfall that is forcing
sideration of
We hope others...
will lend their
support to this
pioneering
endeavor.
— Dr. Francis Collins,
National Human Genome
Institute director
“We hope others in the public
and private sectors will follow the
lead of Texas and lend their sup
port to this pioneering endeavor,”
Dr. Francis Collins, director of
the National Human Genome
in state serve
The governor I
not identified
funding sc
but officials
said the n
could come
the educaii
budget or
Department
Econoi
Development.
The
Genome
said the hot
genome is si®
in size to genomes of humans
other mammals, with an estir
ed 3 billion pairs.
Texas A&M participated
mapping to provide a rough t
line of the cattle genome last);
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