NOVEMBER 16, 2001

VOLUME 31, NUMBER 8

• Oceanographer Sylvia Earle to give lecture on "Sustainable Seas"
  
  
• Something old, something new
  Madrigal Banquet, Illumination will help set the mood for the holidays
  
  
• Additional funding expected to benefit Space Flight Center at Wallops Island
  
  
• President to address classified, hourly staff
  

• NEWS AND NOTES
  • Jazz vocalist Rene Marie to perform in concert with John Toomey Trio Nov. 19
  • "War on Terrorism" is topic for national town meeting
  • Flu shots available at Student Health Center
  • Open enrollment for Flexible Reimbursement Accounts ends Nov. 30
  • BOV's Mary Haddad named Woman of the Year
  • "Funny Games" explores culture of media violence
  • Workshop offers guidelines for developing short-term study abroad programs
  • Physics chapter honored
  
  
• CALENDAR
  
  
• NEWSMAKERS
  
  
• PROFACTS
  
  
• FROM THE EDGE
  
  

• Number on the rise among employees who telework, profs' survey finds
  
  
• Physicists' experiment sheds light on proton spin mystery
  
  
• Schafran awarded supplemental funding for research on TBT removal from waste water
  
  
• Benefactor George M. Kaufman dies
  
  
• New book offers groundbreaking study of Ken Burns, America's premier documentary filmmaker
  
  
• University Gallery to present three student thesis shows
  
  
• Book on FDR by former President Rollins reissued with new introduction
  
  
• Former student credited for help in Pentagon rescue effort
  
  
• Four alums elected to seats in General Assembly
  
  
• Educational aid deadline is Dec. 3