Spring Break
Professor Moshe Kam, of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, was elected to serve as Vice President for Educational Activities and Chair of the Educational Activities Board (EAB). He thus serves as a member of the IEEE Board of Directors and the Executive Committee.
A new solution to the pesky problem may come from the human body. It has always been know that mosquitoes are attracted to some people more than others. It was assumed that people who were avoided by mosquitoes just lacked the attractive chemicals. Scientists are now finding that the opposite maybe true.
The $3 billion Cassini-Huygens project and the $330 million Deep Impact mission both made headlines last week ("NASA initiatives, missions launched", The Triangle, Jan. 14, p??). Cassini-Huygens is an internationally funded project to explore Saturn and its moon Titan, while Deep Impact is a NASA mission trying to blow a hole into the Comet Tempel and study the debris that is scattered around.
If you've lived on earth for the past 15 years, there's a good chance that you've heard of the Hubble Space Telescope. The telescope was originally put in orbit in 1991 with a projected lifespan of 15 years. The White House is purportedly eliminating funding for the Hubble in its 2006 budget in a move to focus taxpayer money on NASA's "Moon, Mars, and Beyond" agenda.
Because The Triangle is available over the Internet and, apparently, Google loves us, I get a lot of crazy e-mail from all around the world. Most of it is from teenagers demanding that I either stop writing or engage in some terribly unappealing activity. A smaller portion takes the form of elaborate, 10,000-word dissertations on the flaws of my articles, and don't think that UFO enthusiasts are above picking on grammar and punctuation.
