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The MALS Alumni Association held its annual luncheon, presentation and meeting on July 7 in the Hanover Inn. Speaking to the gathering of MALS alumni, faculty and current students was professor Marcelo Gleiser. Gleiser is the Appleton Professor of Natural Philosophy and professor of physics and astronomy at Dartmouth, as well as an award-winning author of The Prophet andthe Astronomer and The Dancing Universe. Alumni present for the stimulating talk and discussion included Trish Brown (MALS '79), Peter Blodgett '74 (MALS '82), Frank Anthony (MALS '84), Charlet Davenport (MALS '84), Lois Kerr (MALS '84), Margaret Richard (MALS '85), Joan Kersey (MALS '96), Nance Silliman '95 (MALS '96), Claire Brown (MALS '97), Sharon Greene (MALS '97), Roland Adams (MALS '98), Sylvia Langford (MALS '98), Judy Chypre (MALS '99), Maggie Montgomery (MALS '99), Melinda Evans (MALS '02), Michelle Slater (MALS '02) and Ben Bolger (MALS 'O4). One of the subjects at the annual meeting, which followed the program, was how to better involve alumni from the early years of the MALS program in alumni activities. If you have any ideas on this, or if you are one of these alumni, please let us know.

Robert L, Joyner (physiology 98) was recently given tenure at Salisbury University in Salisbury, New York. Robert is teaching in the health sciences division of the Richard A. Henson School of Science and Technology.

When we last heard from Allan Weatherwax (physics '95), his scientific work had been recognized with the naming of the Weatherwax glacier in Antarctica. For the past two years Allan has been a professor of physics at Siena College in Loudonville, New York. Now he has been awarded a $813,000 federal grant to study solar radiation. He will monitor instruments in Greenland, Canada, and at the South Pole to collect data on solar storms and their effect on the earths atmosphere. The charged particles that are spewed from the storms help create the aurora borealis, but they also have the potential to seriously interfere with satellite communications. The purpose of the study is to better predict when solar storms will occur and to devise ways to mitigate the impact on earthly technology. Allan will work on the project with a pair of Siena students as well as with the assistance of the New Jersey Institute of Technology and the University of Maryland.

Now I have some sad news to report. HIV/AIDS advocate Charles E. Clifton (MALS'95) died unexpectedly on August 15, in Chicago. At the time of his death, Charles was the executive director of the Test Positive Aware Network (TPAN) and editor of the na- tional HIV/AIDS treatment journals PositivelyAware and Positively Aware en Espanol. He joined the TPAN staff in 1995 and earned an M.A. degree from the University of Chicago in 2002.

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