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Going green seems to be on many peoples minds these days. Steve Pacala was featured in a recent Time article about the work he is doing on reducing carbon dioxide emissions. Steve is codirector of the Carbon Mitigation Initiative at Princeton. Subsequently, Thomas Friedman's New York Times Sunday magazine cover story "The Power of Green" cited Steves work as well as Jeff Immelt and his green initiatives at GE.

Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue appointed Lesa Walden-Young to the advisory council to the Office of Women's Health in Georgia. Lesa is director of Live Healthy Georgia at the Department of Human Resources. Previously she served as a consultant for the Health Media Institute and the Louisiana Campaign for Tobacco-Free Living. She has 2 o years of experience in the development and production of entertainment, health and medical programs for television, video, theater, radio and print. She serves on the board of the Georgia Rural Health Association. Lesa received her M.D. from Duke University.

Jeff Weeks was awarded the 2007 Conant prize by the American Mathematics Society for his article The Poincare Dodecahedral Space and the Mystery of the Missing Fluctuations" (Notices, June/July 2004). In this article, together with an earlier one, "Measuring the Shape of the Universe" (Notices, December 1998), co-authored with Neil Cornish, Weeks explains how extremely sensitive measurements of microwave radiation across the sky provide information about the origins and shape of the universe. Jeff professes to splitting his time between "puzzling over the microwave background and writing Macintosh versions of his geometry and topology software."

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