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March 7, 2007

Seminars this Wednesday & Thursday

Title #1: "NASA Genesis Mission"  (Wednesday @ 4pm)
            by Russ Palma 

Title #2
: "Solitons"  (Thursday @ 4pm)
            by Jose Martinez 

Title #3: "Boat on Sulfur Hexafluoride"  (Thursday @ 4pm)
            by Mark Mason

Place: Science Room 334

All students and faculty are welcome to attend our seminars.  
Refreshments will be served. 
 

Spring Career Day  
   
Career Services Department wishes to extend an invitation to you and to your students to attend the upcoming Spring Career Day scheduled for Wednesday, March 7, 2007, from 1:00 - 4:00 p.m. in the Grand Ballroom. Over 55 companies have already registered to attend! If you would like to view a list of the companies who have registered to attend the Spring Career Day, please follow the steps listed below:

Go to www.monstertrak.com
Enter Student/Alumni Username: careerdays (lower case)
Enter Student/Alumni Password: sfasu (lower case)  
Click: Go Choose: Career Fairs  
Select Event: Career Day/Teacher Job Fair  
 
If you have any questions, please call 936-468-3305.  



Scholarships and Fellowships
  
TCU REU 
http://www.phys.tcu.edu/REU/index.html

Women in Physics
http://www.womeninphysics.org
 
NSF REU Program
http://www.baylor.edu/casper/index.php?id=20535 
 
DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellowship
http://www.krellinst.org/csgf

REU at UNT 
http://www.phys.unt.edu/REU  
  
Summer Undergraduate Research Focus 
http://www.sci.tamucc.edu/surf/ 
http://www.mse.gatech.edu/surf.html 
 
REU in Biostatistics
http://www.stat.ncsu.edu/sibs/SIBSbrochure_2007.pdf  
 
Summer Research at Georgia Institute of Technology
http://www.sure.gatech.edu  
 
REU in Las Vegas
http://www.physics.unlv.edu:80/reu/ 


The Fun Stuff  
   
New Horizons: Io
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/gallery/missionPhotos/pages/030107.html 

New Zealand News
http://tinyurl.com/yt6jvz 

SETI Finally Finds Something   
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/21/2326240 
 
Steam Powered Robots 
http://observe.phy.sfasu.edu/~ast305/Silver/steamrobots.flv

Lunar Eclipse 
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2007/12feb_lunareclipse.htm?list184210 
 
Movie: LED pong in 3D 
http://www.jamesclar.com/product/2005/3dcubewhite/index.html 
  
Locked Out of Your Car?
http://www.aolvideoblog.com/2007/02/06/locked-out-of-your-car/ 

Movie: Grape Plasma Microwave Fireball 
http://www.break.com/index/grape_plasma_microwave_fireball.html  
http://c3po.barnesos.net/homepage/lpl/grapeplasma/ 
 
Movie: Excellent Size Comparison of Planets  
http://video.google.com:80/videoplay?docid=-3974466981713172831  
 
Movie: Ship floats on nothing 
http://www.glumbert.com:80/media/float  
  
Movie: An Orbcomm communication satellite passes in front of the Moon  
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2007/23jan_ltps.htm?list184210 
 
Google Patents 
http://www.google.com/patents   
 
FLYING-MACHINE OLTVILLE WRIGHT
http://www.google.com/patents?id=h5NWAAAAEBAJ&pg=PP1#PPP1,M1  
 
Rocket Movies at the Bottom
http://public.blueorigin.com:80/index.html 
 

 


 
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Clear skies,
Dan Bruton
astro@sfasu.edu

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