a. Raytheon Awarded $79 Million NASA Contract to Support Astronaut Training

b. Telecom Egypt Selects Nortel Networks to Expand National Telecommunications Network

c. EDS Names New Executive Management

d. Perot Systems Announces Technology Services Contract With Tufts-New England Medical Center

e. Merkafon Teleperformance Comes to Edinburg

a. Three University Systems Unite with Houston Endowment to Strengthen Teacher Education

b.Texas Tech Researchers Receive $2 Million to Continue Environment Work

c. Dunn Foundation to Give UH $500,000 for Biomedical Engineering Endowment

d. UNTHSC To Use DNA Technology to Identify Missing Persons

e. Study of Monkey Species that Fights Off AIDS May Lead to New Treatments for Humans

f. Rice Professor Wins White House Mentoring Award

g. UT Tyler Principal Institute Announces Partnership with TISD

h. UTD Economist Berg Wins Fulbright Grant to Study Demographic Challenges in Germany

a. CSE@UTA to Host International Pervasive Computing Conference: March 23-26

b. 2003 Transportation Security Administration Conference: Innovative Technologies in Maritime Security: March 24-27

c. West Texas Economic Development Summit: March 25

d. Large Area Electronics: March 25

e. OSS Management: March 26

f. Texas Tech To Sponsor Regional Psychology Conference: March 28-29

g. Homeland Security Presentation: DFW Homeland Security Alliance: March 31

h. Highly Ordered Carbon Nanotube Arrays: Electronic and IR Properties and Applications: April 1

i. Immigration Scholar to Give Lecture At SMU: April 7

j. From Differentiation to Industry Cooperation: What is Next?: April 8

k. It's a Small World: April 8

l. Cells Can Form the Basis For A Quantum Computer: April 9

m. New Ideas On The Line: Broad Implications from Telecom Law in Tech's Post-Bubble World: April 11

n. How to Get Your Technology Startup Business Launched: April 14

o. The 17th Annual Communications Technology Symposium: April 15

p. Wireless MEMS for Harsh Environments: April 17

q. TechTrends 2003: April 22-24

r. Supply Chain Management: Value Management with Key Performance Indicators (KPI): April 29

s. TEXMEMS V at UTA: May 6

t. Accounting and Finance for Non-Financial Managers -- Getting on Top of the Numbers Game: May 7-8

u. The Fourth Joint Meeting of Chinese Physicists Worldwide: July 7-10

a. U.S. Nanotech Funding Expected to Hit $1 Billion

b. Chris Patten Elected Next Chancellor of the University of Oxford

c. Quick Action By Astronomers Leads to New Insights on Mysterious Gamma-Ray Bursts

a. Operation Liberty Shield Is on Full Alert

b. HHS Announces Bioterrorism Aid for States

c. HHS to Test Use of Handheld Device Network for Transmitting Urgent Information About Biological Agents to Clinicians

d. Event -- Homeland Security Presentation: DFW Homeland Security Alliance: March 31

g. Event -- Homeland Defense Training Conference Forecast & Budget Outlook, Grants Workshop: April 3