a. Burnham Steps Down as Raytheon CEO; Swanson to be Named Chief Executive Officer

b. Lockheed Martin Receives Seventh Contract to Provide Components for Japan's F-2 Fighter

c. Alcatel Wins US$109 Million Network Expansion in Costa Rica

d. Perot Systems Signs Six-Year, $14.9 Million Information Technology Outsourcing Contract With Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

e. Raytheon Awarded $8 Million DARPA Contract to Develop Key Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Technology for Next Generation Imagery

f. Zyvex Introduces S100 Nanomanipulator System

g. FDA Approves Alcon's Newest Antibiotic, VIGAMOX for Adults and Children

h. Permeo Technologies Expands Management Team

i. Texas Instruments Engineer Wins EDN's "2002 Innovator of the Year" Award; Products Also Recognized

a. Steven Idell Named Vice President for Research at UT Health Center at Tyler

b. Institute of Behavioral Research Receives $3.25 million grant from National Institute on Drug Abuse

c. UT Tyler Nursing Program to Expand Online Outreach

d. UNT System Continues Plans for a Public Law School

e. TI Researcher Named To Chair Electrical Engineering Department At SMU School Of Engineering

f. SMU Names New Chair For Department Of Environmental And Civil Engineering

g. Texas Tech School of Nursing Names Geriatric Endowed Professor

h. UT-Houston's Castro Named Advisor on Health Risks of Space Flight

i. Texas Tech University Associate Dean Named to State Committee

j. UTD Criminal Justice Professor Named To OPEN Board

k. Associate Dean Inducted into San Antonio Women's Hall of Fame

l. New Drugs Restore Immune Response Blocked by Hepatitis C Virus in Human Cell

m. Cholesterol-lowering Drugs Shown to Decrease Predictor of Alzheimer's Disease

n. Study Finds Stem Cells Safe and Useful in Treating End-Stage Heart Failure

o. Rice Uses Buckyballs to Reinvent 'Antibiotic of Last Resort'

a. China: Challenges & Opportunities: April 27

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

c. Fire and Ice: Social Aggression Among Girls: April 30

d. Solving the Mystery of SARS: An Issue of Public Health: April 30

e. SARS: Nature-Made Bioterriorism: May 15

f. TEXMEMS V at UTA: May 6

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

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

SARS news

a. Space Shuttle Program Manager Decides to Leave Post

b. MIT Lab Works to Mimic Spider Silk

c. WHO and UNICEF Call for Increased Effort to Roll Back Malaria

a. WHO Extends its SARS-related Travel Advice to Beijing and Shanxi Province in China and to Toronto, Canada

b. SARS Deaths in Philippines, Asia Health Chiefs Meet

c. China Widens SARS Quarantine

d. India Seeks to Stop SARS Leaving Deadly Trail

a. DHS Adding Cameras to Borders

b. Homeland Security and DOE Deliver Refurbished Radiological Detection Equipment

c. Four UTD Faculty Members Win $625,000 for Face Recognition Research Efforts

d. Task Force Addresses UH Homeland Security Efforts

e. Event - Terror & Technology Online: May 12-15