Monday, August 14, 2000
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| 3:00 p.m. U.S. Eastern Time |
Library Web Pages -- A chat, "Personalizing Library Web Pages," with panelists John E. Ulmschneider, executive director of the Virginia Commonwealth University libraries; Eric Lease Morgan, network-technologies-development librarian at North Carolina State University; and Paul T. Adalian, Jr., assistant dean for information & instruction at California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo.
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Food and Drug Administration -- An interview with Jane E. Henney, commissioner of the F.D.A. and former vice president for health sciences at the University of New Mexico. She will discuss risk management, her former academic and governmental work, and several
issues related to health and the pharmaceutical industry.
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| 10:00 p.m. U.S. Eastern Time |
Great White Sharks -- A chat with two shark experts: Barry Bruce, a research scientist at the Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Research Organization's division of marine research, and George H. Burgess, coordinator of museum operations at the Florida Museum of Natural History, part of the University of Florida.
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Tuesday, August 15, 2000
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| 11:00 a.m. U.S. Eastern Time |
Internet Satire -- A chat with Tomny Hendra, author of the Gigawit Dictionary of the E-nglish Language, a collection of terms that satirize the Internet.
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| 8:00 p.m. U.S. Eastern Time |
Genetics -- A prerecorded Webcast, "From Mad Cows to 'Psi-chotic' Yeast: A New Paradigm In Genetics," on the implications of research done on yeast organisms for misfolded proteins in humans. Susan Lindquist, professor of medical science in the department of molecular genetics and cell biology at the University of Chicago and an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, will discuss the findings.
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Wednesday, August 16, 2000
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| 7:00 a.m. U.S. Eastern Time |
Genetics -- A prerecorded Webcast, "From Mad Cows to 'Psi-chotic' Yeast: A New Paradigm In
Genetics," on the implications of research done on yeast organisms for misfolded proteins in humans. Susan Lindquist, professor of medical science in the department of molecular genetics and cell biology at the University of Chicago and an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, will discuss the findings. The program will air every four hours with the first show at 7 a.m. and the last show at 7 p.m. Eastern.
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| 10:00 p.m. U.S. Eastern Time |
Prehistoric Sharks -- A chat with the shark expert Richard Lund, professor in the department of biology and director of the program in environmental studies at Adelphi University. Since 1969 he has been excavating the fossil fishes, including sharks, imbedded in the limestone of Bear Gulch in Montana.
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