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Date: May 19, 1999

Astronaut to Speak as Engineering School Celebrates 50 Years of Guggenheim Support of Aeronautics and Space Research

Princeton, N.J.–Astronaut Greg Linteris will be one of the featured speakers at "Guggenheim’s Vision of Aeronautics: 50 Years of Guggenheim Support" on Friday, May 28. The program, sponsored by the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, will highlight the impact Guggenheim Fellowships have had on Princeton University and the engineering field.

The program will take place in Bowen Hall Auditorium at the Princeton Materials Institute. Refreshments will be served at 3 p.m. The talks are open to the public.

Linteris, who earned his 1979 BSE and 1990 PhD at Princeton, will discuss his space shuttle missions where he was responsible for igniting on-board fires during combustion research. His talk, "Fire in Space," will take place from 4 to 4:30 pm. Other featured speakers include:

• Thomas Brzustowski, president of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. Brzustowski, who received his 1991 PhD from Princeton, will speak on "Guggenheim, Forrestal, and the Golden Age," 2 to 2:30 p.m.

• Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Edgar Choueiri, who recieved his Princeton PhD in 1991. Choueiri will speak on "Princeton in Spaceflight: The Guggenheim Legacy," 2:30 to 3 p.m.

• Jerry Grey, director of Aerospace and Science Policy for the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Grey, who teaches a popular course on Space Policy at Princeton, will speak on "Space Propulsion: The Next 50 Years," 3:30 to 4 p.m.

• Jean-Luc Boulnois, president and CEO of SOMOTEC and Interactive Consulting, Inc. Boulnois, a 1975 Princeton PhD, will speak on "The Role of Aerospace Education in High Technology Entrepreneurship," 4:30 to 5 p.m.

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