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March 17,1999
Former Sen. Mitchell
to give Cohen Lecture
George J. Mitchell, former U.S.
Senate majority leader
from Maine, who was
President Clinton's envoy to the peace talks in
Northern Ireland, will
give the 13th annual
Cohen Lecture on Tuesday, March 30.
The free public talk,
titled "Towards Peace in
Northern Ireland," will
be held at 8:15 p.m. in
Baker Hall of the
Zoellner Arts Center.
Mitchell was scheduled today
(March 17) to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom from
President Clinton for bringing
about the "Good Friday agreement" last year in Northern Ireland.
White House press secretary
Joe Lockhart said Mitchell "has
helped the people of Northern
Ireland closer to lasting peace
than they have been in 30 years
of sectarian conflict."
The accord was approved by
the governments of Ireland and
the United Kingdom, by the political parties of Northern Ireland, and by voters in Ireland.
Mitchell made news again several weeks ago when an ethics
panel he led released a report
calling on the International
Olympic Committee to change its
system of appointing members,
its spending policies, its rules
governing bid cities, and its international status.
During his tenure as a U.S.
Senator, from 1980 to 1994,
Mitchell was voted "most respected member" of the chamber
six consecutive years. He served
on the Finance, Veterans Affairs,
and Environment and Public
Works Committees. He was instrumental in the passage of the
Americans with Disabilities Act,
led the successful reauthorization of the Clean Air Act, and
supported ratification of the
North American Free Trade
Agreement and creation of the
World Trade Organization.
After leaving the Senate,
Mitchell worked as a lawyer in
Washington. He has served as a
director of Walt Disney Co. and
Xerox, as chairman of the International Crisis Group, and as
chairman of the National Health
Care Commission.
Mitchell has written three
books: Men of Zeal (co-written
with William Cohen, U.S. Secretary of Defense), World on Fire,
and Not For America Alone: The
Triumph of Democracy and the
Fall of Communism.
The Cohen International Relations Lecture Series is funded
by an endowment from Bernard
L. Cohen '36 and his wife, Bertha Finkelstein Cohen, a 1937
Moravian College graduate, to
increase understanding of international affairs and to promote
world peace.
Young scientists have their day
More than 300 students from 26
middle schools and high schools
in the Lehigh Valley area participated in the sixth annual Lehigh
Valley Science and Engineering
Fair on Saturday, March 13. The
students presented projects on
issues related to biochemistry,
earth and space, medicine and
health, and zoology, among others.
"It is a joy to provide a forum
for these students at which they
can excel intellectually," said
Henry Odi, assistant provost.
"It is very exciting to see the intellectually sound projects these
students were able to design."
The day-long festivities began
at 8 a.m. when students set up
their projects in the Rauch Field
House. During the day, the students joined interactive science
and engineering workshops
throughout the campus, including dissecting a frog on-line;
learning about the secrets of
television technology, satellites,
and blue screens; and building a
mountain landscape out of paper
and experimenting with water to
show the effects of rain on the
environment.
"It was a great learning experience, and I thought the
workshops were lots of fun," said
Melanie Clark, a student at the
Springhouse Junior High School
in the Parkland School District,
whose project dealt with
whether violent films cause children to act violently. Clark won
a second place prize for her
project.
The fair, said Odi, seeks to
promote mathematics, science
and engineering, and to motivate
middle and high school students
to pursue careers in these fields.
"I think this is the best fair
out of all of the ones I've been to,
and I've been to several. I'm really enjoying myself and learning a lot," said Robert Montgomery, a ninth grader at Easton's
Shawnee Intermediate School.
Montgomery's project, entitled
"Resonant Modes of A Linear
Coupled Cart System," won a
first place prize in physics.
"The fair has been wonderful.
Many of these students are just
extremely impressive. They are
very smart kids, and I want to
see all of them here at Lehigh in
a few years," said President Gregory Farrington, who served
as a judge in the competition.
Prizes were sponsored by the
Lehigh chapter of the Society of
Women Engineers.
-Phil Repash
Rob Upton
(Above) Robert Montgomery of Easton Area Middle
School explains his physics exhibit to Greg and
Jean Farrington.
(Left) Nathan Walker '97, restoration ecologist ■with
Munro Ecological Services of Harleysville, Pa.,
leads a workshop on watersheds at the Lehigh
Valley Science and Engineering Fair at Rauch
Fieldhouse.
Rob Upton
Freshman applications up 6 percent
More than 8,820 applications for the fall freshman
class have been received so far by the Admissions
Office, the most in school history.
The number is 6 percent greater than it was
last year. It marks the fourth straight year freshman applications have increased.
Lorna Hunter, dean of admissions and financial aid, said the increase this year stems, in part,
to increased recruitment in "outreach" areas such
as Colorado, California and the Pacific Northwest.
"We are doing more visits and more programs
in these areas," Hunter said. "We are also becoming more popular in our own area - Pennsylvania,
New York and New Jersey."
Recruitment publications have helped make
high school students more aware of Lehigh, Hunter
said.
She said campus visits by prospective students
were up 27 percent during the summer and up 30
percent during the fall.
The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that freshman applications are up in general nationally. The
University of Pennsylvania has seen a 7 percent
jump, while Penn State is up 1 percent.
Spring Scholars program
to kick off March 21
About 150 high school students from across
the United States - among the most qualified in their class scholastically - will visit
Lehigh during the annual Spring Scholars
program beginning Sunday, March 21.
"The program is designed to encourage the
students to matriculate to Lehigh," said Jason Honsel, associate director in the office
of admissions, which is sponsoring the program. "The students were selected on the
basis of their academic and extracurricular
achievements, and each has been nominated
for a Dean's Scholar award."
One group will visit March 21-22. Another
will be here March 23-24. The students will
attend a dinner with faculty and staff and a
lunch with President Gregory Farrington
and Provost Nelson Markley; visit academic
departments and undergraduate classes; and
stay overnight with undergraduate hosts.
IPD students join
'madness' at Smithsonian
"Cyclops," a unique suspension
system for mountain bikes that
was invented by a team
of Lehigh students, is
one of 16 inventions
from U.S. colleges exhibited recently at the
Smithsonian Institute
as part of "March Madness for the Mind."
The students formed
Obsidian Suspension
Systems to design, test
and manufacture a
new, single-blade suspension fork, the Obsidian Cyclops, for the
downhill segment of the
mountain bike industry.
They developed a
prototype of this single-blade
suspension fork to improve on
existing fork design problems.
They then tested and refined it,
compared its performance with
leading competitors' products
on the market, and established
a market entry strategy
through 2002.
Todd Watkins, associate
professor of economics said, "to
pull this off, these business and
engineering students managed
to combine high energy and creativity with a solid grasp of engineering science, business fundamentals and a superior understanding of the design and
manufacturing process."
Nathan Laver '99, a finance
major, said, "the Obsidian
project gave me a chance to apply the knowledge I gained from
my course work to a real business. I also got to make some
tough decisions and see results."
The Cyclops team is part of
the Integrated Product Development (IPD) program, a five-
year-old interdisciplinary program started in the department
of mechanical engineering and
mechanics in which ME students join with students from
business and the arts and sciences to design, test, make and
do a market feasibility study for,
a new product. Projects are
sponsored and funded by companies.
Mike Dotsey '99, an ME
major, came up with the concept
for Cyclops, and an IPD team
was formed under the direction
of Watkins, Terry Delph and
John Ochs, both professors of
mechanical engineering and
mechanics.
The Cyclops was displayed at
the Smithsonian as part of an
exhibit sponsored by the
Lemelson Center, based at the
National Museum of American
History. The National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators
Alliance (NCIIA) Exhibition is
administered by the Lemelson
National Program at Hampshire College in Amherst, Mass.
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