LehighNow Volume 02, Issue 14

              LEHIGHNOW
April 17, 2002
Volume 2, Issue 14
IN BRIEF
COMING UP
New phone
system to be
installed
During May, Lehigh
University's telecommunications department will
complete the installation
of the new Intecom
Pointspan telephone
system. The final
transition will occur over
three weekends: May 3-5,
May 17-19 and May 24-26.
To determine when
your building will be
affected by this work,
consult the project
web page at http: / /
www.lehigh.edu /
phones / replace.html.
Due to the amount of
work involved, service to
the affected buildings
will be interrupted at
noon on each respective
Friday. Service will be
restored on a rolling basis
as the new phones are
installed and tested on
Saturday and Sunday.
Some phones, such as
blue-light emergency
phones, power failure
phones (listed on page 2
of the Campus Directory)
and pay phones will still
be available for use
during the service
outages. Any calls that    ■
come into regular phone
lines during the service
outage can still be picked
up by voice mail.
For more information,
call the project hotline at
ext-86600 or Lizanne
Hurst at ext-85014.
Lehigh
researchers
earn EPA
grant
Don Morris, associate
professor of earth and
environmental sciences,
and a group of distinguished Lehigh colleagues
have been awarded a
three-year, $825,000 EPA
grant to study environmental factors regulating
the exposure of streams
and rivers to solar UV
radiation.
According to Morris, an
aquatic ecosystem
ecologist, it is the first
major study to investigate
the interactive effects of
landscape, climate and UV
radiation on river ecosystems.
The grant was awarded
through the STAR (Science
To Achieve Results)
Program, part of the EPA's
National Center for
Environmental Research.
The study will focus on
how current watershed
and river properties
interact with climate and
solar radiation to determine current UV exposure,
and how living organisms
have adapted in order to
survive this UV exposure.
In addition to Morris,
the multidisciplinary team
includes Craig
Williamson, professor of
earth and environmental
sciences; Frank Pazzaglia,
associate professor of earth
and environmental
sciences; Rick Weisman,
professor of civil engineering, and Bruce Hargreaves,
associate professor of earth
and environmental
The image above was taken from a poster created by Marvin
Simmons, director of University Design, for this event.
Former Australian foreign minister
to deliver Cohen Lecture
Gareth Evans, a 21-year
member of the Australian
Parliament and current chief
executive of the International Crisis Group (ICG),
will deliver the 16th Annual
Cohen International
Relations Lecture at Lehigh
at 8 p.m. Tuesday, April 23,
in Baker Hall of the Zoellner
Arts Center. The lecture is
free and open to the public.
Evans' talk, "Confronting
the Challenge of Terrorism:
International Relations after
9-11," will highlight how
international crisis has taken
on new significance in the
past six months and how the
international community is
becoming increasingly
polarized.
"Mr. Evans is a fabulous
speaker with a unique
perspective," says Henri
Barkey, chair of the international relations department
at Lehigh University. "Name
the hot spot around the
world, and Mr. Evans is
there gaining a ground-level
perspective. It is an honor to
welcome a leader of his
stature to the Lehigh Valley."
Since January 2000, Evans
has served as president and
chief executive of the
Brussels-based office of ICG, a
private advocacy organization
committed to improving the
way the international
community responds to
crises. He was also recently
appointed co-chair of the
International Commission on
Intervention and State
Sovereignty.
Evans resigned from the
Australian Parliament in
September 1999. He was the
longest serving parliamentary
member of the Australian
Labor Party.
He is best known internationally as foreign minister for
his role in founding APEC in
1989, and for developing the
U.N. Peace Plan for Cambodia.
The Cohen International
Relations Lecture Series is
made possible by an endowment from the late Bernard L.
Cohen, a 1936 Lehigh
graduate, and his wife, Bertha
Finkelstein Cohen, a 1937
graduate of Moravian College.