EISENHOWER KIN TO GIVE LECTURE AT UNM

October 20, 2003

EISENHOWER KIN TO GIVE LECTURE AT UNM

Susan Eisenhower, granddaughter of Dwight D. Eisenhower and president of the Eisenhower Institute, and Roald Sagdeev, Distinguished Professor of Physics at the University of Maryland, will present a lecture, “Atoms for Peace for the next 50 years from the U.S. and Soviet Union perspective,” Friday, Oct. 24 at 4:30 p.m. in Anthropology Building, room 163. The lecture, sponsored by the Office of the Vice Provost for Research, is free and open to the public.

Eisenhower is best known for her work in Russia and the former Soviet Union. Over the years, Eisenhower has testified before the Senate Armed Services and Senate Budget Committees on policy toward that region. She has also been appointed to the National Academy of Sciences’ standing Committee on International Security and Arms Control (CISAC) where she is now serving a third term.

She also serves as an Academic Fellow of the International Peace and Security program of Carnegie Corporation of New York and is a director of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the Nuclear Threat Initiative. She served two terms on the National Advisory Council of NASA.

Sagdeev is the director of SilkSat, a telecommunications project utilizing small satellites. He is also Director Emeritus of the Moscow-based center of Russian space exploration, the Space Research Institute.

He is one of the youngest scientists ever elected a full academician of Russia’s Academy of Sciences. Prior to that appointment, he had a distinguished career in nuclear science as a plasma physicist. His work on the behavior of hot plasma and controlled thermo-nuclear fusion has received many prestigious prizes and is recognized internationally.

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