The cooling tower should be operational by Thursday, May 3. The student food pantry is short on items and is asking for donations. Contributions can be dropped off at SW-109. For more information, call Anne Hamlett at 7-2424. A scientific exhibition, From Alchemy to Nanotechnology.
Admission is free.
The exhibit, which traces the history of chemistry from the early 17th century to modern times, contains 24 prints, books and paintings from the collection of Arthur Greenberg that illustrate shifting views of matter and energy during the last 500 years. Greenberg, dean of the College of Engineering and Physical Sciences, University of New Hampshire, will discuss the exhibition at 4 p.m. Wednesday, April 25, in FA-Casadesus Hall. Sponsored by the Art Museum and Science Across the Curriculum, the lecture is free and open to the public. Pulitzer Prize Winning Author Joins BU Faculty Pulitzer Prize winning author and historian Herbert P. Bix, who this week was awarded the 2001 Pulitizer Prize for general non fiction, will join Binghamton University's faculty in May with joint appointments as a full professor in sociology and history. A graduate of Harvard University, Bix earned a PhD in history and Far Eastern languages and has taught Japanese history at a number of American and Japanese universities, including Harvard.