The first Frank J. Malina Symposium will be held at Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas on Feb 22, 2002. Frank Malina was the founder of Leonardo in 1967, but also an American rocketry pioneer, first Director of the NASA JPL and a tireless worker for international collaboration in UNESCO and the International Academy of Astronautics.

This symposium will honor the lifetime artistic and scientific achievements of Dr. Frank Malina. The program will consist of distintuished scientists, engineers, architects, and artists, making a series of presentations drawn from the left brain, right brain creative spectrum that Frank Malina's many diverse contributions collectively spanned.

Speakers include:

Scientist-Artist:	Dr. Roger Malina
Artist-Sculpturer:	Ms. Janet Saad-Cook
Aesthetic Architect-Artist:	Dr. Thomas Linehan
Aerospace Engineer:	Dr. John Junkins
Propulsion Expert:	Dr. Joseph Schetz
Technical Historian:	Dr. Benjamin Zibit

The Symposium will also include a tour of the George Bush Presidential Library and a banquet.

Direct inquiries to the Symposium Organizer:

Ms. Lisa Willingham, 979 845 3912 (USA)
l-willingham@tamu.edu
Department of Aerospace Engineering
Center for Mechanics and Control
Texas A&M University
3141 TAMU
College Station, Texas 77843-3141
USA

For more information on Frank Malina see: http://www.olats.org/pionniers/malina/malina.php

For more information on Leonardo see: http://mitpress2.mit.edu/Leonardo