Past News

• 2009-09 Skip Johnson just returned from a 105-days boat trip this summer having travelled from Vermont to NewYork to Montréal to Otawa and back to Michigan via the Hudson, the St. Lawrence, the Ottawa River, the Rideau Canal, the Trent-Severn Waterway and the Georgian Bay. At the same site, you can also read their summer 2008 travels from Chicago to Vermont - 71 days that year.
• 2009-07 John Grunsfeld was featured on the Chicago Tribune.
• 2009-04 John Grunsfeld - Flew on the Space Shuttle mission STS-125 for the repair of the Hubble Space Telescope. The Hubble was captured and five EVAs were performed - Grunsfeld was part of EVA 1, 3 and 5.
• 2009-03 Warren Harvey dies March 3, 2009. He was 84.
• 2009-02 John Stepney Sr. dies February 8, 2009. He was 83.
  View the pamphlet distributed at the funeral (with pictures).
• 2009-01 Charlie Fan dies January 21, 2009. He was 91.
  • Obituary and guest book - Arizona Daily Star
  • Obituary published on Physics Today online.
    
• 2009-01 New Facebook Group LASR Remembered created for LASR alumni.

• 2008-01 Tony Tuzzolino dies January 9, 2008. He was 76.

  • Univerity of Chicago release

• 2007-12 Symposium for Charlie Fan's 90th birthday - Tucson, January 15, 2008
• 2007-11 John Grunsfeld is featured in the UofC Magazine
• 2007-09 Dick Glennie, Linda's husband dies September 15, 2007. He was 69.
  • Obituary in Journal of Oak Park
• 2007-05 News from Nicholas Boruta - The last PHD student of Eugene Parker
• 2007-05 Frank C. Jones dies May 2, 2007. He was 74.
• 2007-03 Marcia Cambric dies March, 2007. She was 68.

• 2006-10 John Grunsfeld to go into space for the 5th time - Hubble mission
• 2006-10 Müller Symposium - For his Emeritus status
                 Announcement, pictures, and presentations
• 2006-07 News from Dick Blenz - Worked for Simpson 1955-1966
• 2006-05 Tuzzolino Symposium - With pictures
• 2006-04 Tom Bogdan named director of the Space Environment Center of NOAA
• 2006-01 Brian Cartwright Named SEC General Counsel

• 2005-12 LASR 40th Anniversary symposium - With links to pictures
• 2005-10 John Cole dies October 4, 2005
• 2005-08 Ed Blume dies August 13, 2005
• 2005-06 Skip Johnson retires - Big party with pictures

• 2004-11 Frank DiDonna dies November 10, 2004
• 2004-09 Wayne ("Skip") Johnson - Profile of a Special Person
• 2004-09 Valerie Smith honored - 25 years with LASR
• 2004-09 Moises Garcia-Munoz dies September 13, 2004
• 2004-06 Tuzzolino and Economou are in the news
• 2004-06 Bill Brubaker dies on June 11, 2004
• 2004-04 News about George Vrabel - He passed away in 1993
• 2004-02 I heard from Dan Hunsginger and now have his email address
• 2004-01 About Pete Kruley

• 2003-09 John Grunsfeld - NASA new Chief Scientist - See also the Chronicle notice
• 2003-08 Yvette McLean dies on August 25, 2003.
• 2003-07 Eugene Parker awarded the Kyoto Prize - See also the Chronicle notice
• 2003-06 Tom Economu is in the news
• 2003-06 News about Ken Yates

• 2002-03 Peter Meyer dies on March 7, 2002.

• 2000-08 John Simpson dies on August 31. 2000

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