Clark School Press Release Story

White Symposium to Highlight Dramatic Uses of Satellite Technology

Clark School Event to Feature Leading Figures in Sailing, Broadcast, Weather and Entertainment

MEDIA ADVISORY  October 20, 2010

CONTACT:
Melissa Corley
301 405 6501
mcorley@umd.edu

Abby Sunderland, teen sailor

WHAT: "Search and Rescue, War Reporting, Hurricane Tracking and Rock and Roll in the Satellite Age" – the 2010 Charles and Helen White Symposium on Engineering Innovation at the A. James Clark School of Engineering.

WHO: Speakers include:

-Abby Sunderland: One of the youngest people to attempt to sail around the world, she was rescued through satellite technology when her ship dismasted in the Indian Ocean;

-Jamie McIntyre: A former CNN Pentagon correspondent, he used satellite technology to report from the battlefront in Iraq;

-Abigail Harper: A NOAA satellite official, she helps to track hurricanes and warn those in harm’s way;

-DJ "Cousin Brucie" (Bruce Morrow): This legendary rock and roll DJ and Radio Hall of Famer, uses satellite technology to bring rock and roll music to audiences across the country.

-Robert Briskman '61: Sirius Satellite Radio co-founder, who created the Sirius Satellite Radio system

-Moderator: Emmy-Winning Reporter Holly Morris, of Washington, D.C.'s WTTG FOX 5

WHEN: October 21, 2010
5 to 6:30 p.m. (immediately following the induction of Robert Briskman into the Clark School's Innovation Hall of Fame)

WHERE: Kim Engineering Building Rotunda
A. James Clark School of Engineering
University of Maryland College Park Campus, College Park, MD 20742.

MORE: http://www.eng.umd.edu/white/symposium10.htm
http://www.eng.umd.edu/events/white.html

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