| Alumni Matters (624 words) |
 | Gillian Wu, dean of the Faculty of Science & Engineering, welcomed guests and spoke of the 40 years of research that lay behind the "overnight success" of projects such as the 2007 Phoenix mission to Mars and its York-designed and prepared package of meteorological instruments (see story in the Aug. |
| Shapson said the gathering was intended to let scientists meet colleagues and let their instinct for discovery lead them to new areas for interdisciplinary research that would assist major initiatives such as manned space flights to Mars. |
| Shapson also picked up on a theme set by Gordon Shepherd, director of CRESS, who spoke of Canada's tradition of international cooperation in space research and the role CRESS has played since 1965 in building a body of expertise at York. |
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