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Donna Shirley is the former director of NASA's Mars Exploration
Program. Shirley, originally from Wynnewood, Oklahoma, has more
than 30 years experience in aerospace and civil systems, including
24 years in management. The Mars program began in 1994 with the
purpose of sending orbiters and landers (or rovers) to Mars at intervals
of every 26 months through at least 2005.
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| Dr. John Fagan is a professor
of engineering with the Electric Vehicle Research Institute within
the University of Oklahoma's College of Engineering. His solar and
electrical vehicle research programs are on the cutting edge of alternative
fuel innovations for motor vehicles. His research has produced eight
patents and numerous awards and grants. Some of his most well-known
research projects are the "Smokin' Sooner Schooner," an
electric-powered race car capable of almost 200 mph and an electric
Ford Ranger pickup. |
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Burns Hargis and Mike Turpen
are political analysts and co-hosts of Flashpoint, a weekly
Sunday morning talk show on KFOR Television in Oklahoma City. Despite
vocal differences on most matters, both men are former gubernatorial
candidates — Hargis as a Republican in 1990, and Turpen running
on the Democratic ticket in 1986. |
| Dr. Charles Arntzen is the former
president and CEO of the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research.
His research team infused raw potatoes with some genetic material
from the strain of E. coli bacterium which causes traveler's diarrhea.
University of Maryland scientists have noted an immune response in
people who ate the potatoes. Arntzen has held faculty positions at
the University of Illinois and Michigan State University, and visiting
professorships in France, Australia, and China. His primary research
interests are in plant molecular biology and protein engineering,
as well as the utilization of plant biotechnology for enhancement
of food quality and value, for expression of pharmacologically active
products in transgenic plants, and for overcoming health and agricultural
constraints in the developing world. |
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