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UH’s Summer Book Club
Wednesday, June 26
The book club will meet at noon at the Women’s Resource Center (WRC), Room 279A of the University Center. Members will discuss the novel “Jasmine” by Bharati Mukherjee. Bring a brown bag lunch and drinks and desserts will be provided. All students, staff, faculty and alumni are welcome to participate. Contact Catherine Essinger at cwessinger@uh.edu if you wish to borrow a copy of the book from the UH Libraries. The book club is sponsored by the UH Libraries and the WRC. 

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Alumna and retired astronaut Bonnie Dunbar, M.D. Anderson Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering, is now the new director of the Aerospace Engineering Program. Earlier this year, Dunbar, a veteran of five space shuttle missions, was hired to lead UH’s STEM Center. Photo courtesy of NASA
Bonnie Dunbar

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