This Week's Stories: $1.2 Million Grant for Environmental Sciences Picture: Alter Ego Rare Medieval Manuscripts Examined Via the Internet Reunions Raise $2 Million New Faculty Profile: Shannon Jackson New Chair for Western European Studies Center for Western European Studies: What it Does Former Regent Brophy Talks on UC History Report Documents Latino Demographics and Voting Behavior in California Halloween Corrupts Day of the Dead Examining Multicultural Contributions to America Lecture and Reading by South African Novelist Baas Resigns from Berkeley Art Museum Picture: Rider in the Storm New Doctoral Program in Dramatic Art Debuts Two Management Positions Open to Campus Candidates Berkeley Dean Addresses World Bank Workshop Human Rights Fellows Report on Summer Projects Nov. 12 Celebrating a Century Regular Features Awards Campus Memos News Briefs Staff Enrichment		Picture: Rider in the Storm posted November 4, 1998   Peg Skorpinski photo The spectacular Leonids meteor shower expected Nov. 17 and 18 is good news for stargazers, but a worrisome prospect for Brett Stroozas, project manager for the campus-operated Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer satellite mission. The EUVE team plans to do some fancy repositioning to protect the satellite's main telescope and data transmitter antenna system from a potential pummeling. The Leonid meteor stream originates from Comet 55P/Tempel-Tuttle. In this year's shower -- the most intense in decades -- thousands of shooting stars may flash overhead every minute. Leonid meteors travel at about 45 miles per second (as compared to 12 miles per second for typical meteors), increasing the risk of damage to near-Earth orbiting spacecraft like EUVE. Lawrence Hall of Science plans to offer information on meteors and guidelines on the best types of places to view the Leonids at its stargazing session Saturday, Nov. 10. The stargazing happens weekly, weather permitting, on the lawn below the museum. LHS has also created a direct link to a web site devoted to the Leonid meteor storm. See the LHS Hotlinks page at www.lhs.berkeley.edu/HotLinks.html.     .

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