WHO: The Rev. John P. Minogue, C.M., president of DePaul and a member of NASA’s Advisory Council,

Carolyn Narasimhan, professor of mathematics, founding director of the NASA Space Science Center for Outreach and Education at DePaul and director of DePaul’s Interdisciplinary Science and Technology Center (ISTC),

James Sweitzer, director of the NASA Space Science Center for Education and Outreach at DePaul,

G. Michael Green, senior planning specialist deployed to DePaul from NASA’s Washington, D.C. headquarters to assist in DePaul’s ISTC

WHAT: Are hosting a space science symposium for regional-area math and science teachers. More than 200 kindergarten through 12th grade educators from Indiana, Wisconsin, downstate Illinois and the Chicago area will attend a plenary with Nagin Cox, systems engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, who will discuss the “Mars 2003 Mission: Step by Step Robotically at the Red Planet.” The group will also spend time discussing the Columbia space shuttle disaster and the future of NASA’s education mission specialist project.

WHEN: Saturday, Feb. 8 from 8:50 a.m. until 3 p.m. The plenary with Nagin Cox is at 9 a.m.; the discussion of Columbia is at 10 a.m.

WHERE: Schmitt Academic Center, 2320 N. Kenmore Ave., Room 154, Chicago.