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Public Outreach
*Wanted--Undergraduate and Graduate Students interested in astrophysics!!
Contact Dr.
Fred Bruhweiler if you are interested, or go to the Educational Outreach page.
Educuational Outreach and Service
Guhathakurta has been detailed since November of
1998, on an Intergovernmental Personnel Act (IPA) assignment at the Office
of Space Science (OSS), NASA,
Headquarters to assume the responsibilities of the program scientist for the
solar and heliospheric physics branch. As an
IPA Guhathakurta is working on solar physics issues
of importance to understanding the field as a whole and the role it has in the
study of the Sun-Earth Connection within the solar system. She is in charge
of management and outreach
of solar physics flight programs now operational. She is also assigned the task
of program scientist for the upcoming solar and heliospheric missions, STEREO and
Solar Probe.
The IACS strongly encourages the participation of graduate and undergraduate
students as well as capable high school students in scientific research. IACS
personnel directly supervising these students have been Bruhweiler, Chen,
Crenshaw, Gopalswamy,
Gabel and Kraemer.
Bruhweiler and Crenshaw
serve as official Mentors for the Montgomery County and Prince George County school
system in Maryland. Bruhweiler
and Gabel have regularly visited elementary and
intermediate schools to lecture
and assist teachers in astronomy and physics presentations and been judges for
school science fairs. Bruhweiler has also served
as a lecturer for the Space Telescope Science Institute Lecture Series and also
for the Smithsonian Associates Lecture Program. Bruhweiler
also gave the keynote address for the Blair High School Mentor Award Ceremony
(Montgomery County, MD).
SUNBEAMS (Students United with NASA Becoming Enthusiastic About Math and
Science) is now in its second year as a pilot program. This effort is headed by
Carol Jo Crannell. The number of
teachers participating in the 5-week summer workshops, increased from 9 to
18, and the number of participating mentors increased proportionately. The
first of the 18 classes to come to Goddard for a full week of total
immersion in math and science will be at Goddard on October 4 and the
enthusiasm for the program is increasing throughout the District of
Columbia Public Schools. Efforts to replicate the program are underway in
Philadelphia and Boston.
The CUA/GSFC summer student program in the Laboratory for Astronomy and
Solar Physics, in its ninth year of funding with an NSF/REU site grant, had
a record number of students (55) participating in our seminars and other
activities. The students ranged from high school seniors to graduate students
and worked in discipline areas ranging from Atmospheric Sciences to Solar
Physics, Astronomy, and Astrophysics.
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