AAS 197, January 2001
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Session 54. Education and Public Outreach

Joint Display, Tuesday, January 9, 2001, 9:30am-7:00pm, Exhibit Hall

54.01 Impact: Education/Public Outreach (E/PO)
B. Eisenhamer (STScI)
54.02 Women's Science Forum: Outreach to High School Girls
M. E. Donahue (Space Telescope Science Institute), Lisa Wyckoff (Maryland Science Center)
54.03 The Creation of a Graduate Student Public Outreach Program
D. L. Ratay, D. B. Dahari (University of Florida)
54.04 Astronomy Picture of the Day in the Classroom
J. T. Bonnell (NASA/GSFC/USRA), R. J. Nemiroff (Michigan Tech)
54.05 Current Astronomy Topics in the Precollege Science Classroom
C.R. Weehler (San Antonio Independent School District, TX), S. Hart (Pinson Valley High School, Pinson, AL), S.H. Jacoby (NOAO)
54.06 Did You See the Moon Last Night? - Scientific Inquiry through Writing, Art, and Observation
S.H. Jacoby, G.L. Beal (NOAO)
54.07 Project ASTRO NOVA brings Standard Based Astronomy to New Jersey Schools.
W. van der Veen (Columbia U.), J. Vinski (Planetarium, Raritan Valley Community College), A. C. Gallagher (Hillsborough School District)
54.08 Project ASTRO BOSTON
C. M. Clemens, F. R. Harnden, Jr. (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA), Marianne Dunne (MoS)
54.09 Helping the Public Touch the Stars -- Programs of the Lake Afton Public Observatory
D. R. Alexander, G. R. Novacek, W. S. Kardel (Wichita St. U.)
54.10 Astronomy Public Tour Program at the University of Toronto
W. A Barkhouse, C. R. Burns (U. Toronto)
54.11 A Celestial Navigation Lesson for Middle School Science Students
R. Elwell, J. J. Smetanka (Saint Vincent College)
54.12 Curriculum Using Real Science Data at the Princeton Earth Physics Project
D. Steinberg, R. Phinney (Princeton University)
54.13 Light, Waves and Interference: Tools for the Quest for Extrasolar Planets
R. Danner, R. Hines (JPL, California Institute of Technology)
54.14 A Planet Detection Tutorial and Simulator
D. Koch (NASA Ames Research Center)
54.15 Astrobiology Education and Outreach: A ``Life In the Cosmos" Seminar Course and an Astrobiology Society at UCLA
G. Schultz (University of California, Berkeley)
54.16 Exploring the Earth, Sun and Stars - A Mid-year Project Report
J. J. Smetanka (Saint Vincent College)
54.17 Bridges, Lights, and Hubris: Examples of Excessive Light Pollution
A.R. Upgren (Wesleyan and Yale Universities)


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