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Free presentation on CUREA at Mount Wilson
Mount Wilson Observatory Association (MWOA)
P.O. Box 70076, Pasadena, CA 91117 For Immediate Release For information, contact: Bob Eklund, (310) 216-5947 Nora Hamilton to Speak Feb. 27 at Altadena Library On ´To the Sun and Beyond! Two Weeks at Mt. Wilson Observatoryˇ What˙s it like to spend two glorious weeks in midsummer living and studying at 5,700-foot-high Mount Wilson Observatory? Nora Hamilton, one of nine students from the U.S., Europe, and Asia who attended the 2004 session of the CUREA in-residence education program at Mount Wilson, will tell us about it at the Mount Wilson Observatory Association˙s monthly lecture/meeting February 27 at the Altadena Public Library. Please join us at 2:30 P.M. for this free talk, or come at 2:00 for a social half-hour before the lecture with refreshments. The CUREA (Consortium for Undergraduate Research and Education in Astronomy) program is held each summer at Mount Wilson Observatory to enable undergraduate physics and astronomy students to gain hands-on experience at a working research observatory. Enrollment is still open for this summer˙s program, which will run from July 3 through July 16, 2005. For more information about CUREA 2005, see http://www.CUREA.org or contact program director Dr. Paula Turner. E-mail: , phone (740) 427-5367. The application deadline for the 2005 program is April 15. The Altadena Library is at 600 E. Mariposa Street in Altadena, two stop signs west of Lake Avenue at the corner of Mariposa and Santa Rosa Avenue (Christmas Tree Lane). Exit the 210 freeway at Lake and go approximately 2˝ miles north to Mariposa Street in Altadena. The lecture is in the library˙s Community Room. The Mount Wilson Observatory Association (MWOA) is a public-membership support group for the Mount Wilson Observatory. MWOA˙s goal is to help the public better understand Mount Wilson Observatory˙s unique history and ongoing scientific work. For information about MWOA membership, contact Don Nicholson at (310) 476-4413, , check the MWOA web site, www.mwoa.org, or write to MWOA, P.O. Box 70046, Pasadena, CA 91117. ### |
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