January 6-10, 2013
Long Beach, California
Three undergraduates and two faculty members attended and presented at the recent meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Long Beach, California.
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November 8-10, 2012
Orlando, Florida
SC State Physics Faculty Member and Students Attend and Present at the Quadrennial Physics Conference.
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Saturday, November 3, 2012
9:00 am to 2:30 pm
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October 4-6, 2012
Kitt Peak National Observatory, Tucson, AZ
First time observers Charles Kurgatt and Joe Bartolini joined Dr. Walter for a three night observing run on the Coude Feed telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory.
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Read about SC State's participation here.
June 6, 2012
Orangeburg, SC
Students, faculty and members of the general public turned out to watch a real-time event that occurs only once or twice in a person's lifetime, a transit of the planet Venus.
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May 31- June 2, 2012
Kitt Peak National Observatory, Tucson, AZ
Interns Maria Martinez and Will Hernandez traveled with Dr. Walter to Kitt Peak at the beginning of their Summer 2012 POCA internship, observing with the Coude Feed telescope and touring other facilities.
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May 16-18, 2012
Kitt Peak National Observatory, Tucson, AZ
POCA Faculty Drs. Cash and Walter and Undergraduate physics major Bryan Pugh visited Kitt Peak National Observatory for a 3-night observing run on the Coude Feed Telescope.
For more information go here.
Physics majors at SCSU acquire the background to pursue graduate studies or a number of career options including medical physics, astrophysics, electrical engineering, computer systems engineering, materials science, and technical business management. Courses in nuclear engineering combined with a physics degree can lead to careers in fields such as environmental science, reactor engineering, and nuclear medicine.
POCA, funded under an National Science Foundation Program: Partnerships in Astronomy and Astrophysics Research and Education (PAARE), represents a partnerships between South Carolina State University, the National Optical Astronomy Observatory and Clemson University. The mission of POCA is to develop an effective, long-term partnership that combines the strengths of the three institutions to increase the scientific and educational output of all the partners with special emphasis on enhancing diversity in the field of astronomy.
The mission of MUCESS is to increase minority participation in the Earth and space sciences. This includes faculty and student research, K-16 education and public outreach.
SC State is a charter member of the RCT Consortium which has taken over management of the 1.3-meter telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory, approximately 50 miles west of Tucson, Arizona. Faculty members and students use the facility in its robotic mode by submitting observing scripts each night. The telescope carries out the requests without human intervention and delivers the data each morning over the Internet. A wide range of astronomical objects are studied by SC State and its RCT partners Western Kentucky University and Villanova University as well as by other national and international groups.
From August 1995 through February 2009, NASA funded research, educational and public outreach programs at SCSU. This link will open a collection of web pages describing these programs.
Cosmology is the scientific study of how the universe began and evolved, and the people who do this work are called cosmologists.
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