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NOAO Newsletter - NOAO Educational Outreach - September 2000 - Number 63
Suzanne Jacoby
This is the time of year when managers review the
previous year and forecast the future. Newsletter readers may be interested
to know how Educational Outreach at NOAO is funded. There are currently 5.2
full-time-equivalent (FTE) employees in the group, up from the original
half-time employee in 1995. Of these 5.2 FTEs, 2.83 are supported by core
NSF/NOAO funding and 2.37 are funded by external grants, which include our
RBSE grant from the NSF Education and Human Resources Directorate,
supplemental funding from NSF/Astronomy to support Project ASTRO-Tucson, a
NASA IDEAS grant, and NASA E/PO supplements to NOAO-affiliated research
grants.
With nearly half the group funded outside the core program, obtaining
ongoing funding is always a priority. Recent efforts are described below.
- Funding has been received through a supplement to Robin Ciardullo's NASA
LTSA grant to develop Kitt Peak Visitor Center materials and NOAO public Web
pages illustrating "The Origins and Properties of Intracluster Stars." This
is a five-year grant, with a $10K supplement for E/PO expected each year.
During the first year, Web pages, hands-on demonstrations, and a
StarDate/Universo radio program (through McDonald Observatory) will be
developed.
- Two additional E/PO supplements have been submitted with NASA research
proposals involving NOAO staff: "A Public Web Interface for Exploring
Multiwavelength Surveys," Arjun Dey, PI, in response to NRA 00-OSS-01, and
"Student Interns Investigating Limiting Performance of Candidate NGST
Near-IR Arrays," K. Michael Merrill, PI, in response to NRA 00-OSS-03. We're
waiting to hear on the success of both these proposals.
- A preliminary proposal was submitted to the NSF Education and Human
Resources Directorate to build on the RBSE Teacher Enhancement program and
fund its continued development for the next five years. A full proposal has
been encouraged and is due in October.
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