Education and Public Outreach

The Cycle 4 Chandra Education and Public Outreach (EPO) Peer Review, conducted jointly by NASA and CXC, was held in Cambridge MA on Oct. 23-24, 2002. A seven-member panel representing science, education, museum, Forum, NASA mission and NASA management perspectives reviewed 19 proposals. Twelve individual PI proposals and 7 institutional proposals were submitted, a record for Chandra EPO (Education and Public Outreach) submissions. The overall quality of the proposals was high, which made the selection process quite competitive. Four individual proposals and three institutional proposals were selected for funding. A list of the selected PI's and institutions follows. Additional summary information about each selected proposal can be found on the Chandra EPO web site at:
http://chandra.harvard.edu/edu/.

Individual PI Proposals

• Bright Lights Big City: Massive Galaxies & Supermassive Black Holes
  Science PI: Dr. Wil van Breugel, Lawrence Livermore Lab
  Education PI: Stan Hitomi, Exec. Dir., Edward Teller Education Center
  Education Partners: Edward Teller Education Center, Science & Technology Education Program (STEP)
  Contact: Stan Hitomi, hitomi@llnl.gov

• A Star in Our Neighborhood
  Science PI: Prof. Joseph P. Cassinelli, Univ. of Wisconsin
  Education Co-I: Dr. Jim Lattis, U. Wisconsin Space Place
  Education Partner: U. Wisconsin Space Place
  Contact: James Lattis, lattis@sal.wisc.edu

• The Chandra Student Research Program at the Pisgah Astronomical Instititu
  Science Co-I/EPO PI: Dr. Jonathan Keohane, North Carolina School of Science & Mathematics
  Education Partner: Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute
  Contact: Jonathan Keohane, keohane@ncssm.edu

• Black Holes, Seeing the Unseeable: A Planetarium Show at the Science Museum of Virginia
  Science PI: Prof. Craig Sarazin, University of Virginia
  Education Co-I: Dr. Edward Murphy
  Education Partner: Science Museum of Virginia
  Contact: Edward Murphy, emurphy@virginia.edu

Institutional Proposals

• Gear Up and Look Up with Chandra
  Institutional PI: Prof. Deepto Chakbaraty, MIT
  EPO Co-I: Dr. Irene Porro
  Education Partners: GEAR UP in Boston, Boston Museum of Science
  Contact: Irene Porro, iporro@space.mit.edu

• Creating Agents for Science
  Institutional PI: Dr. Ronald Elsner, NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center
  EPO Co-I: Mitzi Adams, MSFC
  Education Partners: U. of AL, Huntsville, Institute of Science Education (ISEd),
  Huntsville Housing Authority Cultural Art Conservancy,
  Huntsville Weed and Seed (US Dept. of Justice),
  Chandra X-ray Center (CXC)
  Contact: Mitzi Adams, mitzi.adams@msfc.nasa.gov

• New and Improved: the Future of the Penn State Inservice Workshops in Astronomy
  Institutional PI: Dr. Eric Feigelson, Pennsylvania State University
  EPO Co-I: Dr. Christopher Palma
  Contact: Christopher Palma, cpalma@astro.psu.edu

Cycle 5 EPO and Peer Review

The CXC has responsibility for issuing the Call for Proposals (CfP) for EPO proposals as well as organizing and carrying out the Peer Review. PIs interested in submitting EPO proposals should read the EPO section of the Cycle 5 CfP. Supplementary EPO proposals may be submitted by PIs of selected science proposals who are US citizens. Additional information and specific links for proposal submission will be posted to the CXC proposer site at:
http://cxc.harvard.edu/proposer/.

Deadline for Cycle 5 EPO proposals is September 19, 2003

Note that the deadline for Cycle 5 EPO proposals has been decoupled from the due date of the science budget to enable EPO proposers to concentrate fully on their EPO submission.

CXC Education & Public Outreach Resources

• New! 8 new postcards showing a Chandra image with multi-wavelength comparisons. Selection includes CAS A, 30 Doradus, Cen A, M82, Eta Carinae, Crab Nebula, M51, and a collection (all in X-ray) of supernova remnants.

• See http://chandra.harvard.edu/edu/epo/epo_resources.html for an on-line order form to request printed outreach materials

• A reminder that we maintain an on-line resource section on chandra.harvard.edu that includes all Chandra images that have been released on our Press and Photo Album pages.

  We maintain multiple formats:
  

  • Printing & incorporation into digital/film products (http://chandra.harvard.edu/resources/images.html)

  • PowerPoint slides (ppt version) (http://chandra.harvard.edu/resources/ppt/index.html)

  • Printing as viewgraphs (PDF version) (http://chandra.harvard.edu/resources/ppt/index.html)

  • Basic PowerPoint presentations (http://chandra.harvard.edu/resources/pptshows/index.html)

  • Animations & video (http://chandra.harvard.edu/resources/animations)

We encourage you to use this section as a resource for talks and public presentations or to create other outreach materials.

Kathy Lestition