Dr. Westphall received his UWW Physics degree in 1985 and is now a Project Research Scientist at UW-Madison's Space Astronomy Laboratory working on the Far Ultraviolet SpectroPolarimeter. He will share his carreer and research experiences in this tallk.

This talk will be about the space missions that will be launched in the next year and a little bit about some of the most interesting of the many currrently operating science missions.

Dr. Stephen P. Maran, a senior advisor with the American Astronomical Society, is an astronomer and author with long experience in the Space Program. The author or editor of twelve books and of over 100 popular articles on astronomy and space exploration, and many more scientific publications, he retired from NASA on October 1, 2004 after more than 35 years with the agency. On August 31, 2009, he retired after 25 years (most of them overlapping with NASA service) as Press Officer of the Society.

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LabVIEW is a graphical programming environment that has revolutionized the development of test, measurement, and control applications. Come to the workshop and make programs to enhance your productivity and job prospects. Since space is limited, please sign up in the Physics Department Office so I can determine the number of computers to set up.

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This travelling collection of 40 striking images of galaxies, planets and more will be on public display at Whitewater and is part of a worldwide celebration of the International Year of Astronomy, marking 400 years since Galileo first used his telescoppe to look at the moon, planets, and stars. An article about the display can be found at http://www.news.wisc.edu/16849>/a>

Event details can be found on the WAPT 2009 Meeting Information page or you can downloaded the 2009 Meeting Program (pdf) here.
Dr. Steven Maran provided the keynote "Galileo to Hubble and Beyond" at 8 pm in the Hamilton Center.
A meeting summary page and links from the meeting are at http://www.uwec.edu/wapt/Meetings/2009/Summary/index.html and pictures of the meeting are here.

Biological Sciences

There are two speakers for Biology Colloquium this Friday who will talk about jobs for individuals with scientific training. Brian Bredeson Hunting Season for Jobs - Help is Here will be talking about how the UWW office can help students prepare for job hunting and Brandon Fobert Adventures with Aerotek will talk about how his company works and some of their clients.

Mathematical and Computer Sciences

Chemistry

We will report on a study in introductory college chemistry courses which both measures a studentÕs concept of scale and atomic unitizing prior to both instruction and utilization of instrumentation (remote, real-time viewing of scanning electron microscope images, and in-classroom scanning tunneling and optical microscope images). A new spatial scale pretest has been developed and initial findings on this instrument will be presented as well as a live demonstration of the remote-access SEM.