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  • Dr. Ethan Schreier, President of Associated Universities gives testimony at the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space and Technology Subcommittee Hearing on NSF Multi-User research facilities.
    Dr. Ethan Schreier, President of Associated Universities gives testimony at the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space and Technology Subcommittee Hearing on NSF Multi-User research facilities. House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology

AUI President Dr. Ethan Schreier gives testimony for Subcommittee on Research and Science Education

April 18, 2012
Dr. Ethan Schreier, President of Associated Universities, was invited to give testimony on April 18, 2012, at the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space and Technology Subcommittee Hearing on NSF Multi-User research facilities… Read More
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  • NRAO Director Fred Lo, at podium, commands the start of first official observation of the Jansky VLA
    NRAO Director Fred Lo, at podium, commands the start of first official observation of the Jansky VLA Dave Finley, NRAO/AUI/NSF

Famous Radio Telescope Officially Gets New Name

March 31, 2012
Astronomers and officials from around the globe gathered on the high desert of New Mexico Saturday to officially bestow a new name on the world's most famous radio telescope and to mark its transformation into a new and vastly more powerful tool for science… Read More
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  • AUI and NRAO senior diversity officials
    AUI and NRAO senior diversity officials February/March 2012 issue of Diversity/Careers in Engineering & Information Technology magazine

Diversity In Action

March 19, 2012
"From the February/March 2012 issue of Diversity/Careers in Engineering & Information Technology magazine," http://online… Read More
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Science

  • Fomalhaut and its dust ring
    Fomalhaut and its dust ring A.C. Boley (University of Florida, Sagan Fellow), M.J. Payne, E.B. Ford, M. Shabran (University of Florida), S. Corder (North American ALMA Science Center, National Radio Astronomy Observatory), and W. Dent (ALMA, Chile), NRAO/AUI/NSF; NASA, ESA, P. Kalas, J. Graham, E. Chiang, E. Kite (University of California, Berkeley), M. Clampin (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center), M. Fitzgerald (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), and K. Stapelfeldt and J. Krist (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory)

ALMA Reveals Workings of Nearby Planetary

April 12, 2012
A new observatory still under construction has given astronomers a major breakthrough in understanding a nearby planetary system that can provide valuable clues about how such systems form and evolve… Read More
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  • Bill Saxton, NRAO/AUI/NSF

Astronomers Get Rare Peek at Early Stage of Star Formation

March 14, 2012
Using radio and infrared telescopes, astronomers have obtained a first tantalizing look at a crucial early stage in star formation… Read More
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From Earth's Water to Cosmic Dawn: New Tools Unveiling Astronomical Mysteries

February 17, 2012
Two new and powerful research tools are helping astronomers gain key insights needed to transform our understanding of important processes across the breadth of astrophysics… Read More
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Alma

ALMA Early Science Result Reveals Starving Galaxies

January 11, 2012
Astronomers using the partially completed ALMA observatory have found compelling evidence for how star-forming galaxies evolve into 'red and dead' elliptical galaxies, catching a large group of galaxies right in the middle of this change… Read More
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  • North American 12-meter telescopes in the growing Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) at 16,500 ft elevation in northern Chile. ALMA is only one-third complete, but is already the most powerful astronomical observatory of its kind.
    North American 12-meter telescopes in the growing Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) at 16,500 ft elevation in northern Chile. ALMA is only one-third complete, but is already the most powerful astronomical observatory of its kind. W. Garnier, ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)

Antennas by General Dynamics Enable "Early Science" for What Will Become the World's Most Advanced Radio Telescope

October 3, 2011
Thirteen 12-meter antennas manufactured by General Dynamics SATCOM Technologies have been successfully installed at the 16,500-foot-high Chajnanator plateau in Chile, home to the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) astronomical observatory… Read More
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  • The growing Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array at 16,500 ft elevation in northern Chile. It is only one-third complete, but is already the most powerful telescope of its kind.
    The growing Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array at 16,500 ft elevation in northern Chile. It is only one-third complete, but is already the most powerful telescope of its kind. NRAO/AUI/NSF

ALMA Opens Its Eyes

March 11, 2011
Thousands of scientists from around the world competed to be the first few researchers to explore some of the darkest, coldest, farthest, and most hidden secrets of the Cosmos with this new astronomical tool… Read More
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