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Prize<\/h2>\n

\u2022 \u00a0 2003 Education Prize of the American Astronomical Society
\n\u2022 \u00a02017 Richtmyer Memorial Lecture Award of the American Association of Physics Teachers<\/p>\n

Honorary Membership<\/h2>\n

\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, 2003<\/p>\n

Officer and Committee Member<\/h2>\n

\u2022 \u00a0 2011-13 Vice-Chair, Historical Astronomy Division, American Astronomical Society; 2013-15, Chair.
\n\u2022 \u00a0 U.S. National Representative to Commission 46 (The Teaching of Astronomy) of the International Astronomical Union (1979\u20132000)
\n\u2022 \u00a0 American Association for the Advancement of Science (Chairperson-elect, Section D\u2014Astronomy, 1986\u201387, Chairperson, 1987\u20131988, Retiring Chairperson, 1988\u20131989); 1996-1997, Chair-Elect, 1997\u20131998, Chair, 1998\u2013-1999, Retiring Chair; representative to the AAAS from the AAS, 2004-07, 2008-2010, 2010-2013, 2013-2016, 2017-2020; elected member of Electorate Nominating Committee, 2010-2013.<\/span>
\n\u2022 \u00a0 American Association of Physics Teachers (Astronomy Education Committee, 1983\u20131987)
\n\u2022 \u00a0 American Astronomical Society, Astronomy Education Advisory Committee (1990\u20131997); Astronomy News Committee (1991\u20131996); Working Group on Astronomy Education Organizing Committee, 1991\u20131997)
\n\u2022 \u00a0 NASA Astrophysics Council (1990\u20131992)
\n\u2022 \u00a0 I.A.U. Representative to the International Council of Scientific Unions–Committee on Teaching of Science, 1991\u20131994
\n\u2022 \u00a0 American Physical Society (AAPT\/APS Member-at-large, Forum on Education, 1995\u20131997)
\n\u2022 \u00a0 U.S. National Liaison to Commission 46 (Astronomy Education and Development) of the I.A.U. (2000\u2013); Vice-President, 2000\u20132003, President, 2003\u20132006<\/p>\n

Member<\/h2>\n

\u2022 \u00a0 International Astronomical Union
\n\u2022 \u00a0 American Astronomical Society
\n\u2022 \u00a0 American Physical Society (Fellow, 1987\u2013)
\n\u2022 \u00a0 Royal Astronomical Society (Fellow)
\n\u2022 \u00a0 New York Academy of Sciences (Fellow)
\n\u2022 \u00a0 Sigma Xi (President, Williams College Club, 1973\u201374,1996\u2013)
\n\u2022 \u00a0 International Planetarium Society (Fellow, 1992\u2013)
\n\u2022 \u00a0 Astronomical Society of the Pacific
\n\u2022 \u00a0 International Union of Radio Science (URSI) Commission on Radio and Radar Astronomy
\n\u2022 \u00a0 American Association for the Advancement of Science (Fellow, 1984\u2013)
\n\u2022 \u00a0 American Association of Physics Teachers
\n\u2022 \u00a0 Committee on Scientific Inquiry (Fellow, 2010\u2014)<\/p>\n

International Astronomical Union General Assemblies Attended<\/h2>\n

\u2022 \u00a0 Hamburg 1964
\n\u2022 \u00a0 Prague 1967
\n\u2022 \u00a0 Brighton 1970
\n\u2022 \u00a0 Sydney 1973
\n\u2022 \u00a0 Grenoble 1976
\n\u2022 \u00a0 Montreal 1979
\n\u2022 \u00a0 Patras 1982
\n\u2022 \u00a0 Baltimore 1988
\n\u2022 \u00a0 Buenos Aires 1991
\n\u2022 \u00a0 The Hague 1994
\n\u2022 \u00a0 Kyoto 1997
\n\u2022 \u00a0 Manchester 2000
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 Sydney 2003
\n\u2022 \u00a0 Prague 2006
\n\u2022 \u00a0 Rio de Janeiro 2009
\n\u2022 \u00a0 Beijing 2012
\n\u2022 \u00a0 Honolulu 2015
\n\u2022 \u00a0 Vienna (planned) 2018<\/p>\n

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I.A.U. Commissions<\/h2>\n

President, Commission 46 (Astronomy Education and Development) of the International Astronomical Union (2003-2006); Retiring President (2003-2006); U.S. National Liaison to the Commission (now C.C1 Astronomy Education and Development) and its predecessor, The Teaching of Astronomy, (1976\u20132015); https:\/\/www.iau.org\/science\/scientific_bodies\/commissions\/C1\/members\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Chair, Working Group on Solar Eclipses of the International Astronomical Union, Division C Education, Outreach and Heritage and Division E Sun and Heliosphere: https:\/\/www.iau.org\/science\/scientific_bodies\/working_groups\/93\/<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
Member, Johannes Kepler Working Group, IAU Commission 41 (now C.C3) on the History of Astronomy, https:\/\/www.iau.org\/science\/scientific_bodies\/working_groups\/283\/members\/<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
Member, IAU Division C Commission C1 (C.C1) Working Group, Theory and Methods in Astronomy Education,https:\/\/www.iau.org\/science\/scientific_bodies\/working_groups\/257\/<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
Member, IAU Division C Commission C1 (C.C1) Working Group, Network for Astronomy School Education,https:\/\/www.iau.org\/science\/scientific_bodies\/working_groups\/258\/<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
Organizing Committee, International Astronomical Union C.C3 on the History of Astronomy (2015-2018)<\/span><\/div>\n
IAU Working Group on Star Names (2016\u2013), Division C Education, Outreach and Heritage, https:\/\/www.iau.org\/science\/scientific_bodies\/working_groups\/280\/<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n

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Education Advisory Boards<\/h2>\n

\u2022 \u00a0 American Association of Variable Star Observers (NSF Curriculum Grant)
\n\u2022 \u00a0 Hands-On Astrophysics
\n\u2022 \u00a0 Astronomical Society of the Pacific (NSF Curriculum Grant)
\n\u2022 \u00a0 Project ASTRO American Astronomical Society project (NSF Curriculum Grant)
\n\u2022 \u00a0 American Astronomical Society Teacher Resource Agents
\n\u2022 \u00a0 AASTRA Odyssey, a children’s magazine (Cobblestone Publishing)
\n\u2022 \u00a0 World Book Encyclopedia
\n\u2022 \u00a0 Griffith Observatory “Depths of Space” Advisory Board, 2001\u20132006
\n\u2022 \u00a0\u00a0Astronomy Education Review<\/em>\u00a0(National Optical Astronomy Observatories), Council of Advisors, 2002\u20132012
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology<\/em>\u00a0and yearbooks, 1983\u2013<\/p>\n

Research at l’Institut d’Astrophysique, Paris, Observatoire de Paris<\/h2>\n

\u2022 \u00a0 Summers 1962, 1964, 1967, January 1973, summer 1976, fall 1988<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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