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GAM 2016 BlogASTRONOMY AND ITS IMPACT UPON A SCHOOL COMMUNITY
By Murray Henstock This is the 6th GAM article for the Diverse Universe Week , Monday 18 to Sunday 24 April 2016. This week's posts on the GAM Blog will focus on the diversity of the global astronomy community. How can students from diverse backgrounds access a universal world of wonder that cares not for where you come from. Nor does it make discriminations based on creed, race, religion or preference. The sky is there for everyone. It blankets us all as one community as it shows us all one past and an infinite array of possibilities for the future....
Greetings From The Coldest Place on Earth!
By Christine Corbett Moran This is the 5th GAM article for the Diverse Universe Week , Monday 18 to Sunday 24 April 2016. This week's posts on the GAM Blog will focus on the diversity of the global astronomy community. I am currently working as a “winterover” on the South Pole Telescope (SPT) onsite at the South Pole in Antarctica for January-November 2016. No one can arrive or leave from February-October due to it being too cold for planes to land. In the winter months, 40-50 people (this year it's 48) stay over to keep the base and scientific operations...
New stars in the sky
By Hatim Madani This is the 4th GAM article for the Diverse Universe Week , Monday 18 to Sunday 24 April 2016. This week's posts on the GAM Blog will focus on the diversity of the global astronomy community. By launching the Name Exoworlds competition in 2015, the International Astronomical Union achieved an outstanding communication campaign offering to the general public, for the first time in history, the opportunity to choose names of stars and exoplanets proposed by clubs and associations of astronomy around the world. With more than 274 proposed names submitted by clubs, associations and universities representing 45...
Celebrating Astronomy Worldwide
By Daniela De Paulis This is the 3nd GAM article for the Diverse Universe week , Monday 18 to Sunday 24 April 2016. This week's posts on the GAM Blog will focus on the diversity of the global astronomy community. OPTICKS 2015, credits Daniela de Paulis/CAMRAS Global Astronomy Month is a time for celebrating astronomy worldwide and emphasizing its global value and appeal, regardless of cultural and geographical boundaries. It is also a time for all of us at Astronomers Without Borders to look back at the work done over the last year and see how it can be improved....
Sharing our Cosmic Light - astronomy for inclusion efforts
By Lina Canas This is the 2nd GAM article for the Diverse Universe week , Monday 18 to Sunday 24 April 2016. This week's posts on the GAM Blog will focus on the diversity of the global astronomy community. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that “Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits.” (Article 27(1)). This is the opening quote under IAU Working Group Astronomy for Equity and Inclusion (WG3) led by Amelia Ortiz-Gil (Chair) and Beatriz Garcia (Co-Chair)....
