November Meeting with Howard Chun

Formerly an aerospace engineer at GE Astro Space Division is currently a high school physics teacher at Cranston East High School. He teaches physics through authentic astronomy research. The students have monitored sunspots, searched for novae in M31 and analyzed spectra from AGNs. Last October he was selected to run a pilot Spitzer Space Telescope teacher research program. His research has been in the areas of far infra red spectra of a dust cloud surrounding a super massive black hole and to hunt for infrared signatures of brown dwarfs in a cataclysmic binary star system.
  • Howard Chun at November 2005 Meeting
  • Howard Chun