Workshops

STORI Workshop for Teachers Grades 4-8
Come join us for a week-long, hands-on astronomy workshop that will focus on learning about astronomy.  The Summer Triangle:  Observing, Research, and Inquiry (STORI) is for all teachers who want to learn more about basic astronomy concepts, observing, and current exploration of our Solar System.  STORI is designed to help teachers reach the goals of the Arkansas Science Standards for the grades above.  The workshop is FREE. [offered most years. Not offered for 2008]

WebScopes in the Classroom Workshop for Teachers Grades 7-12
We invite you to join us for a three-day workshop during which time you will be taught how to use robotic telescopes in your classroom to teach Arkansas Science Standards.  The workshop is intended for teachers who want to learn more about observational astronomy using robotic observing techniques.  We will provide housing and lunches as well as the needed computers, books, software, and internet access to our robotic telescopes, all at no cost.  In addition, you will be paid a personal stipend of $180 for your participation in our workshop.  The workshop is FREE. [offered for 2008]

Public Lectures

Two public lecture series are offered by the Arkansas Center for Space and Planetary Sciences.  The Barringer Lecture series, sponsored by the Barringer Crater Company in Arizona, offers two lectures per year, in the Spring and the Fall.  This series brings in speakers from within the USA and occasionally, from abroad.  These are from both academe and from government laboratories.  The talks largely focus on meteorites, asteroids and the craters they make!  The second series, the Arkansas Public Lectures in Space and Planetary Science, is a new series.  It is sponsored by the Space Center and features Space Center faculty speakers.  Lectures will cover a broad range of topics in the space and planetary sciences ranging from astronomy to planets to life to space engineering.

For a list of the current public lectures being offered, please click here.

To view the the public lectures archives, please click here. 

Highway 412 to Mars
This is a description of a field trip that the Space Center has designed for its graduate students.  The trip takes them to sites in Western Oklahoma where there are geological features similar to those found on Mars.  We have posted the specifics of the trip so that other teachers or members of the public may use this as a resource for planning their own field trips. 

Publications

Meteorite magazine:  The quarterly magazine Meteorite, produced by Joel Schiff and his colleagues in Auckland, New Zealand, since 1995, has moved to Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA.  The journal was created to satisfy a growing need for amateurs, collectors, dealers, educators and researchers interested in meteorites to have a forum for communication.  Meteorite hopes to retain the loyalty of its existing authors, subscribers, and advertisers while welcoming the involvement of new colleagues in all categories.  E-mail addresses have been established:  Larry and Nancy Lebofsky (the Editors) can be reached at meteditr@uark.edu; Derek and Hazel Sears (the Publishers) can be reached at metpub@uark.edu.  Magazine details are posted at http://meteoritemag.uark.edu/.

Space Notes:  This is an internal, monthly publication from the Space Center.

Talks to Local Schools and Organizations

In an effort to bring space to the public, researchers and graduate students at the Space Center occasionally give talks to local schools and other organizations.  They can normally be arranged with a few weeks notice.  Please contact Jessica Park at the Space Center at 479.575.7625 for more information. 

For highlights from recent outreach talks, click here.

Visits from Local Schools and Organizations

We also bring school groups and organizations into the Space Center to show them what we are doing.  These visits to the Space Center can normally be arranged with a few weeks notice.  Please contact Jessica Park at the Space Center at 479.575.7625 for more information. 

For highlights from recent Space Center visits, click here.