MOUNT WILSON SUMMER PROGRAM FOR UNDERGRADUATES
	The Consortium for Undergraduate Research and Education in Astronomy
(CUREA) will offer for the seventh time its summer program in astronomy and
astrophysics, August 7 through 20, 1996.  Undergraduate physics and astronomy
majors, with junior or senior standing, who are considering a career in science
or science teaching are encouraged to apply.
	Staff members and students will live and work on Mount Wilson, in the
San Gabriel Mountains above Los Angeles.  This site, renowned for its superb
atmospheric conditions, is home to the historic 100-inch Hooker Telescope as
well as many smaller telescopes now being used in frontier astronomical re-
search.
	The program will center around a short course in astronomy and astro-
physics with a major hands-on component.  The course will emphasize how our
present understanding of the Sun has been achieved and how it relates to the
astrophysics of all stars.  Students will make intensive daytime use of the
Snow Horizontal Solar Telescope (24-inch aperture and 60-foot focal length),
with its associated powerful grating spectrograph; make both daytime and night-
time observations of a wide variety of celestial objects using a 6-inch 
diffraction-limited refractor; carry out projects at both telescopes using
visual, photographic and CCD detection techniques.  For the first time we will
observe with the 100-inch Hooker Telescope, and with a 24-inch computer-
controlled reflector as well!
	Additional activities will include: short presentations on important
contemporary and historical astronomical topics; special lectures by distin-
guished astronomers; tours of research facilities on the mountain; field trips
to nearby sites.
	The application deadline is April 12, 1996.  The tuition fee is $1375.
This covers all expenses during the two-week program.  Students are responsible
for the cost of their transportation to Burbank, California.  For further
information and application materials, contact:
			Prof. Joseph L. Snider, CUREA Director
			Dept. of Physics
			Oberlin College
			Oberlin OH 44074

			(216) 775-8335
			fsnider@alpha.cc.oberlin.edu