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Mercury
Magazine Contents
Vol. 24 No. 3
May/June 1995
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Clusters, Lensing, and the Future of
the Universe, by Virginia Trimble and George Musser
Be thankful the universe is clumpy. Otherwise we'd all be single
atoms in eternal solitude. But how did the universe get that
way when it used to be as smooth as White Rush ice cream? Recent
discoveries only deepen the mystery. |
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Special Report: American Minorities
in Astronomy
There are about 15 African-American professional astronomers
in the United States. Not 15 percent, fifteen. Latinos
and Native Americans are similarly underrepresented. Those who
make it not only must run the usual gauntlet of school, college,
graduate school, and the job market; they must jump extra hurdles
that can include poverty, discrimination, isolation, expectations
of failure, and the burden of "representing" their
ethnic group to their profession and their profession to their
ethnic group.
Over the past two decades, astronomers have worked to improve
women's representation in their profession. What can we do
to support American minority groups? Mercury has asked astronomers,
educators, and students from various perspectives to comment.
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Overviews
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Jill S. Price and Abigail A. Hafer - Some Gains, a Long
Way to Go
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Kristine M. Larsen - Participation in Science by Minorities
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Mercedes T. Richards - Underrepresented Groups in Astronomy
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Experiences
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Dian B. Curran - No Matter What Others Think, You Can
Reach the Stars
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Darryl Stanford - From "Guerrilla Astronomer"
to Department Chair
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Turja Banks - Astronomy In My Life
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Doug Ingram - The Trailblazers
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Robert L. Ashford - What Are Those Dots on the Sun,
Mister?
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Kristine M. Larsen - An Interview With Ronald L. Mallett
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Outreach Programs
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George R. Carruthers - Outreach Programs for African-American
Students in Washington, D.C.
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Kenneth MacKay - MESA: Pre-college Support for Minority
Students
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Kristine M. Larsen - Programs for American Minority
Students in Science
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White Attitudes
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Geoffrey C. Clayton - Astronomy in the '90s: Angry,
White, and Male?
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Education
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Patricia A. Gutierrez - Empowering Students with Science
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Joseph D. Ciparick - The Role of Culture in Science
Education
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Paul H. Knappenberger Jr. - Addressing Diversity in
Planetarium Audiences
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Departments
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Editorial,
by George Musser |
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Letters to the Editor |
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Society News |
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Sky Calendars |
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World
Beat: Muslim Moon-Sightings,
by Imad A. Ahmad and S. Khalid Shaukat
Astronomy retains a vital role in Islam, as holidays start and
end depending on the phase of the Moon. If you don't see the
crescent, you can't eat the feast or open the presents. |
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Echoes of the Past, by Katherine Bracher
In 1795, if you needed to know the time of sunrise or the next
eclipse, you could look it up in Banneker's Almanac, for
the Year 1795: Being the Third after Leap Year. It was
the work of Benjamin Banneker, the first African-American astronomer.
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Bruce Medalist Profile: Carl V.L. Charlier,
by Joseph S. Tenn
Carl Charlier counted stars and nebulae for a living. Bland
though it might sound, his statistical analysis showed that
the universe could consist of gargantuan superclusters -- an
idea decades ahead of its time. |
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Book Review, by Mart de Groot
Cosmic Enigmas by Joseph Silk. At Home in
the Universe by John Archibald Wheeler. |
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Last Page, by Bob Thaves
"Frank & Ernest" |
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