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November 30, 2005
CUESTA COLLEGE STUDENTS
REVEAL ASTRONOMICAL MYSTERIES AT EVENING SYMPOSIUMS DECEMBER 6 AND 7
Hear
astronomical mysteries explained in detail by Cuesta College students at
two scientific symposiums in December. The events are scheduled at
Cuesta’s North County Campus and South County Center, and are free and
open to the public.
The first
event is scheduled Tuesday evening, December 6, from 7:00 p.m. to 8:30
p.m. in the Forum at Arroyo Grande High School. Students from Cuesta
College’s Arroyo Grande Center will give presentations on the following:
Ocean Tides, The Case for Life on Mars, Saturn, Black Holes and Time
Travel, and Alien History. The Forum has ample seating capacity, so no
advance reservations are required.
The second event is on Wednesday
evening, December 7, from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. at Cuesta College’s
North County Campus in Room N2401 (the main lecture hall). Cuesta North
County students will give presentations on the following topics: Human
Adaptation for Space, Our One and Only Satellite (the Moon), White Dwarf
Stars, The Fermi Paradox, SETI (the Search for Extraterrestrial
Intelligence), The Mysterious Black Hole, Stellar Evolution, and
Astrology as Star Speech. Reservations are required for this event.
Please call Judy McDaniel or Linda DiBenedetto at (805) 591-6201.
To obtain a
“hands on” feel for how science really works, the students formed teams,
chose a topic to investigate, wrote a scientific paper on their topic
and critiqued papers from two other teams. The final student papers were
assembled into the nearly 100-page published symposium proceedings by
student co-editors Vera Wallen and Wendall Schiffman.
The culmination of the students'
research projects will be their presentations at these public
symposiums. Refreshments will be served after the presentations and
students will be available to discuss their projects.
For more
information, contact Russ Genet at 438-3305.
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