Host how long have you been here . Guest thirty years. Host what is that entail . Guest im an administrator, teach online classes, over a hundred thousand and those so i keep my arm in teaching online. I do budgets and try to improve outreach for the college the various pigs. Science literacy is a big concern of mine for science students and the general public. Host what did you get interested in astronomy . Guest a little late. Theres always the little kids who had a telescope who traded them up for bigger and bigger. I grew up in big cities with no stars. I got in through physics. Its a gateway drug for strong me. You think wow i can apply physics to the universe and thats cool. Thats how i did it. Whats the connection between the university of arizona and astronomy . Were big astronomy department. Were on the way out of making the word worlds biggest telescope on a football stadium. Its a big business here. Astronomy and optics and related industries are worth about one quarter of a