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Margaret Meixner: Thank you, Tom.
Tom Temin: Now, Dr. Meixner, you’re with the Universities Space Research Association – that’s a kind of a third element in this whole setup. Tell us how the program is set up and what the association’s role in it is.
Margaret Meixner: Sure, NASA Ames manages the whole SOFIA project, but they partner with – in tandem with the Universities Space Research Association. And we manage basically that, we bridge the science to the community into the public. So we basically deliver the science.
Tom Temin: Got it. So this is one of many projects that the association is involved with?
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COLUMBIA, Md, April 23, 2021 /PRNewswire/ After making numerous discoveries of how magnetic fields shape our universe, an instrument flying on board the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), is about to get even faster at gathering data.
SOFIA is upgrading the High-resolution Airborne Wideband Camera-Plus, or HAWC+ with four new detectors that will allow it to study magnetic fields in distant galaxies four times faster than its current rate. We want to speed up the pace of scientific discovery, and we can do that by making HAWC+ even better, said Dr. Margaret Meixner, Director of Science Mission Operations at Universities Space Research Association. This upgrade is part of a number of initiatives we re implementing to take SOFIA into the future.
USRA s Erick Young Named Legacy Fellow of the American Astronomical Society
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COLUMBIA, Md., Feb. 22, 2021 /PRNewswire/ USRA s Dr. Erick Young is among the 232 astronomers and astrophysicists honored as Legacy Fellows of the American Astronomical Society (AAS). The honor recognizes contributions toward the society s mission of enhancing and sharing humanity s scientific understanding of the universe.
AAS established an initial group of 200 Legacy Fellows, chosen by its Board of Trustees, to recognize several outstanding scientists. These include past recipients of certain awards from the AAS or its topical Divisions, distinguished AAS elected leaders and volunteer committee members, and previously unrecognized individuals with long histories of outstanding research, teaching, mentoring, and service. Erick was a recipient of the prestigious Van Biesbroeck Award for Astronomy.