The Faculty
Dr. Andrew Fraknoi is the chair of the Astronomy Program at Foothill College in California and Senior Educator with the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. He is co-founder and co-editor of the innovative online journal Astronomy Education Review. UPDATE: Andy has just been selected as the recipient of the Richard H. Emmons Award for Excellence in College Astronomy Teaching for 2007.
Dr. Jennifer Grier is a planetary scientist with the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson and is Education Officer of the Division for Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society.
Jane Neuenschwander directs the NASA Educator Resource Center at CET and has been certifying educators to use lunar rocks in their classrooms for eight years. She was a classroom teacher for twelve years and has led professional development programs for a decade.
Dr. Laurie Ruberg, Associate Director of the CET, has led projects such as BioBLAST™ (which involves students designing a biologically-controlled lunarbase), the evaluation of the NASA Explorer Schools project, and NASA's recently concluded Mid-Atlantic Region Space Science Broker (MARSSB) program that facilitates partnerships between scientists and educators.
