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By Gwen Olson golson@kansan.com Kansaon staff writer
Program introduces college to children
Lawrence grade schoolers have a chance to learn more about college life this semester by seeing it first-hand.
The Center for Community Outreach's College Bound program matches college students with a fourth-, fifth- or sixth-grade class to help the students understand more about college experiences.
Volunteers also will teach the students about the decisions made at college. For example, the students will create a sample schedule of college classes.
"We want to show them what they can study and give them options for college," said Angie Strathman, Seneca senior and co-coordinator for the program.
"We are going to schools where kids would usually be first-generation college students," said Jamie Najim, Wichita senior and co-director of the center. "Each student is
Grade schoolers college bound
This is the first year of the program at the University of Kansas, but College Bound is active in more than 45 universities nationwide.
Volunteers will visit classes six times. On the last visit, the classes will visit campus and be given tours by their volunteers.
assigned to one classroom of about 25 to 30 kids."
The program was started by the McBride Foundation in an effort to reduce adolescent crime and dropout rates. The
informational meetings will be held for students interested in volunteering at local elementary schools.
■ 6:30 p.m. Sept. 9 at the Oread Room in the Kansas Union
■ 7 p.m. Sept. 10 at the Kansas Room in the Kansas Union
For more information, call the Center for Community Outreach at 864-4073
Outreach info
For more information, call the Center for Community Outreach at 846-4073-8751
foundation will train volunteers on Oct. 1.
Najim said she expected a good turnout for the program and that she was excited to get things started.
"It's such an awesome way for college students to share a part of their life," she said. "Kids get so excited about having a KU connection."
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Gene Holland, Russell Junior, and Tom Armstrong, a Professor of Physics / Astronomy. Holland developed a software program that processes data sent from orbiting satellites. Photo by Eric B. Howell/KANSAN
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The Sniv is busily crunching numbers in the basement of Malet Hall
Holland spent about 30 hours a week at his student hourly job in the basement of Malot. He was hired the summer before his freshman year.
By Daniel E Thompson
dhomme@kansan.com
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Gene Holland, also known as "The Sniv" or the Sniveling Undergraduate, has designed software to analyze data from ACE, the Advanced Composition Explorer. ACE is a $120 million spacecraft that the National Aeronautics and Space Association launched Aug. 25th to analyze materials flying around the solar system.
"When I first started with this stuff it was nuts. I'm an undergraduate and I'm expected to know all these terms. It's a huge learning curve. Scientists can't communicate to everyone; I don't consider myself a scientist." Holland said.
Holland just turned 21.
"I hired him on the spot," said Tom
Armstrong, professor of physics and astronomy.
Holland initially worked as an apprentice to a graduate student
Once there, an instrument on ACE called the EPAM, or Energetic Particle Anisotropy Monitor, will start looking at space "weather."
"If people have an interest, clarity of purpose and a good academic track record, we can work with this. You don't need a lot of space physics experience," he said.
ACE is headed to Lograngion 1, or Li, the place where the gravitational pull of the earth is equal to that of the sun. Armstrong said.
Holland's software enables scientists to read data from ACE.
"ACE is not a satellite of anything." Armstrong said. "It is somewhat loosely bound to earth. It will be in a loopy orbit for awhile."
Instead of looking at rain and wind, Armstrong explains, EPAM will be
"It's about 800,000 miles down the river toward the sun," he said.
"They are both identical instruments, but ACE and Ulysses are different," Holland said.
Because the same software program, called Archive Generator, runs calculations on data from both spacecraft, the information from ACE must be in the same order as that from Uvsses.
The goal of the program is to predict the effects of solar weather on earth. "The consequence of solar weather is an earth disturbance," he said.
Ulysses, another NASA spacecraft with an instrument identical to EPAM, is already at L1. Ulysses was launched in October of 1990. ACE's EPAM was a spare.
Armstrong said a major 1989 power outage in Quebec caused such a disturbance. A solar flare caused the voltage to surge.
monitoring radiation from the sun and cosmic rays from outside our solar system.
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