LWA - Education and Public Outreach

The LWA is being constructed by the Southwest Consortium which includes: The University of New Mexico, University of Texas at Austin, Los Alamos National Laboratory and The Naval Research Laboratory.

The Southwest Consortium endorses education and outreach as an integral part of its commitment to technology development and scientific discovery. The Consortium encourages its members to seek ways to share the excitement of their research with the general public in order to support the following goals: sharing scientific results with the taxpayers who fund them, increasing general scientific literacy, and sparking interest in the students who will become the next generation of engineers and scientists. We are particularly committed to reaching underserved populations, including students from rural schools, Hispanic and Native American students, and their families.

Potential LWA "North Arm" site - March 2007 Pieces of Big Blade and test equipment are jammed inside the station wagon. On the left is Ted Jaeger, astronomy graduate student at U. Iowa and to the right is Stefanie Gallegos, a Junior at UNM, majoring in Physics/Astronomy.

RadioIinterference Testing at the "North Arm" site - March 2007

The following Workshop was geared towards graduate students and postdocs in astrophysics.

10th Summer Synthesis Imaging Workshop
was held June 13-20, 2006
at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque NM, USA