No. 14 - Winter 2005: Barnes New Graduate Program Chair


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Deep Impact: The First Look inside a Comet Measuring the Corona's Magnetic Field Manoa Open House, Hilo AstroDay in April IfA Corporate and Friends Giving Programs Faculty Profile: Jeffrey Kuhn New IfA Maui Building Haleakala Long-Range Development Plan Finalized Haleakala Selected for New Solar Telescope Astrobiology Winter School REU Program Extended Hilo Journeys through the Universe 2005 Poster Calendar Barnes New Graduate Program Chair Na Kilo Hoku Staff

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Barnes New Graduate Program Chair

Joshua Barnes: When not at the IfA, he spends his time trying to prevent his one-year-old twin daughters from destroying his collection of Grateful Dead records and tapes.

Joshua Barnes has been appointed chair of the astronomy graduate program. He succeeds Gareth Wynn-Williams, who held the position for nine years. As graduate chair, Barnes is responsible for running the educational aspects of the UH’s Manoa astronomy activities. There are currently 30 graduate students enrolled in the master’s and PhD astronomy programs, with approximately 800 undergraduate students taking astronomy courses from IfA faculty each year.

Barnes, who has a BA from Harvard and a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, has been on the IfA faculty since 1991. He uses computers to predict the outcome of collisions between galaxies. Spectacular animations of these events can be found on his Web site.