Astronomy and Physics Specialty

Held each Summer at the University of Tennessee, this one month program is offered to gifted High School Students from Tennessee as an opportunity to attend College level courses. This division of the program is presented by the Department of Physics and Astronomy, located in the Alvin H. Nielson Physics Building on the main campus in Knoxville.  ************************************* This course uses a college level textbook entitled The Cosmic Perspective. This class includes laboratories as well as lectures. The lab manual is produced by the UT faculty in concordance with the CLEA Computer Labs at Gettysburg College.  For other Astronomy resources please visit these Astronomy Links. ************************************ There are online lecture notes for most of the material covered in the GS course and can be found under Astronomy 161 and 162 Notes. ********** The class has a  Newsgroup to email each other and the Physics staff. ********** The Online Journey Through Astronomy link is now available!!!!! ********** The daily syllabus for the Summer 2001 class can be found here. *********************************** The course is taught by Dr. Steve Daunt who is an astronomer and member of the UT Complex Systems Lab group. He is assisted by teaching assistants from our department. This summer they will be Ms. Debbie Price (2nd degree candidate) and Mr. Wesley Robertson (Just graduated Physics Major and now UT grad student). Special observing sessions will be supervised by Mr. Paul Lewis who is the Director of Outreach Programs and the NASA Teachers Resource Distribution Center for UTK Physics & Astronomy. Biographical sketches are available from the Governor's School home page. Go to Faculty & Staff link.