{"id":4805,"date":"2012-03-02T17:38:26","date_gmt":"2012-03-03T03:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=4805"},"modified":"2021-04-26T11:03:26","modified_gmt":"2021-04-26T21:03:26","slug":"space-science-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2012\/03\/02\/space-science-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Space science and diversity highlights week of events"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/mcnair.jpg\" alt=\"Claude Onizuka, Carl McNair and Harriet Natsuyama\" title=\" \" width=\"620\" height=\"286\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4865\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/mcnair.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/mcnair-260x119.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span aria-label=\"Ohana\">&#699;Ohana<\/span> Roots to Rocket Science, a project of the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M&#257;noa&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/diversity\/McNair\/\">McNair Student Achievement Program<\/a>, presents a week of events focused on space science and diversity.<\/p>\n<p>Carl McNair and Claude Onizuka will celebrate the heroic legacies of their respective brothers, Ronald McNair and Ellison Onizuka, <abbr>NASA<\/abbr> astronauts who perished in the 1986 <em>Challenger<\/em> mission. They have championed their astronaut brothers as role models and have encouraged students from disadvantaged backgrounds to enter academic programs in science, technology, engineering and math.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span> born astrophysicist Harriet Natsuyama, whose expertise spans computer modeling and applied mathematics as well as ancient systems of astronomy, will deliver a lecture on evolving perspectives of cosmology and consciousness.<\/p>\n<h2>School visits<\/h2>\n<p>To kick off the week of events, McNair and Onizuka will visit two schools on Tuesday, March 6.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>McNair will talk with grade school students at Kamehameha Schools, where curriculum has included <em>Ron&#8217;s Big Mission<\/em>, the children&#8217;s book about McNair coming of age in the segregated South of the 1960&#8217;s. <\/li>\n<li>Onizuka will visit the Challenger Center <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> located at Barbers Point Elementary. Onizuka will talk about his brother&#8217;s success in science and technology.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Public talks<\/h2>\n<h3>Carl McNair and Claude Onizuka<\/h3>\n<p>Thursday, March 8, reception at 5:30 p.m. and lecture at 6:30 p.m. at M&#257;noa&#8217;s Architecture Auditorium, free to the public<\/p>\n<p>McNair and Onizuka will share stories about their respective brothers&#8217; rise from humble roots to eminent careers in science and service to <abbr>NASA<\/abbr>, where they also broke barriers of race. Ronald McNair, a researcher in laser physics, was the second African-American astronaut. Ellison Onizuka, who was recognized for exceptional service with the U.S. Air Force, was the first Japanese-American astronaut.<\/p>\n<h3>Harriet Natsuyama<\/h3>\n<p>Wednesday, March 7, reception at 6 p.m. and lecture at 6:30 p.m., H&#333;k&#363;lani Imaginarium at Windward Community College, free but reservations are required due to limited seating, <a href=\"mailto:imuamcn@hawaii.edu\">email for reservations<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Natsuyama, <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa Distinguished Alumni Award recipient, will trace changes in worldview from ancient to modern societies in her talk, Ancient Star Wisdom and New Horizons. She will discuss bridging ancient people&#8217;s knowledge of voyaging by the stars and modern findings of quantum physics.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/article.php?aId=4958\">news release<\/a> for details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The McNair program features Carl McNair, Claude Onizuka and Harriet Natsuyama in Ohana Roots to Rocket Science.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[9,66],"class_list":["post-4805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-uh-manoa","tag-windward-community-college","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4805"}],"version-history":[{"count":33,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140149,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4805\/revisions\/140149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}