suddenly following a heart attack. Barry was an astronomer for almost 40 years, playing an important role in the creation of two of the world’s most highly-respected observatories, the Cerro Tololo Inter-

-reviewed journals and is the basis for final analysis and interpretation is generally not archived and has no permanent repository. We have initiated a project whose goal is to implement an end-to-end prototype system which, through a partnership of a professional society, that society’s scholarly publications

questions and provides a practical "how-to " guide for doing assessment. Assessment drives student learning; it is thus imperative that instructors conduct assessment in a manner that is well aligned with the instructor’s goals for the course. This requires (a) that course goals be formalized, and (b) that the instructor have knowledge of various classroom assessment techniques and the kinds of course goals to which each of these assessment techniques is best suited. We briefly present several Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs) that can be used to help instructors evaluate the extent to which course goals are being achieved, to help guide students toward desired learning outcomes, and to improve student self-evaluation of understanding. In addition, we outline a practical, generalized model for course development with which we demonstrate how to do assessment. For an on-line, user-friendly guide and resource to classroom assessment in college science courses, the reader is invited to visit the Field- Tested Learning Assessment Guide (FLAG) developed by the National Institute for Science Education

The Square Kilometer Array will have the sensitivity, spatial resolution, and frequency resolution to provide new scientific knowledge of evolved stars. Four basic areas of scientific exploration are enhanced by the construction of the SKA: 1) detection and imaging of photospheric radio continuum emission and position correlation with maser distributions, 2) imaging of thermal dust emission around evolved stars and the detailed structures of their circumstellar winds (again, including comparison with maser distributions), 3) study of cm-wavelength molecular line transitions and the circumstellar chemistry around both O-rich and C-rich evolved stars and 4) the possible observation of polarized emission due to the influence of the magnetic fields of AGB stars. Since this short chapter is not meant to be a review article, a comprehensive reference list has not been generated. I have selected just one or perhaps two references for citations where appropriate. 1.

Electronic communication is changing the way astronomers work and how they communicate. By forming teams of people with a wide variety of expertise, taking small steps, being flexible and soliciting the opinion of users, the American Astronomical Society has been successful in several electronic

. The introduction of the first electronic astronomy journal by the American Astronomical Society (AAS) allows scientists to conduct research in a new way; with information available electronically from start to finish. Over the past three years, the AAS developed a comprehensive electronic

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and other research outputs Independent discovery of the transiting exoplanet HAT-P-14b

and other research outputs ¡i¿Herschel¡/i ¿ reveals massive cold clumps in NGC 7538

and other research outputs Class 0 protostars in the Perseus molecular cloud: a correlation between the youngest protostars and the dense gas distribution