Exploring "Hubble's Diverse Universe"

Dr. Jarita Holbrook
John Bahcall Auditorium
1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
November 4, 2009

Be among the first to view the new documentary film "Hubble's Diverse Universe"!

Presented by Dr. Jarita Holbrook, "Hubble's Diverse Universe" (HDU) focuses on eight African American and Hispanic American Astrophysicists. Hear about their scientific research, their education, and their lives as astrophysicists.

Jarita C. Holbrook holds a Ph.D. in Astronomy & Astrophysics and is currently a researcher at the University of Arizona. She is the fourth African American woman to get a Ph.D. in astrophysics in the United States, and during her education was the first African American woman to be graduated in each of her academic departments.

Dr. Holbrook’s current research focuses on the relationship that people in developed nations have with the night sky, astronomers and their changing relationship to the night sky, and the lives of women and minority astronomers.

Dr. Holbrook is the current president of the Association of Women Faculty at the University of Arizona, Vice Chair of the Historical Astronomy Division of the American Astronomical Society, Vice President of the European Society for Cultural Astronomy (SEAC) and on the executive committees of the National Society of Black Physicist (NSBP) and the International Society for Archaeoastronomy and Astronomy in Culture (ISAAC). For IYA2009 she is chair of the Cultural Astronomy & Storytelling group for the United States, and is also the lead editor on "African Cultural Astronomy" published by Springer Press (2008).