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The Sound of Light

Kate on the left and Ashley on the right smiling at the camera. Behind them is a chalkboard filled with mathematical equations.

GLAS director Kate Meredith and GLAS team member Ashley Wimer returned Dec. 17 from their trip to Leiden, the Netherlands, for The Audible Universe 2 conference at Leiden University’s Lorentz Center. About 30 researchers from around the world attended the conference from Dec. 12 to 16. The researchers are involved with sonification, the process of […]

Mental Health by Starlight

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If you’re feeling stressed or depressed, look up at the night sky. It could be relaxing and a relief from the pressures of daily life. The International Astronomical Union’s Office of Astronomy for Development (OAD) is researching a connection between astronomy and mental health. We are creatures of nature, and turning our interests to nature […]

GLAS’ 2022 Moonlight Fundraiser

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“Oh, the moon has a face and it shines on the lake …” Warren Zevon About 80 GLAS Education supporters and friends boarded Lake Geneva Cruise Line’s Belle of the Lake for a three-hour Moonlight Cruise of Geneva Lake with guided tours of the night sky and constellations on Oct. 1. The cruise promoted GLAS […]

Chelsea Cook Helps GLAS with Accessibility Projects

Young brown-haired woman in green sleeveless blouse and blue slacks and young man in backwards baseball cap, brightly-colored Hawaiian shirt and white shorts stand in front of steel plug plate used to demonstrate astronomical distances and redshift to blind and visually impaired.

Chelsea Cook holds the title of solution engineer in the state of Colorado’s Office of Information Technology. Now living in Denver, she’s worked on the state’s accessible website for the blind and visually impaired. Soon, she will be a liaison to the state’s various departments as they develop their own accessible websites. Chelsea said Colorado […]

NaviLens Video

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Zach Meredith, a GLAS Education staff member, presented a 90-second video explaining GLAS Education’s efforts to make its office space user-friendly for the blind and visually impaired during a July 26 presentation. Zach did most of the filming and handled the editing and sound. Interns Daniel Feng and Alex Scerba also assisted with the video. […]

Midwest Space Grant Conference July 25-26th

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GLAS Education director and CEO Kate Meredith and GLAS marketing director Katie Corbett led two workshops on making science accessible to everyone during the Midwest Regional Space Grant Consortium Conference at the Wingspread Retreat and Executive Conference Center in Racine on July 25-26. The Midwest consortium conference included consortium directors from Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Indiana, […]

Zach SDSS Plug Plate Presentation

Young man in backwards baseball cap, dark blue T-shirt and red shorts talking to dark-haired woman wearing glasses, a red dress and white sweater near an astronomical plug plate plug plate exhibit.

Three years ago, Zach Meredith, then an intern at GLAS Education, was part of the team that started the plug plate project funded by a grant from the Wisconsin Space Grant Consortium. The plug plate project is pretty straightforward. Find a way to use sonification to give the blind and visually impaired an idea of the […]

Ashley Sonification Intern Presentation

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Ashley Wimer of GLAS Education is deep diving into the grant process for research into sonification. “The search is on now to find which funding programs are available,” she said. “Sonification is the process of taking visual data and turning it into sound,” Ashley said during a presentation at GLAS Education on July 20. GLAS […]

Daniel Dark Skies Office Intern Presentation

Two young men in shorts flanking a dark-haired woman in a short summer skirt, arms folded over blue GLAS Education T-shirts, standing in front of the entry sign to the Christine Center.

Daniel Feng is working on projects to help a local community and a spiritual retreat in northern Wisconsin to evaluate their needs for responsible lighting. Daniel is an intern working on GLAS Education’s Dark Skies Office project. Its goals are to reduce light pollution and promote healthy Dark Skies around the state. Over a weekend […]

Alex LENSS Intern Presentation

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Light sensors are at the heart of GLAS Education’s efforts at dark sky education.Alex Scerba, a GLAS Education intern, is designing improvements to the sensors, increasing their durability and their weatherproofing, while reducing their size and perhaps even their cost.Alex gave an update on his design improvements during a July 13 presentation. Scerba said that […]

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