{"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":"Reading time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

\"Claude<\/p>\n

ʻOhana<\/span> Roots to Rocket Science, a project of the University of Hawaiʻi<\/span> at Mānoa’s McNair Student Achievement Program<\/a>, presents a week of events focused on space science and diversity.<\/p>\n

Carl McNair and Claude Onizuka will celebrate the heroic legacies of their respective brothers, Ronald McNair and Ellison Onizuka, NASA<\/abbr> astronauts who perished in the 1986 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

In addition, Oʻahu<\/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

School visits<\/h2>\n

To kick off the week of events, McNair and Onizuka will visit two schools on Tuesday, March 6.<\/p>\n