HIGH-TECH PLANETARIUM OPENS GLENDALE SCORES A COUP.Byline: Naush Boghossian Staff Writer GLENDALE - More than a year after breaking ground, Glendale Community College Glendale Community College can refer to one of two colleges in the United States.
(UNIV) → aula lecture hall lecture n → amphithéâtre m that will serve as a regional training ground for teachers. ``All our science facilities have been renovated, and now we have facilities that are state-of-the-art,'' said Jean Lecuyer, director of the science center and physics professor. ``Everything has Internet access See how to access the Internet. , equipment is being renovated extensively, and because of state funding we're able to buy things that we could only dream of before,'' she said. The Science Center Complex consists of four buildings - two renovated and two new facilities - that were funded through the school's facilities bond, donations, and federal and state funding. The new Cimmarusti Science Building bears the name of philanthropists and brothers Ralph and Larry Cimmarusti, who donated do·nate v. do·nat·ed, do·nat·ing, do·nates v.tr. To present as a gift to a fund or cause; contribute. v.intr. To make a contribution to a fund or cause. $1 million to the project. Classes are already being held in the new facilities, but the school is still waiting for new equipment for the labs. ``Starting in the spring we will have the kind of computer-based classes we're planning to hold,'' Lecuyer said. Jim Brown
James Nathaniel Brown (born February 17, 1936) is an American former professional football player who has also made his mark as an actor and social activist. , superintendent of the Glendale Unified School District The Glendale Unified School District is a school district based in Glendale, California, United States. The school district serves the city of Glendale, portions of the city of La Cañada and the unincorporated communities of Montrose and La Crescenta. , said the college facility has great potential to improve K-12 science education in the district. The complex will be the site of teacher training and joint projects with faculty and students from local schools. Computers in the science center will be connected to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory “JPL” redirects here. For other uses, see JPL (disambiguation). Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is a NASA research center located in the cities of Pasadena and La Cañada Flintridge, near Los Angeles, California, USA. to allow students to access a wide array of satellite data to study the Earth and other planets in the universe. ``There will be a number of opportunities for students at various levels to visit the science center, particularly the planetarium,'' said Brown, the Glendale schools superintendent. ``So that certainly will be a wonderful addition to the resources that are available to students in our district.'' ``In addition to that,'' he said, ``the college does provide for some of our high school students to take courses on the campus, so they will more directly benefit from the kinds of courses ... not be available at our schools.'' The 64,420-square-foot science center will be equipped with a seismographic seis·mo·graph n. An instrument for automatically detecting and recording the intensity, direction, and duration of a movement of the ground, especially of an earthquake. and global-positioning system station for earthquake and weather study and a 48-seat planetarium. The exhibition hall inside the science center will be used to educate the public on physical phenomena and will feature an energy conservation display, which shows how solar panels on the roof of the building - donated by Glendale Water and Power - will generate electricity to power the facility. Each seat in big lecture halls will be equipped with plugs for computers and Internet access. Laboratories will also be computerized computerized adapted for analysis, storage and retrieval on a computer. computerized axial tomography see computed tomography. and teachers will have the capability to do multimedia presentations. The college also celebrated its 75th anniversary Sunday. In 1927 voters approved the junior college district that became Glendale Community College. Naush Boghossian, (818) 546-3306 naush.boghossian(at)dailynews.com CAPTION(S): 2 photos Photo: (1) Stellar objects are projected onto the domed ceiling of Glendale's new digital planetarium. (2) At Glendale Community College, the new Science Center Complex is dedicated Sunday. David Sprague/Staff Photographer |
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