Public Outreach
Boise State’s First Friday Astronomy Event Schedule for Summer 2026. Our guests will be
- May 1 – Dr. Ellie Hara, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute – From Stardust to Cells: The Unsolved Mystery of Life’s Origin
- Jun 5 – Dr. Racine Cleveland, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Boise State University – Of Dunes and Ice: A Surface-Atmosphere Investigation on Planetary Bodies – racinecleveland.com
- Jul 3 – Kirk Long, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Colorado Boulder – How to Weigh a Supermassive Black Hole: Insights From Quasars Across Cosmic Time
- Aug 7 – Dr. Kathryn Gardner-Vandy, Associate Professor of Aviation & Space, Oklahoma State University – Meteorites: The Storytellers of our Solar System – experts.okstate.edu/kat.gardner-vandy
Join Boise State Physics in summer 2025 for our internationally-renowned First Friday Astronomy programs. They take place on the first Friday of every month at 7:30p MT in the Education Building (https://maps.boisestate.edu/?id=715#!m/89069), room 101 or online at boi.st/astrobroncoslive.
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Among different fields of science, astronomy has a unique history of citizen science projects. In the last few decades, the advent of user-friendly software and web infrastructure, as well as off-the-shelf research-grade instrumentation, has led to a golden age of citizen science astronomy. Opportunities for amateurs to contribute meaningfully to astronomical research have never been more plentiful.
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