Outreach

• Highschool visits on request.
  Recent visits:
  • Beaver High School on January 16, 2003, to speak about Black Holes.
  • Woodland Hills High School on February 27, 2003, as a participant in the Women in Science series.
  • Beaver High School on May 18, 2006, to speak about Black Holes.
• Highschool-level workshops held at the Duquesne Campus.
  Recent and upcoming workshops:
  • Pennsylvania Junior Academy of Science Fall Saturday Workshop Series. "The Age of the Universe", ongoing, offered annually in mid-September.
  • Odyssey Workshop Series, sponsored by Johns Hopkins University, and hosted by Duquesne University in April 2001 and April 2003. "A case of extreme gravity".
• General-audience presentations.
  Recent and upcoming presentations:
  • Light 101 at the Carnegie Museum of Art Lunch & Learn series, complementing the Light! exhibition, May 17, 2001
  • Einstein and relativity at the Cafe Scientifique Pittsburgh, March 7, 2005.
  • Big Bang theory at the Tree of Life Synagogue Men's Club, Pittsburgh, March 27, 2005.
  • Einstein Centennial 1905-2005 at the meeting of the Alcoa Chapter of Sigma Xi, May 12, 2005.
  • Astrogravitational effects: Einstein's legacy at the Allegheny Observatory, Pittsburgh, August 19, 2005.