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Jeffrey Mangum
NRAO Scientist Named Editor of Respected Astronomy Journal
November 19, 2012 at 4:27 pm | Announcement

Jeffrey Mangum, a scientist at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory headquarters in Charlottesville, Virginia, has been appointed Editor of the Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, a peer-reviewed scientific journal.

Famous Radio Telescope Officially Gets New Name
Famous Radio Telescope Officially Gets New Name
March 31, 2012 at 3:15 pm | Announcement

Astronomers and officials from around the globe gathered on the high desert of New Mexico Saturday to officially bestow a new name on the world’s most famous radio telescope and to mark its transformation into a new and vastly more powerful tool for science.

Anthony J. Beasley
Anthony Beasley Appointed Director of NRAO
February 24, 2012 at 2:55 pm | Announcement

Anthony J Beasley has been appointed as the next Director of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, according to Ethan J Schreier, President of Associated Universities, Inc.

Eduardo Hardy, Carl Pennypacker, and Juan Carlos Avendano
NRAO, AUI Join Chilean Educational Project
October 21, 2011 at 8:20 pm | Announcement

The National Radio Astronomy Observatory and Associated Universities, Inc, joined the National Copper Corporation of Chile and the Center for Educational Innovation of the University of Antofagasta in a project to build a center for training teachers from throughout Chile in astronomy and science.

The Very Large Array
Observatory Seeks a New Name
October 13, 2011 at 8:17 pm | Announcement

The most famous radio telescope in the world is about to get a new name. The Very Large Array, known around the world, isn’t what it used to be. The iconic radio telescope, known around the world through movies, documentaries, music videos, newspaper and magazine articles, advertisements, textbooks, and thousands of scientific papers, is nearing the completion of an amazing transformation.

Mari Jananian, Emmanuel Momjian, and Patti JMK Reynolds.
U.S. Citizens Ceremony at VLA
September 22, 2011 at 7:47 pm | Announcement

A Socorro astronomer and his wife were sworn in as new U.S. Citizens in a ceremony at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory’s Very Large Array radio telescope Wednesday. Dr. Emmanuel Momjian and his wife, Mari Jananian, took the oath of allegiance at a special event conducted by Peter Rechkemmer of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, with the oath administered by Patti JMK Reynolds, Albuquerque Field Office Director of the USCIS.

Dr. Dale Frail
NRAO Astronomer Wins Prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship
April 15, 2010 at 6:43 pm | Announcement

Dr Dale Frail, an astronomer at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Socorro, New Mexico, has been awarded a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship, according to the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

Three ALMA antennas
ALMA Test Sharpens the Vision of New Observatory
January 4, 2010 at 7:18 pm | Announcement

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array has passed a key milestone crucial to producing the high-quality images that will be the trademark of this revolutionary new tool for astronomy.

ALMA antenna enroute to high plateau of Chajnantor
ALMA Telescope Reaches New Heights
September 23, 2009 at 6:02 pm | Announcement

The ALMA astronomical observatory took another step forward and upward, as one of its state-of-the-art antennas was carried for the first time to Chile’s 16,500-foot-high plateau of Chajnantor on the back of a giant, custom-built transporter.

ALMA Telescope Makes Successful Antenna Link
ALMA Telescope Makes Successful Antenna Link
April 30, 2009 at 5:46 pm | Announcement

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, an immense international telescope project under construction in northern Chile, reached a major milestone on April 30, when two ALMA antennas were linked together as an integrated system to observe an astronomical object for the first time.

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