Jack Hassard

Project Green Classroom

Posted by Jack Hassard | May 8, 2007 | Environment

This has been a year so far where the concept of “green” is moving into the mainstream, and is no longer relegated to “environmental activists.” However, we need to remind ourselves that it was the...

Air Quality Awareness

Posted by Jack Hassard | May 2, 2007 | Environment

This week is the EPA’s Air Quality Awareness Week. And it was a good choice of weeks to select as the ground-level ozone season has begun in Atlanta, and other cities, I am sure. I live in the Atlanta area, and yesterday...

Gliese 581c Inhabitants Visit Earth: Mission to the Blue Planet

Posted by Jack Hassard | May 1, 2007

As this week’s Newsweek article said, if you are Looking for Life? Try Gliese 581c. It turns out that astronomer at the European Southern Observatory in Chile indirectly inferred the existence of an earth-like planet...

Mission to the Blue Planet

Posted by Jack Hassard | Apr 30, 2007 | Space Science

Last week, astronomers in Europe announced the discovery of an Earth-like planet outside of our Solar System. It was discovered this month, and it orbits the star Gliese 581, which is a red dwarf star located a little more than...

The Value of Student-to-Student Exchanges

Posted by Jack Hassard | Apr 24, 2007 | Citizen Scientists, Technology

For nearly 20 years, I was involved with a project that started in the 1980’s with people to people exchanges between educators and psychologists in North America with colleagues in the Soviet Union. We made annual visits...