Jamaica
Jamaica featured in IYA2009 Arts Workshop at the famous Arecibo Observatory
Submitted by MrcACrl on 22 August, 2008 - 22:21. Jamaica | North, Central America, and the CaribbeanIn Retrospect: Jamaica's First Yuri's Night
Submitted by MrcACrl on 19 May, 2008 - 20:52. Jamaica | North, Central America, and the Caribbean | Yuri's NightAAJ Annual General Meeting
Submitted by MrcACrl on 13 May, 2008 - 11:32. Jamaica | North, Central America, and the CaribbeanYuri's Night: Jamaica Style!
Submitted by MrcACrl on 11 April, 2008 - 22:57. Jamaica | North, Central America, and the Caribbean | Yuri's NightAstronomical Association of Jamaica (AAJ)
Submitted by MrcACrl on 1 March, 2008 - 00:41. Jamaica | North, Central America, and the CaribbeanThe Astronomical Association of Jamaica (AAJ) was formed in 1948 as an Amateur Astronomical Society. Initially, the AAJ membership comprised persons from all walks of life including Science Professors from the then University College of the West Indies now University of the West Indies, Mona (UWI).
Some six decades later in 2008, the AAJ is still the premier astronomy (Space) group in Jamaica and has been instrumental in taking the distant realm of the extraterrestrial right into the everyday
University of Technology (UTech)
Submitted by MrcACrl on 28 February, 2008 - 12:05. Jamaica | North, Central America, and the CaribbeanFounded in 1958 as the Jamaica Institute of Technology and then renamed in 1959 the College of Arts, Science and Technology (CAST), UTech was fully recognised as a university in 1995. Find out more about UTech here
UTech offers several technology related programmes, particularly in the Faculty of Engineering and Computing, which have application within the Space industry (see here).
University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona Campus
Submitted by MrcACrl on 28 February, 2008 - 11:08. Jamaica | North, Central America, and the CaribbeanThe University of the West Indies (UWI) is the oldest tertiary institution in the Caribbean, starting out in 1948 at the Mona Campus in Kingston, Jamaica as a college of the University of London. It gained full university status in 1962 and has campuses spread across several Caribbean islands. Read more about UWI Mona history here
The UWI Physics Department, a part of the Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences at Mona, conducts research in several areas in the Space domain including GPS Error C
Spy Satellite Shootdown Takes Centre Stage in Jamaican Newspaper
Submitted by MrcACrl on 28 February, 2008 - 10:13. Jamaica | North, Central America, and the CaribbeanJamaica
Jamaica | North, Central America, and the CaribbeanNews and events in Jamaica, as well as a directory of educational and other organisations.
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