Funding
Current Funding
The WWT Ambassadors program is currently funded through the NSF-supported, science education research and curricula development project called ThinkSpace as well as a NASA-CAN parternship with WGBH. The following awards support WWT Ambassadors projects:
- Thinking Spatially about the Universe - A Physical and Virtual Laboratory for Middle School Science (NSF 1502798 and NSF 1503395)
- Bringing the Universe to America’s Classrooms, NASA-CAN (Award No. NNX16AD71A)
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Past Funding
WWT Ambassadors program began through funding and generous support by Miscrosoft Research and the John Templeton Foundation.
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The following John Templeton Foundation awards have supported WWT Ambassadors projects:
- Cultivating Curiosity with Life in the Universe Inquiry Lab (LITU): Alyssa Goodman & Pat Udomprasert (NS-58380)
The following NSF awards have supported WWT Ambassadors projects:
- Building an Understanding of Astronomical Sizes and Scales with WorldWide Telescope: Edwin Ladd (DUE-1140440)
- EAGER: A Prototype WorldWide Telescope Visualization Lab Designed in the Web-based Inquiry Science Environment: Alyssa Goodman (IIS-1254535)
The following NSF awards used WWT or WWTA for their outreach component:
- PostDoctoral Research Fellowship: Philip Rosenfield, (NSF 1501205)
- PostDoctoral Research Fellowship: Abigail Vieregg, (NSF 1103553)
- CAREER: Sharing Deep CMB Maps for Cosmological Discovery, John Kovac, (NSF-CAREER 125535)
- The Massive Black Hole at the Center of the Galaxy and its Immediate Environment, Northwestern University (AST-1109753)
- Management and Operation of the Virtual Astronomical Observatory, VAO Team (AST-0834235)
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