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)
Past Funding
WWT Ambassadors program began through funding and generous support by Miscrosoft Research and the John Templeton Foundation.
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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