CSM Professor of Astronomy Darryl Stanford and Lab Technician Dean Drumheller have been selected to participate in the NASA/Infrared Processing and Analysis Center Teacher Archive Research Program.

Professor Darryl Stanford and Lab Technician Dean Drumheller

Astronomy Professor Darryl Stanford and Lab Technician Dean Drumheller

They will be part of a team with Sally Seebode, a science teacher from San Mateo High School, and her students, in conducting sophisticated astronomy research on a mysterious binary star systems. The “San Mateo Team” will be working with Steve Howell from the National Optical Astronomy Observatory in Tucson, Arizona. Stanford, Drumheller and Seebode are three of only 14 middle school, high school and community college faculty/staff members selected for the program nationwide.