Bruce Balick, “Aliens, Part 1,” September 19, 2024

When

September 19, 2024    
7:00 am - 8:30 am

Event Type

Join the University Sunrise Rotary Club for a program featuring University of Washington Astronly Professor Emeritus Bruce Balick.

The program will be presented in-person and on Zoom on Thursday morning informally beginning at 7 a.m. The formal meeting including the program runs from 7:30-8:30 a.m. No registration is required, and the program is free.

The in-person meeting will be at the Wedgwood Community Church at 8201 30th Ave NE, Seattle. The meeting will also be available via Zoom. You can click here to join the Zoom meeting


Bruce Balick, Professor Emeritus, Astronomy, University of Washington
Bruce Balick, Professor Emeritus, Astronomy, University of Washington

Balick joined the UW Astronomy Department in 1975. Subsequently he served as its chair, became active in faculty governance, and participated in the design of new instrumentation for Hubble. Since his retirement in 2014, Balick continues to publish research papers using data from the Hubble Space Telescope and to supervise astronomy undergraduates in research and public outreach.

He is a coauthor on a research paper based on one of the newly released images from the James Webb telescope.