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Larry A. Lebofsky
Larry A. Lebofsky
Senior Research Scientist (Retired), Solar system astronomy
Ph.D., 1974, MIT

Lunar and Planetary Lab
University of Arizona
Tucson AZ 85721

520.621.6947
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Larry Lebofsky is now involved with science education outreach nearly full time. He is the Education Officer for the Division for Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society. He is also on the program committee and is district representative (Pima County) for the Arizona Science Teachers Association, and serves on the advisory boards for the local ASTRO and UA Space Grant programs as well as the national Challenger Center Board. He is the Director of the UA/NASA Regional Educator Resource Center located in LPL. Each summer he coordinates several workshops for K-12 teachers and is involved with the development of many hands-on astronomy-related actvities.

Since 1990, Lebofsky has inserviced over 300 K-12 teachers. In partnership with staff and classroom teachers, he has given over 75 presentations at 11 professional science and aerospace meetings and over 30 national and regional science teacher meetings. Through these presentations he has reached over 4500 teachers with hands-on activities. Lebofsky has authored or co-authored a book, a book chapter, 4 refereed articles in science education journals, 2 invited articles, and both written and video curriculum materials.

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