Edutopia, October/November 2009 Cool Schools A charter school in the Mojave Desert charts the heavens. It talks about not only the Lewis Center for Educational Research, but what GAVRT was, is, and what it can do for students all over the globe.
Science @ NASA, September 21, 2009 This online article explains how students around the world are helping NASA track the LCROSS spacecraft on its way to the Moon in search of water!
People Magazine, November 18, 2002 Article focuses on Rick Piercy who conceptulaized the Lewis Center for Educational Research after a star party in the desert town of Apple Valley in 1985. (page 126)
Nature Magazine, February 28, 2002 Cassini at Jupiter article made the cover of the magazine. Jim Roller and Bob McLeod of the Lewis Center are coauthors with the JPL Scientists in this article on some ground-based observations of Jupiter's radiation belts. (pages 965, 985-1005)
Mercury Magazine, January/February 2002 Students Contribute to Jupiter Science by Carolyn Seydel (page 28). Article shows a photo of middle school students at Opelika Middle School in Alabama online with the telescope.
Newsletter of the Whakatane Astronomical Society, New Zealand, May 2002 An article written by Bonnie J. Walters for the Ventura County Astronomical Society was published in this international newsletter on GAVRT after a visit by the author to NASA's Deep Space Communication Complex at Goldstone.
Phi Delta KAPPAN, May 2001 Jupiter Quest, A Path to Scientific Discovery (page 683).The authors describe a scientific endeavor that excites students and changes their thought processes as they embark on a journey of discovery.
Astronomy.com, Science News, Our Solar System, May 4, 2001 Listen to the kids by Paul Morledge. Teenage students using a huge radio telescope will report to NASA what they've discovered about Jupiter's radiation belts.
Science Scope, November/December 2000 Meanwhile, back on Earth by Bob Riddle (page 54). GAVRT is mentioned as students collect data from their classrooms while observing the gas giant Jupiter as the Cassini spacecraft flies by.
Office of Space Science, FY 2000 GAVRT is mentioned in this Annual Report's executive summary. A photo of DSS-12 is included in the article. (page 9)
Astronomy.com, Science News, Space Missions, December 3, 2000 Students to Help Cassini Study Jupiter by Vanessa Thomas. As Cassini approaches Jupiter, middle and high school students are making Earth-based observations to aid the spacecraft's investigation of the planet.
Jim Roller and Dr. Michael Klein coauthored a chapter in the “Organizations and Strategies in Astronomy IV” astrophysics and space science library book published in December 2003. Andre’ Heck is the editor at Kluwer Academic Publishers in France. The chapter is entitled, “The GAVRT Partnership: Bringing the Universe to K-12 Classrooms”. This book could be used by researchers, teachers, and students interested in astronomy or space related science.