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Project Progress

The University of Hawaii (UH)-NAI has established a Visiting Faculty Scholars program that brings external collaborators to work with local researchers. The program will inject a breadth of innovative ideas to the UH-NAI, and strengthen our interdisciplinary research. We have secured a two-bedroom apartment in the University of Hawaii Faculty housing complex across the street from the Institute for Astronomy (IfA) to host our visitors up to three months each year. The director of the Institute for Astronomy has agreed to pay for the other 75% of the year for IfA visitors to make this apartment a viable resource. Further, the IfA has contributed $4,000 toward furnishing the facility. The facility was set up during June, 2004, and our first visitor, Akiva Bar-Nun, has arrived from Tel-Aviv University for a period of two months. Already, there has been considerable interaction among team members with our first visitor. In addition, we have established a visitor committee (NAI team members: Gaidos, Kaiser, and Reipurth), and the IfA has established a visitor committee, and a policy document has been set up regarding criteria for use of the visiting faculty facility. Our team is now entertaining proposals for additional visitors. The committee will meet quarterly, and review applications consisting of a short proposal and a curriculum vitae.

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