Dr. Valerie Rapson, professor of physics and astronomy at SUNY Oneonta, is offering a quick question and answer tutorial on eclipse basics so the public can more fully enjoy the event in Otsego County on April 8.…
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A solar eclipse occurs when the moon partially or completely blocks out the sun and casts a shadow on Earth. The October eclipse is one of two viewable eclipses in the United States during the 2023-2024 academic year. The second eclipse, and a corresponding viewing event on campus, will take place Monday, April 8, 2024.…
IN MEMORIAM: FULL OBITUARY Albert J. Read, 93; Physics Professor Active With SUNY, Community ONEONTA – Albert J. Read, 93, a SUNY Oneonta physics professor who founded the Science Discovery Center, died peacefully at home Saturday, June 29, 2019. He was the founding Director of the Science Discovery Center of Oneonta, renamed in his honor in 2015. Albert was born in Albany to Dr. Albert J. Read and Dana Weitzel Read. He was married to Hazel Roberts Read from 1953…
IN MEMORIAM Albert J. Reid, 93; SUNY Professor Founded Science Discovery Center ONEONTA – Albert J. Read, 93, the SUNY Oneonta physics professor who founded the Science Discovery Center at the college, died Saturday, June 29. Read taught at SUNY Oneonta from 1957 until his retirement in 1985, serving as chair of the physics department from 1983-84. He founded the Science Discovery Center in 1985, serving as director until 2005.…
