15/3/817 Guide to the Illinois Astronomy Pre-Prints Illinois Astronomy Pre-Prints

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Guide to the Illinois Astronomy Pre-Prints 1982/9999 University of Illinois Archives Overview of the Collection Illinois Astronomy Pre-Prints 1982- 15/3/817 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Department of Astronomy 1.00 English University of Illinois Archives
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Historical Note:

Instruction in astronomy commenced in 1892 as an offering of the Mathematics Department.1 In August 1921, the Board of Trustees authorized that the Division of Astronomy in the Department of Mathematics be organized as a separate Department of Astronomy.2 In 1957, the Department began a program of cooperative investigation with the United States Office of Naval Research3 and, in 1962, the radio telescope site at Vermilion River Observatory was completed.4 The courses offered range from descriptive astronomy to aeronomy,5 with B.S.,6 M.S. and Ph.D. degrees offered.7

1. Catalogs and Registers, 1892-93, p. 57.

2. Board of Trustees Transactions, 34th Report, August 1, 1921, p. 17.

3. Board of Trustees Transactions, 49th Report, April 15, 1957, p. 372.

4. Board of Trustees Transactions, 52nd Report, November 9, 1962, p. 261.

5. Undergraduate Course Catalog, 1972/74, pp. 61-62.

6. Undergraduate Study Catalog, 1971/72, p. 365.

7. Graduate College Catalog, 1971/72, p. 99.

Access Terms

This Collection is indexed under the following controlled access subject terms.

Topical Term: Astronomy Radio Astronomy
Administrative Information Accruals:

2/7/1983

Arrangement of Materials:

Chronological/Numerical

Scope and Contents

Illinois Astronomy Pre-Prints contain reports of research by Astronomy Department faculty and graduate students concerning starts, planetary bodies, interstellar molecules and gases, galaxies, radio astronomy and astrophysics. This series includes papers submitted to, but not yet published by scientific journals.