Word: cfa
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After spending 26 years at MIT as a research staff assistant and as a professor of geophysics and physics, Shapiro in 1983 became director of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CFA) and professor of astronomy and physics...
...CFA Director, Shapiro has been instrumental in the center's research initiatives, which in recent years have included the development of powerful telescopes and the establishment of a Science Education Department...
...Harvard, according to Araujo the CFA sends its mailings to 150 students and draws about 30 students to its meetings...
Araujo participated in a September convocation of the CFA's executive council, where the possibility of establishing a National Freethought Awareness and Pride Day was discussed...
...next major event for local CFA campus groups is a conference set for Oct. 18 and 19 at the Howard Johnson Hotel on Memorial Drive in Cambridge. The meeting will feature speakers including CSH founder and chair Paul Kurtz, Araujo and Sarah Carlson of the MIT's CFA chapter...