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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Congressional committees eliminated the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), a program the Carter Administration supported. Eric J. Chaisson, assistant professor of Astronomy, had hoped that his $147,000 four-year proposal, "An Operational, Dedicated SETI Program," would pass as part of SETI's $2 million budget...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Concern Voiced Over New Space Plan | 10/28/1978 | See Source »

...Congress had approved the program, undergraduate volunteers would have assisted Chaisson in using the presently silent 26-meter Agassiz Radio Telescope, located in Harvard, Mass., to listen in on 350 stars considered most likely to support extra-terrestrial civilizations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Concern Voiced Over New Space Plan | 10/28/1978 | See Source »

...designed the course to be a little more difficult this year," Eric J. Chaisson, assistant professor of Astronomy, said, "in the hopes that we could cut down a bit on the enrollment. I also made a plea the first day for the scientists to get out of the class...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Economics 10, Humanities 9a Lead Course List | 10/11/1978 | See Source »

Astro 8 involves a minimal amount of mathematics, attracting a substantial number of non-science majors, Eric. J. Chaisson, assistant professor of Astronomy, said yesterday, "The sections are taught with slides and movies, making the course more interesting," Chaisson said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ec 10 Tops Course List Again; Hun 9a Follows | 10/6/1977 | See Source »

...Great Guy. But the President, for his own reasons, passed over Chaisson and Assistant Corps Commandant General Raymond Davis, 56, the only other plausible candidate, for Cushman. The choice was partly personal. From 1957 to 1960, Cushman served as Assistant for National Security Affairs to then Vice President Nixon. When Nixon assumed the presidency eight years later, he appointed Cushman to the CIA, where his chief responsibility was to represent the agency on the United States Intelligence Board, which is the hub of the U.S. intelligence-gathering network...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: A New Top Leatherneck | 12/13/1971 | See Source »

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