Andrew Fraknoi

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Andrew Fraknoi
Born	August 24, 1948 (1948-08-24) (age 59)
Fields	astronomy, astronomy education
Institutions	Foothill College & Astronomical Society of the Pacific
Alma mater	Harvard College, The University of California, Berkeley
Notable awards	2007 California Professor of the Year 2007 Richard H. Emmons Award 2007 Gemant Prize 1994 Annenberg Foundation Award 1994 Klumpke-Roberts Award

Andrew Fraknoi, M.A., is an astronomy professor at Foothill College^[1] and the 2007 California Professor of the Year awarded by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education.^[2] Fraknoi also won the Astronomical Society of the Pacific's 2007 Richard H. Emmons award, ^[3] the American Institute of Physics's 2007 Andrew Gemant Award (given for a lifetime of contributions to the intersection of physics and culture), and the American Astronomical Society's 1994 Annenberg Foundation Award (for a lifetime of contributions to astronomy education.)

Fraknoi served as the Executive Director of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific from 1978 to 1992, edited its popular-level magazine, Mercury, and founded its newsletter for teachers, called The Universe in the Classroom. He is the lead author of "Voyages through the Universe", an introductory college astronomy textbook, now in its third edition, published by Brooks-Cole. In 2007, his first children's book, entitled Wonderful World of Space, was published by Disney. With Sidney Wolff, Fraknoi founded and is co-editor of the first on-lin journal devoted to astronomy education, "Astronomy Education Review" (found at: http://aer.noao.edu).

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