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About Us
At AUI, we collaborate with the scientific community to plan, build and operate cutting-edge facilities.
We cultivate excellence, deliver value, enhance education and engage the public. Our expertise focuses on continually improving research and development, user facilities, management and operations, technology incubation, and community engagement through workshop and conference planning.
Office of Education & Public Engagement
The AUI Office of Education and Public Engagement (OEPE) builds on decades of experience across formal and informal education and outreach, and the management of large complex science projects and facilities. Through the OEPE, AUI works to identify and develop initiatives that are innovative and potentially transformative in STEM related education and outreach.
ACEAP brings amateur astronomers, planetarium personnel, and K-16 formal and informal astronomy educators to U.S. astronomy facilities in Chile. While at these facilities, ACEAP ambassadors receive extensive training about the instruments, the science, data products and communicating STEM concepts. When they return home, the ambassadors share their experiences and observatory resources with schools and community groups across the U.S.
Mission Patagonia participants will travel to the Melimoyu Elemental Reserve in northern Patagonia, Chile. The Reserve is a pristine natural laboratory, surrounded by volcanoes, ice, fjords, cetaceans, blue whales and other unique resources. While on the 10-day expedition, participants will investigate innovative approaches to effective conservation and climate change mitigation and share their experience with networks back home.
The Women and Girls in Astronomy Program is looking to fund ten projects that use astronomy for development activities to promote, support and uplift women and girls in the field. Project applicants are encouraged to approach astronomy from a unique lens, including, but not limited to, scientific, social, technical, cultural and artistic perspectives. Each selected project will receive a mentor who will help them to reach their full potential.
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