Gemini STARS Every year, Gemini staff can nominate a colleague to receive the “Gemini STARS” award. One award is given to an employee at both Gemini North and South. Employees who receive the award exemplify Gemini’s Working Culture, and meet these STARS standards: Striving for personal and institutional growth Treating others as we want to […]

  Aloha! My name is Alyssa Grace and I’m a University of Hawai‘i at Hilo student interning at Gemini Observatory in the Public Information and Outreach department. In order to share more about what being an astronomer is like, I decided to live the days of a certain type of astronomer, a Science Operations Specialist […]

Last week, University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) graduate student, Sarthak Dasadia, visited Gemini North. Sarthak, an amateur astronomer and staff person at a local planetarium near his home in India, would often collect scientific data to send to various institutes such as the American Meteor Society. He recounts, “Internet was a privilege back then, […]