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Future of research dollars in jeopardy

A LIFETIME SPENT WITH HUBBLE

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‘Everybody is in a down market,’ KU officials warn By Ben Unglesbee bunglesbee@ljworld.com

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RETIRED ASTRONAUT STEVE HAWLEY helped launch the Hubble Space Telescope in 1990 and now is teaching with Hubble data.

FROM SPACE TO THE CLASSROOM

Despite a recent compromise on a $1.1 trillion federal budget, Kansas University officials are still fretting over the long-term future of federally funded research. Steve Warren, vice chancellor of research and graduate studies at KU, gave a talk to the Kansas Board of Regents recently, both to keep the regents apprised of the funding landscape and to help them sway lawmakers on the issue. Warren discussed the recently passed budget bill, which restores much of the research funding axed in sequestration cuts for the 2014 and 2015 fiscal years. But with the law that created the sequester effective through 2020, funding levels could slide back to sequester levels by 2016. Warren calls the new budget “more like a Band-Aid.”

By Joanna Hlavacek

Please see RESEARCH, page 2A

jhlavacek@ljworld.com

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uring his 30-year career with NASA, retired astronaut Steve Hawley flew into space to help launch the Hubble Space Telescope in 1990 and to repair it in 1997. Today, Hawley is working with Hubble again, this time to investigate an abnormal planetary nebula he first studied as a young astronomer in the 1970s. Hawley, now a professor of physics and astronomy at Kansas University, will use images captured by the telescope to examine the nebula, called Tololo 26. Planetary nebulae are shells of gas emitted by certain types of dying stars, Hawley said. In his 1981 analysis, Hawley noted Tololo 26 had a higher-than-average density and insufficient mass producing its spectrum, making it “abnormal.” “It was so abnormal, as a matter of fact, I couldn’t back then determine what it was,” he said. “I did make the prediction in the paper I wrote 30 years ago that the spectrum would probably change over time.”

Plan pushed to pump Missouri River water to western Kansas By Scott Rothschild Twitter: @ljwrothschild

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HAWLEY HOLDS A MODEL of the Hubble telescope in Lawrence. During his career as an astronaut, Hawley served on five missions and logged more than 770 hours in space. He began working with the Hubble telescope in 1985, when he was assigned to the deployment mission.

Seven years after launching the telescope in 1990, Hawley served on his second Hubble mission in 1997. During that flight, he installed new instruments on the telescope, Please see HUBBLE, page 2A

Topeka — Proponents of a 360-mile long canal from the northeast tip of Kansas to western Kansas that would draw water from the Missouri River to replenish the Ogallala Aquifer were pushing their project in the Statehouse last week. The state is updating a 1982 study by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that pegged the cost of the KanLEGISLATURE sas Aqueduct project then at $4.4 billion to build and $475 million per year to maintain. Mark Rude, executive director of the Southwest Kansas Groundwater Management District No. 3, said his area needs the water because it pumps about 2 million Please see WATER, page 2A

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