VATICAN OBSERVATORY SUMMER SCHOOL TO START JUNE 13

VATICAN CITY, JUN 2, 1999 (VIS) - The Seventh Vatican Observatory Summer School in Observational Astronomy and Astrophysics will be held from June 13 to July 10 at the observatory headquarters in the papal summer residence at Castelgandolfo, near Rome, according to a communique from the Vatican Observatory.

Twenty-five young scholars from 21 different countries were selected to participate in this summer school. The selection process took place in Tucson, Arizona, U.S.A. at the offices of the Vatican Observatory Research Group at the University of Arizona's Steward Observatory.

"The purpose of the school," says the communique, "is to help young people at the beginning of their program of higher studies to develop quality research careers which will be nourished by interchange on an international scale. Many of the students from developing countries who participated in the six previous schools are now pursuing studies or post-graduate research at renowned institutions. The Jesuit Community of the Vatican observatory has provided scholarships to five of them to begin their graduate studies."

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