Background
Grice, Noreen Alisa-May was born on March 24, 1963 in Malden, Massachusetts, United States. Daughter of Donald James and Edith Elaine (Bell) Grice.
( Touch the Sun is a universally designed book with color...)
Touch the Sun is a universally designed book with colorful raised images and combined text in print and Braille that explores the dynamic nature of our Sun. Topics include: size comparison between Earth and the Sun, the interior layers of the Sun, sunspots and their motion, views of the Sun in visible and ultraviolet light, solar eruptions as seen from space based observatories, massive solar storms, and the effect of space weather on Earth. According to the author, "This book is hot!"
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( Touch the Universe is a unique and innovative astronomy...)
Touch the Universe is a unique and innovative astronomy book that will help visually impaired people "see" the wonders of our universe. Using a combination of Braille and large-print captions that face 14 pages of brilliant Hubble Space Telescope photos, it is embossed with shapes that represent various astronomical objects such as stars, gas clouds, and jets of matter streaming into space. "Universally designed" for both the sighted and visually impaired reader, Touch the Universe takes readers on a voyage of discovery, starting at Earth, proceeding through the solar system, and ending with the most distant image taken by Hubble, the mind-boggling "Hubble Deep Field" photo -- the first telescope image ever to bring home to human consciousness in a deeply fundamental way the literally infinite reaches of our universe of galaxies. As the author puts it, "A visually impaired person can still touch and smell a flower, or a tree, or an animal, but he or she could only imagine what an astronomical object is like ... until now."
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Astronomer educator tactile graphics artist
Grice, Noreen Alisa-May was born on March 24, 1963 in Malden, Massachusetts, United States. Daughter of Donald James and Edith Elaine (Bell) Grice.
Bachelor in Astronomy, Boston University, 1985. Master of Science in Astronomy, San Diego State University, 1987. Professional certified in Museum Studies, Tufts University, 1997.
Professional certified in Non-Profit Management, Boston Center Adult Education. Professional certified in Assistive Technology, California State University, Northridge.
Children's astronomy teacher Boston University, 1984-1985, observatory curator, summer 1984, 85. Laboratory instructor San Diego State University, 1985-1987. Science instructor College Academy Stonehill, Easton, Massachusetts, summer 1987.
Adjunct professor Bentley College, Waltham, 1987-1988. Education consultant Boston Museum of Science, 1987-1988, education coordinator, 1988, planetarium operations coordinator. Professor Northeastern University, Boston, 1998.
President You Can Do Astronomy, LLC. Science advisor Beyond Earth: A Space Adventure (videodisk), Burlington, Massachusetts, 1989—1990. Developer Nature Company Astronomy Kit, 1992.
Host Misson Mars.
( Touch the Sun is a universally designed book with color...)
( Touch the Universe is a unique and innovative astronomy...)
Member of National Federation Blind, New England Science Writers, National Association Science Writers, Schwartz Astronomical Society Pacific (president 1986-1987, Astronomical Department award 1986), International Planetarium Society (Fellows award), American Astronomical Society (associate).
Married Dennis Wade Dawson, August 12, 1988.