Informatics International, Inc. has been awarded a contract by the International Space University (ISU) of Strasbourg, France, to create and administer a new space studies program in the Southern Hemisphere. Scott Madry, PhD, CEO of Informatics, announced in Chapel Hill on Friday that he will design and oversee the first Southern Hemisphere Summer Space Program (SHS-SP) in partnership with ISU and the University of South Australia (UniSA) at UniSA's Mawson Lakes campus in Adelaide, Australia, from January 5 to February 4, 2011.
Dr. Madry’s corporation, Informatics International, Inc., that he founded in April 1998, provides international scientific services in geomatics. It has successfully completed numerous contracts for North Carolina government agencies and for universities and business in France, the Isle of Man, Turkey, Kenya, Rwanda, Italy, and many other countries. Dr. Madry is research associate professor of archaeology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH), research associate of the Research Laboratories of Archaeology at UNC-CH, and professor of satellite applications at the International Space University. He is the editor-in-chief of the Handbook of Satellite Applications, scheduled for publication by Springer Publishing Company in 2011, with co-editors Joe Pelton, PhD, and Sergio Camacho-Lara, PhD.
Madry has been on the faculty of ISU since 1988, teaching ISU’s advanced summer students in space applications, the study of viewing and studying earth from space. As in other ISU programs, students at the Southern Hemisphere Summer Space Program will benefit from the shared experience of an international, interactive working environment with other professionals, graduate researchers and senior undergraduate students.
“I enjoy my work with ISU,” says Madry, “because ISU believes an interdisciplinary and multicultural curriculum is key to space academic programs. It gives all its students, whatever their individual expertise, an introduction to all departments of space, so that engineers become familiar with the overall issues of designing the architecture of a space vehicle interior and physicians learn a little about astronomy. Each course attracts young specialists from at least twenty countries. They are a pleasure to teach, not only because they are brilliant, but because they get to know each other during the short course and make international professional and personal contacts that they may keep for the rest of their careers. Nurturing and watching the important relationships develop is very rewarding for me.”
ISU was created in 1987. Until now, nine-week summer programs in all aspects of space studies have been held each summer in various countries in the northern hemisphere, and a year-long degree curriculum is offered in Strasbourg.
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