Chair, Astronomy Department, Foothill College (1992 - present) Selected 2007 California Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Endowment for Higher Education Director, Project ASTRO and Family ASTRO (1991 - present) Co-editor, Astronomy Education Review (2001 - present) Lead author, Voyages Through the Universe, college textbook series from Brooks-Cole (1997 - present) Member, SETI Institute Board of Trustees Executive Director, Astronomical Society of the Pacific (1978 - 1992) Adjunct Professor of Astronomy & Physics, San Francisco State University (1980 - 1991) Winner, Annenberg Foundation Prize for Astronomy Education, American Astronomical Society (1994) Asteroid 4859 named Asteroid Fraknoi (1992) Fellow, California Academy of Sciences (2003 on) Winner, Klumpke-Roberts Prize of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific for astronomy popularization (1994) Host, Exploration of the Universe radio program (1982-1984) Founding Editor, The Universe in the Classroom newsletter on teaching astronomy (1984 - 1991)
| Types | Person, Academic |
| Gender | Male |