Student government applications available

The student government is accepting applications this week for elected positions.

The executive positions for the Associated Students of the University of Arizona are president, executive vice president, administrative vice president and senator.

Packets can be picked up in the ASUA office on the third floor of the Student Union Memorial Center.

Packets are due Thursday in the ASUA office.

UA professor awarded for astronomy work

The American Astronomical Society has awarded J. Roger Angel the 2006 Joseph Weber Award for Astronomical Instrumentation, the society announced on Wednesday.

Angel is a UA regents' professor and is on the faculty of the UA astronomy department and the College of Optical Sciences. He is also the director of the Steward Observatory Mirror Laboratory and the Center for Astronomical Adaptive Optics.

The Weber Award is given "to an individual, of any nationality, for the design, invention or significant improvement of instrumentation leading to advances in astronomy," the AAS announcement said.

The society cited Angel "for his superlative work spanning two decades on the development of a new generation of large telescopes, his establishment of the Steward Observatory Mirror Lab and a host of extraordinary conceptual ideas that have been turned into practical engineering solutions for astronomy."