Posted: June 19, 2018
Les Hubbard (left), United States Navy Command Information Officer for Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command, and Lt. Elizabeth Allen and PS2 Joshua Lewis listen to Western Nevada College Jack C. Davis Observatory Director Thomas Herring talk about astronomy during a campus tour on Tuesday.
Western Nevada College welcomed representatives of the United States Navy on Tuesday as they toured Jack C. Davis Observatory, as well as the college’s Advanced Manufacturing and Computer Information and Technology facilities. Les Hubbard, Command Information Officer for Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command, toured the Carson City campus with Lt. Elizabeth Allen and PS2 Joshua Lewis. WNC Acting President P. Mark Ghan, WNC Foundation Executive Director Niki Gladys, Veterans Resource Center Coordinator Kevin Burns and Thomas Herring, director of Jack C. Davis Observatory and a physics professor at the college, also accompanied the Navy delegation on the tour.
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- WNC physics professor Thomas Herring (right) talks to Les Hubbard, U.S. Navy’s Command Information Officer for Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command, about one of Jack C. Davis Observatory’s telescopes on Tuesday.
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- Les Hubbard, Command Information Officer for Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command for the United States Navy, toured WNC’s campus, including CTE program Computer Information Technology, on Tuesday.
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- WNC’s Advanced Manufacturing facility in the Reynolds Center was part of a campus tour for a United States Navy delegation on Tuesday.