A&S Dean Ray Jayawardhana Shares His Passions for Collaborative Learning and Astrophysics

This feature story details Dean Jayawardhana's interest in .

Arts and Sciences dean and astrophysicist Ray Jayawardhana’s interest in astronomy started when, as a boy of about four years, his father told him about people walking on the moon.
He said that at that age, the idea that “there’s something in the sky and you could walk on it” was “kind of mind-blowing.”

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