The James Webb Space Telescope Mission

Twenty-six years ago a small committee report, building on earlier studies, expounded a compelling and poetic vision for the future of astronomy, calling for an infrared-optimized space telescope with an aperture of at least $4m$. With the support of their governments in the US, Europe, and Canada, 20,000 people realized that vision as the $6.5m$ James Webb Space Telescope. A generation of astronomers will celebrate their accomplishments for the life of the mission, potentially as long as 20 years, and beyond. This report and the scientific discoveries that follow are extended thank-you notes to the 20,000 team members. The telescope is working perfectly, with much better image quality than expected. In this and accompanying papers, we give a brief history, describe the observatory, outline its objectives and current observing program, and discuss the inventions and people who made it possible. We cite detailed reports on the design and the measured performance on orbit.Comment: Accepted by PASP for the special issue on The James Webb Space Telescope Overview, 29 pages, 4 figure

“This Pandemic Is Making Me More Anxious about My Welfare and the Welfare of Others:” COVID-19 Stressors and Mental Health

COVID-19 and subsequent social distancing guidelines have changed many aspects of people’s daily lives including the way that they interact within their social environment. Pandemics are inherently social phenomena, and public health measures intended to curtail transmission of COVID-19 (e.g., quarantine and social distancing) have consequences for individuals with anxiety and depression. Using qualitative methods, respondents with previously diagnosed anxiety or depression identified ways in which COVID-19 affected their symptoms at multiple levels of the social ecological model (SEM). Key themes reported were organized following the SEM. Emergent themes at the individual level are isolation/loneliness, fear of contracting COVID-19, and uncertainty about the future. Themes at the interpersonal level are: fears of family contracting COVID-19, separation from family members, and domestic relationships. Themes at the level of community and societal stressors are: employment, community and societal systems, media, and the COVID-19 pandemic. Our findings demonstrate the ways that mental health, physical health/safety, and social environments are interrelated in the experience of COVID-19 for individuals diagnosed with anxiety or depression. These findings make a significant contribution to the literature as this is the first article to document mental health stressors related to the COVID-19 pandemic among individuals with diagnosed anxiety and depressive disorders

Growing Water: 31st Street Eco-Boulevard and IIT Pavilion Prototype (Semester Unknown) IPRO 322: Growing Water 31st St. Eco-Boulevard and IIT Pavilion Prototype IPRO 322 Midterm Report Sp08

• To create publicity and awareness about the state of Chicago water and the need to start taking steps to preserving and restoring it. • To create a catalog of sustainable methodologies to be implemented in an urban planning strategy throughout the city of Chicago. • Enhance the impact of the Eco-Boulevards in the community. • Collaborate with the city of Chicago and the project team regarding possible implementation of ecological strategies regarding water. • To research and share methods, techniques, practices, equipment, biology, etc. of functional living machines and make it available knowledge. • To establish a social program for the living machine Pavilions to create public interaction points with the ecological function of the living machine.Deliverable

Growing Water: 31st Street Eco-Boulevard and IIT Pavilion Prototype (Semester Unknown) IPRO 322: Growing Water 31st St. Eco-Boulevard and IIT Pavilion Prototype IPRO 322 Abstract Sp08

• To create publicity and awareness about the state of Chicago water and the need to start taking steps to preserving and restoring it. • To create a catalog of sustainable methodologies to be implemented in an urban planning strategy throughout the city of Chicago. • Enhance the impact of the Eco-Boulevards in the community. • Collaborate with the city of Chicago and the project team regarding possible implementation of ecological strategies regarding water. • To research and share methods, techniques, practices, equipment, biology, etc. of functional living machines and make it available knowledge. • To establish a social program for the living machine Pavilions to create public interaction points with the ecological function of the living machine.Deliverable

Growing Water: 31st Street Eco-Boulevard and IIT Pavilion Prototype (Semester Unknown) IPRO 322: Growing Water 31st St. Eco-Boulevard and IIT Pavilion Prototype IPRO 322 Final Presentation Sp08

• To create publicity and awareness about the state of Chicago water and the need to start taking steps to preserving and restoring it. • To create a catalog of sustainable methodologies to be implemented in an urban planning strategy throughout the city of Chicago. • Enhance the impact of the Eco-Boulevards in the community. • Collaborate with the city of Chicago and the project team regarding possible implementation of ecological strategies regarding water. • To research and share methods, techniques, practices, equipment, biology, etc. of functional living machines and make it available knowledge. • To establish a social program for the living machine Pavilions to create public interaction points with the ecological function of the living machine.Deliverable

Growing Water: 31st Street Eco-Boulevard and IIT Pavilion Prototype (Semester Unknown) IPRO 322: Growing Water 31st St. Eco-Boulevard and IIT Pavilion Prototype IPRO 322 Ethics Sp08

• To create publicity and awareness about the state of Chicago water and the need to start taking steps to preserving and restoring it. • To create a catalog of sustainable methodologies to be implemented in an urban planning strategy throughout the city of Chicago. • Enhance the impact of the Eco-Boulevards in the community. • Collaborate with the city of Chicago and the project team regarding possible implementation of ecological strategies regarding water. • To research and share methods, techniques, practices, equipment, biology, etc. of functional living machines and make it available knowledge. • To establish a social program for the living machine Pavilions to create public interaction points with the ecological function of the living machine.Deliverable

Growing Water: 31st Street Eco-Boulevard and IIT Pavilion Prototype (Semester Unknown) IPRO 322

• To create publicity and awareness about the state of Chicago water and the need to start taking steps to preserving and restoring it. • To create a catalog of sustainable methodologies to be implemented in an urban planning strategy throughout the city of Chicago. • Enhance the impact of the Eco-Boulevards in the community. • Collaborate with the city of Chicago and the project team regarding possible implementation of ecological strategies regarding water. • To research and share methods, techniques, practices, equipment, biology, etc. of functional living machines and make it available knowledge. • To establish a social program for the living machine Pavilions to create public interaction points with the ecological function of the living machine.Deliverable

Green Building (Semester Unknown) IPRO 335

The teams’ task is to demonstrate the interdisciplinary cooperative requirements as needed to fulfill a mission of sustainability. This IPRO simulates an actual building development within the Chicago City limits. Specifically a green building development, which means that there is an increase in efficiency of the resources used while the building is constructed, operative, and removed.Deliverable

Green Building (Semester Unknown) IPRO 335: GreenArtStudioIPRO335Poster1Sp09

The teams’ task is to demonstrate the interdisciplinary cooperative requirements as needed to fulfill a mission of sustainability. This IPRO simulates an actual building development within the Chicago City limits. Specifically a green building development, which means that there is an increase in efficiency of the resources used while the building is constructed, operative, and removed.Deliverable