>> I'm Larry Dubinski, Chief Operating Officer
of the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The Institute is the most visited museum in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
One of the top science centers in the country.
As Chief Operating Officer I oversee a variety of the programs at the Franklin Institute.
I'm also the General Counsel and the Secretary of the Institute.
So the General Counsel role I oversee legal matters.
I oversee the finance area, the human resource area, the development
and government relations area, board relations, as well as information technology.
And then past also overseeing some of great science programming that we do at the Institute.
Additionally, we are one of the top cultural attractions.
The institute has emerged as really the leading place
for travelling exhibitions on the east coast.
So the Institute has been host to such great exhibitions as King Tut, Body Worlds, Titanic.
It was the only place when the Galileo telescope left Italy several years ago,
and was able to host an exhibition regarding the Galileo telescope,
exhibitions on Leonardo and the such.
So we've really emerged as really the top place for travelling exhibitions to hit especially
when they come to the east coast.
And so our NASA grant is a grant that helps take astronomy into urban neighborhoods.
Kids that would never have, and adults, the opportunity to really gaze into the stars
and understand what's up there because of grants from the federal government,
from NASA for instance we're able to do that.
Those grants unfortunately are being harder and harder to obtain as budget cuts really
at all levels of government are there.