Yale University withdrew from the WIYN consortium on April 1, 2014, and was replaced by the University of Missouri in the fall of that year.
[1] Purdue University joined in 2017 for a three-year period.
In 2001, the WIYN Consortium took over control of the KPNO 36-inch (910 mm) telescope, built in 1960, and rechristened it as the WIYN 0.9 m Telescope.
This small but popular telescope was in danger of being mothballed for budgetary reasons.
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