Making of a Scientist: Images and Reality

7 pm, Scheduled Thursday Evenings, Fall, 2005 - Spring, 2006

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center invites you to a new public lecture series featuring some of the most fascinating and inspiring women in space, science and scientific leadership.

*** EYES ON THE SKY 2006 starts NEXT WEEK!!! Sign Up Now!!!***

Time and Location:

Colloquia will be held on scheduled Thursday evenings at 7 pm in the Goddard Visitor Center Auditorium . Refreshments and informal interaction with speakers will follow each lecture. Appropriate for high school/college level and above. Free parking is available at the Visitor Center. For directions, please click here: Directions

Upcoming Lecture:

Dr. Anne Kinney will deliver the next lecture of the series Blue Planets, Black Holes on Thursday, Feb 9. To download a printable flyer for this talk, please click here: Flyer.


Reservations:

Admission is free but on-line reservations are requested to help us plan for the event. Please help us avoid chaos! RSVP at http://university.gsfc.nasa.gov/mos/rsvp.jsp.

Colloquium Schedule:

For an abstract of the talk and a brief biographical sketch of the speaker, please click on the speaker's name and lecture title below.

Date Speaker Affiliation Lecture Title
Nov 10 Kathie Olsen Deputy Director, National Science Foundation The Immortality Factor
Dec 8 Laurie Leshin Director, Sciences and Exploration Directorate, GSFC Mars Rocks!
January 26 Meg Urry Director, Yale Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Yale University Hidden Black Holes--And Where are the Rest of 'Me'?
Feb 9 Anne Kinney Director, Astrophysics Division,Science Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters Blue Planets, Black Holes

Request for Volunteers:

We are looking for volunteers to help us with logistics on the evening of the lectures right before the talk from 6:00 - 7:00 pm. If you would like to get involved with the program, get community service hours, would like a pizza dinner before the lecture and get your top pick for a seat in the main auditorium, please contact us as soon as possible.

Contact Information:

For questions, contact us by phone at 301-286-2893/ 9690 or via e-mail at lrana@pop600.gsfc.nasa.gov.

Sign Language Interpreter Request:

To request a sign language interpreter, please send an email request to Lubna Rana at lrana@pop600.gsfc.nasa.gov. Goddard employees should call 301-286-8313.

Webmaster: Lubna Rana