
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.
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.
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