Laurie Leshin, dean of the School of Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, has been chosen as the WPI's 16th president. When she takes office on July 1, she will be the first woman president in the nearly 150-year history of the institute.
Sandra Hunter of Marquette University participated in a new study by NASA and the National Space Biomedical Research Institute that found that women astronauts lose more strength and muscle mass and have a longer post-spaceflight mission recovery time than male astronauts.
Angela Olinto, professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of Chicago, is leading the U.S. portion of a 13-nation effort to build the Extreme Universe Space Observatory.
During a 27-year career with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Dr. Bonnie Dunbar flew in space five times and later served in senior management positions at the Johnson Space Center in Houston and NASA headquarters in Washington, D.C.
Heather Knutson and Bethany Ehlmann have joined the Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.
On Saturday April 16, teams from 30 universities will be competing in the 2011 NASA University Launch Initiative in Toney, Alabama. One of the 30 teams is the "Rocket Girls" from the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa. The team is made up of 16 women, most of whom are majoring in either aerospace or mechanical engineering.
