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Science on Mars Time: Roving the Red Planet with Curiosity

Friday, March 15, 2013, By News Staff
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The Department of Earth Sciences is pleased to
announce a lecture by Dr. Laurie Leshin, Dean of the School of Science
at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute:

Science on Mars Time: Roving the Red Planet with Curiosity
Thursday, April 4, at 4pm in Crouse-Hinds Hall rm 010

Dr. Leshin is a cosmochemist interested in deciphering the record of
water on objects in our solar system. She is a member of two
instrument teams for the Mars Science Laboratory mission, which
delivered a sophisticated science lab to Mars in August of 2012. She
will be discussing some of the findings of this ongoing mission.
Prior to joining Rensselaer, Dr. Leshin served as the Deputy Associate
Administrator for NASA’s Exploration Systems Mission Directorate,
where she oversaw the planning and execution of the next generation of
human spaceflight endeavors and helped initiate the development of
commercial human spaceflight capabilities to low earth orbit. She also
served as Director of Science and Deputy Center Director for Science
and Technology at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, and as
Director of the Center for Meteorite Studies at Arizona State
University, which houses the largest University-based meteorite
collection in the world. An asteroid was named in her honor (4922
Leshin) by the International Astronomical Union. She holds a Ph.D. in
Geochemistry from the California Institute of Technology.
Please note that presentation of the Norma Slepecky Undergraduate
Research Prize in the Sciences will follow the lecture. The Slepecky
Award is offered to the student who demonstrates excellence in
scholarship and submits the best manuscript or presentation from a
professional meeting in the natural sciences and engineering at SU and
ESF.

Dr. Leshin’s lecture is part of the K. Douglas Nelson Lecture Series
in the Department of Earth Sciences, and is co-sponsored by SU-ADVANCE
and WiSE. There will be a reception following the lecture and award
ceremony.

Website:

Contact Person: Bonnie Andrews
Earth Sciences
443-2672
andrews@syr.edu

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