Centennial Distinguished Lecture Series

April 24, 2008

Maria Zuber
E. A. Griswold Professor of Geophysics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Maria T. Zuber is the E. A. Griswold Professor of Geophysics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where she also leads the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences. Zuber has been involved in more than half a dozen NASA planetary missions aimed at mapping the Moon, Mars, Mercury, and several asteroids. She received her B.A. in astrophysics from the University of Pennsylvania and Sc.M. and Ph.D. in geophysics from Brown University. She was on the faculty at Johns Hopkins niversity and served as a research scientist at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland.

Prof. Zuber received the 2007 G. K. Gilbert Award at the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America, Oct. 28-31. The Award is presented annually by the Planetaray Division to a career research scientist who has significantly contributed to the solution of fundamental problems in the field of planetary geology, in the broadest sense.

Time 2:30 pm

Room PHYS 203

Earth & Atmospheric Sciences