FOUR NASA SCIENTISTS TO SPEAK AT WOMEN'S CONFERENCE.Byline: Daily News VALENCIA - Four women scientists from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory “JPL” redirects here. For other uses, see JPL (disambiguation). Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is a NASA research center located in the cities of Pasadena and La Cañada Flintridge, near Los Angeles, California, USA. in Pasadena will share the podium April 11 as keynote speakers at College of the Canyons' Women's Leadership Conference. Also scheduled to speak is former Los Angeles Lakers player Jamaal Wilkes, who now runs a financial services company. Deborah Bass, Ashley Stroupe, Jaime Waydo and Ruth Fragoso will speak at lunch at the conference, intended to help women gain practical knowledge and draw inspiration from women leaders and pioneers. Bass is deputy project scientist for the Phoenix Mars Scout Mission, scheduled to launch in 2007. Bass conducts independent research on the Martian water cycle, focusing on surface-atmosphere interactions in the north polar region North Polar Region See Polar Regions. . Bass was also the science operations system engineer for the Mars Exploration Rover project and the MER deputy science team chief. Bass received her bachelor's degree in geology from the University of Pennsylvania (body, education) University of Pennsylvania - The home of ENIAC and Machiavelli. http://upenn.edu/. Address: Philadelphia, PA, USA. and her doctorate in planetary geology from the University of California, Los Angeles UCLA comprises the College of Letters and Science (the primary undergraduate college), seven professional schools, and five professional Health Science schools. Since 2001, UCLA has enrolled over 33,000 total students, and that number is steadily rising. . ``The neat thing about geology is that you look at the big picture,'' she said. ``You combine a little physics, a little biology, a little chemistry and a little history. You look at how things interact with one another.'' In college, her interests expanded to planetary geology. ``It was like taking the big picture of geology and making it even bigger - look at a whole planet, rather than one system.'' Stroupe is a robotics engineer and works as a rover driver with the MER project, building sequences of commands to drive the rover and deploy scientific instruments. Stroupe received her bachelor's degree in physics from Harvey Mudd College Harvey Mudd College: see Claremont Colleges. , a master's in electrical engineering from George Mason University Named after American revolutionary, patriot and founding father George Mason, the university was founded as a branch of the University of Virginia in 1957 and became an independent institution in 1972. and another in robotics from Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University, at Pittsburgh, Pa.; est. 1967 through the merger of the Carnegie Institute of Technology (founded 1900, opened 1905) and the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research (founded 1913). , where she also earned a doctorate in robotics. Waydo is a mechanical systems engineer at JPL. In her NASA career, Waydo has led a series of entry, descent and landing tests for the MER mission, which landed twin rovers successfully on Mars in January 2004. Her current assignment is leading the mobility team for the Mars Science Laboratory This article or section documents a scheduled or expected spaceflight. Details may change as the launch date approaches or more information becomes available. mission, a rover scheduled to launch in 2009. Waydo received her bachelor's in mechanical engineering from Montana State University and her master's degree in mechanical and aerospace engineering from UCLA. Fragoso is responsible for the training and readiness of mission operations flight teams, conducting mission operation simulation exercises of various scenarios, facilitating the execution of training modules and ensuring flight team certification. Fragoso earned her bachelor's in electrical engineering from UCLA. Wilkes is founder and president of Jamaal Wilkes Financial Advisors, offering investment planning and management services to foundations, business owners/entrepreneurs, professionals and nonprofit organizations. IF YOU GO: The College of the Canyons College of the Canyons is one of the fastest-growing community colleges in the state. According to the National Junior College Research Association, College of the Canyons consistently ranks in the top 50 community colleges in the nation. Women's Leadership Conference will be held from 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. April 11 on campus. The cost is $95 for the entire day; $60, half-day; $40 for students and college staff and faculty. Information: Agnes Eguaras, (661) 362-5034 or agnes.eguaras(at)canyons.edu. CAPTION(S): box Box: IF YOU GO (see text) |
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