The Pasadena, California, HQ of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, higher referred to as JPL.
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NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, one of the vital country’s preeminent analysis and construction labs, has appointed Laurie Leshin because the first feminine director in its historical past. Leshin has additionally been appointed vp of Caltech, the college that runs JPL.
Leshin is these days the president of the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, a personal STEM-focused college situated in Worcester, Massachusetts. Leshin was once additionally WPI’s first feminine president when she assumed the function in 2014. She’ll suppose the JPL director function on Might 16, 2022.
Leshin is a famend scientist whose paintings spans stints in each the non-public and public sector. She’s held senior positions at NASA and has been appointed to the White Area two times: as soon as in 2004, when she served on President George W. Bush’s Fee on Implementation of United States House Exploration Coverage, and once more in 2013 as a part of President Barack Obama’s advisory board of the Smithsonian Establishment’s Nationwide Air and House Museum.
“I’m each overjoyed and humbled to be appointed the director of JPL,” Leshin stated in a observation. “We’ve monumental alternatives forward to leverage JPL’s international management in robot house exploration to reply to awe-inspiring clinical questions and support existence right here on Earth.”
