Brief Bio
Lucy McFadden investigates the surface composition of the solar system's small bodies (asteroids, comets, and meteorites) as well as natural satellites such as the moons of Earth and Jupiter. She is a Co-Investigator on NASA's Dawn mission to the asteroids Vesta and Ceres and on the Deep Impact Extended Investigation, which has successfully encountered comets Tempel 1 and Hartley 2. Before that, McFadden was a member of the science team for the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous mission, which landed a spacecraft on the asteroid Eros in 2001.
In addition to these studies of small bodies in space, she collected meteorites as a member of the 2007-2008 expedition of the Antarctic Search for Meteorites (ANSMET) and participated in the fourth recovery expedition for Almahata Sitta meteorite in northern Sudan in 2009.
McFadden came to NASA Goddard to lead the center's higher education and university programs in 2010. The appointment is a natural follow-on to her work as the director of Education and Public Outreach for NASA's Deep Impact and Dawn missions and as a research professor in the Department of Astronomy at the University of Maryland, where she mentored undergraduates, graduates, and post-doctoral scientists. She is founding and past director of the Science, Discovery & the Universe Program, part of the College Park Scholars, a special interdisciplinary program within the University of Maryland's undergraduate program. She is also a founder and past vice president of the Explore-It-All Science Center, a nonprofit, traveling, hands-on science program for children in grade K-12 that bridges engineering, astronomy, and robotics.
Goddard is familiar turf for McFadden, who completed a postdoctoral fellowship here earlier in her career. In between, she was a research professor at the University of Maryland, College Park, and a scientist at the California Space Institute at the University of California, San Diego, and held a visiting position at Space Telescope Science Institute.
Brief Bio
Lucy McFadden investigates the surface composition of the solar system's small bodies (asteroids, comets, and meteorites) as well as natural satellites such as the moons of Earth and Jupiter. She is a Co-Investigator on NASA's Dawn mission to the asteroids Vesta and Ceres and on the Deep Impact Extended Investigation, which has successfully encountered comets Tempel 1 and Hartley 2. Before that, McFadden was a member of the science team for the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous mission, which landed a spacecraft on the asteroid Eros in 2001.
In addition to these studies of small bodies in space, she collected meteorites as a member of the 2007-2008 expedition of the Antarctic Search for Meteorites (ANSMET) and participated in the fourth recovery expedition for Almahata Sitta meteorite in northern Sudan in 2009.
McFadden came to NASA Goddard to lead the center's higher education and university programs in 2010. The appointment is a natural follow-on to her work as the director of Education and Public Outreach for NASA's Deep Impact and Dawn missions and as a research professor in the Department of Astronomy at the University of Maryland, where she mentored undergraduates, graduates, and post-doctoral scientists. She is founding and past director of the Science, Discovery & the Universe Program, part of the College Park Scholars, a special interdisciplinary program within the University of Maryland's undergraduate program. She is also a founder and past vice president of the Explore-It-All Science Center, a nonprofit, traveling, hands-on science program for children in grade K-12 that bridges engineering, astronomy, and robotics.
Goddard is familiar turf for McFadden, who completed a postdoctoral fellowship here earlier in her career. In between, she was a research professor at the University of Maryland, College Park, and a scientist at the California Space Institute at the University of California, San Diego, and held a visiting position at Space Telescope Science Institute.
