Melissa Rice

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WWU's Melissa Rice to Speak May 28 about Mapping Mars 2019-05-14
WWU Mars Researchers Look Through Curiosity’s Eyes to Analyze the Red Planet's Ancient Geology 2019-05-03
WWU's Melissa Rice Spends a Week Teaching Space Science to Kids from Rio's 'City of God' Favela 2018-08-10
WWU’s real-life Rocket Girl will chat with ‘The Martian’ author

One’s a sci-fi writer who’d never, ever, fly in space. The other’s a NASA scientist who won’t rule out a trip aboard a rocket ship.

But in a sense, both of them have been to the Red Planet – and they took many space enthusiasts with them.

2017-11-27
Bellingham March for Science takes aim at ‘political agendas on all sides’

Among those who spoke was Melissa Rice, an assistant professor of Planetary Science at Western Washington University, who…

2017-04-24
Western's Melissa Rice using Microsoft's new HoloLens headset for her research on Mars 2017-01-30
Join Western’s Academy for Lifelong Learning for an Exploration of Mars in February 2017-01-11
Western Window Episode 43 is now online! 2016-10-07
Dreaming Of The Red Planet: WWU Professor On Finding A Home For The Next Mars Rover

For a long time, Melissa Rice's big dream was dance. She wanted to be a ballerina ever since she saw "The Nutcracker" at four years old. In high school, she danced three hours a day at the Pacific Northwest Ballet. “And it got to the point where my friends who were continuing…

2016-08-29
SPIE Optics + Photonics technologies drive changes from daily life to our view of the universe

Astrophysics' new LIGO-enabled paradigm for exploring the universe, the latest findings of the Mars rovers, and bioinspired robotics are just a few topics in optical engineering to be featured at SPIE Optics + Photonics in August.

More than 3,000 reports on the latest in research and…

2016-05-24
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