Melissa Rice

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Top Mars Scientists to Engage the Bellingham Community About the Future of Mars Exploration June 27 at the Mount Baker Theatre 2016-05-12
Mars 2020 mission: Students survey rover landing sites

Meeting weekly this semester for the Astronomy 6500 seminar, Cornell undergraduate and graduate students are conducting research – with six other universities – to help NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory determine a rover landing site for the Mars 2020 mission.

The course is a hybrid…

2016-05-05
NASA Names WWU’s Melissa Rice a ‘Participating Scientist’ on Mars’ Curiosity Rover Team 2016-03-31
NASA picks Researchers to take part in Curiosity Mars Rover mission

NASA has selected 28 researchers as participating scientists for the Curiosity Mars rover mission, including six newcomers to the rover’s science team.
The six new additions work in Alabama, Colorado, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Tennessee. Eighty-nine scientists around the world…

2016-03-14
WCC workshops point boys, girls toward nontraditional careers

A “Guys & Guts” workshop aims to steer middle-school boys toward the careers in the medical profession that are more frequently held by women with presentations and activities from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, March 5, at Whatcom Community College.

Participants will visit a biology lab…

2016-03-03
Photos: STEM Mix it Up Night 2015-11-16
WWU’s Melissa Rice Collaborates with Curiosity Rover Team on New Research Published in the Journal ‘Science’ 2015-10-20
What’s happening in Whatcom County for Oct. 19

The International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE) and Western Washington University’s Compass 2 Campus Program will host “An Evening of Light” from 6:30-7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 20, at the Western Performing Arts Center.

The free event open to everyone features Melissa Rice, a…

2015-10-20
‘Evening of Light’ to feature Mars exploration, genius of lasers

What is it like to explore Mars? What do the latest discoveries from the Red Planet tell us about our own past on Earth -- or our future?

Find out in person next month at Western Washington University, via a talk by professor Melissa Rice, one of 400 scientists worldwide to help pilot…

2015-09-29
Celebrate Pluto expedition in downtown Bellingham

While Pluto has not been an official planet since 2006, it will be stealing the spotlight when a NASA spacecraft makes the closest-ever encounter with it on Tuesday, July 14.

The Spark Museum of Electrical Invention will be hosting Pluto Revealed, a free event from 5-7 p.m. Tuesday to…

2015-07-14
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