Lucy McFadden
Born	1952 (age 73–74)
Alma mater	Hampshire College (BA) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MS) University of Hawaiʻi (PhD)
Website	deepimpact.astro.umd.edu/science/bios/lmcfadden.html

Lucy-Ann Adams McFadden (born 1952) is an Americanastronomer andplanetary scientist. An employee of theNational Aeronautics and Space Administration, she also founded the Science, Discovery & the Universe Program within theUniversity of Maryland, and the Explore-It-All Science Center, a children's science program.

McFadden was born in New York City in 1952.^[1] Her studies culminated in a bachelor's degree fromHampshire College (1974), Master's in earth and planetary science fromMassachusetts Institute of Technology (1977), and a Ph.D. in geology and geophysics from theUniversity of Hawaiʻi (1983) with the dissertationSpectral reflectance of near-Earth asteroids: implications for composition, origin and evolution. She has held positions at theUniversity of Maryland, College Park,California Space Institute at theUniversity of California, San Diego, andSpace Telescope Science Institute. At NASA, McFadden has been an investigator for the Dawn mission to4 Vesta andCeres; and theDeep Impact andEPOXI programs. She has been a science team member for the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous mission; a member of the 2007-2008ANSMET expedition; a member of the Almahata Sitta meteorite expedition (Northern Sudan, 2009); a leader of theNASA Goddard higher education and university programs (2010); and director of the Education and Public Outreach program for the Deep Impact and Dawn missions.^[2]

• 1977,Visible Spectral Reflectance Measurements of the Galilean Satellites of Jupiter (MORE)
• 1999,Encyclopedia of the solar system (with Paul Robert Weissman; T V Johnson)

• 2015 – AAAS Fellow in Astronomy^[3]
• 2012 –NASA Group Achievement Award Dawn Vesta Operations Team
• 2011 – NASA Group Achievement Award EPOXI Science Team
• 2009 – National Science Foundation Antarctica Science Service Medal
• 2009 – NASA Group Achievement Award EPOXI Project Team
• 2009 – NASA Group Achievement Award Dawn Science Operations Team,
• 2005 – Space Frontier Foundation Vision to Reality Award- Deep Impact Team
• 2005 – Geological Society of Washington, Best Presentation Award
• 1987 – asteroid3066 McFadden named in her honor^[4]

• Press, Jaques Cattell (1982).American Men and Women of Science: The physical and biological sciences. Bowker.

• Lucy A. McFadden,University of Maryland

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