Spring 2024 Dr. Xavier Prochaska, UC Santa Cruz

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Fall 2023 Dr. Sarah Johnson, Gerogetown University

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Fall 2019 Dr. Kelly Korreck, Harvard Center for Astrophysics

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Spring 2019 Dr. Joseph Taylor, 1993 Nobel Laureate, Princeton University

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Fall 2018 Hilton Lewis, Director of Keck Observatory

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Spring 2018 Dr. Veronique Petit, Assistant Professor, University of Delaware

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2017 Dr. Jane Rigby, Deputy Project Scientist for Operations - JWST, NASA

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2017 Dr. Emily Rice, Assistant Professor, College of Staten Island, City University of New York

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2016 Dr. Mike Montgomery, Dept of Astronomy and McDonald Observatory, The University of Texas

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2016 Harry Shipman, Annie Jump Cannon Professor of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware

2015 Dr. Fergal Mullally, Kepler Science Officer, SETI/NASA Ames Research

2014 Carolyn Porco, Imaging Science Team Leader, NASA Cassini Mission

2013 Dr. David Jewitt, Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, UCLA

2012 Dr. Mark Morris, Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, UCLA

2011 Dr. Greg Laughlin, Professor and Chair, Department of Astronomy, University of California at Santa Cruz

2010 Captain Alan Bean, Retired US Navy, Apollo 12 Astronaut

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2009 Dr. Alex Filippenko, Professor, University of California Berkeley