University of Arizona astronomy professor Marcia Rieke
UA College of Science
A legendary University of Arizona scientist is getting an award from one of many nation’s prime athletic conferences.
Regent’s professor Marcia Rieke developed devices for the James Webb Space Telescope. Now she’s been acknowledged by the Big 12 Conference as UA’s Faculty of the Year honoree.
Rieke remembers taking part in women’s basketball throughout her undergraduate years on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
“MIT could see Title IX coming over the horizon,” she mentioned. “And they prided themselves on having more NCAA sanctioned teams than any other university although they were not big time in any one of them.”
Rieke notes in these days, women’s faculty basketball hardly drew a crowd, and MIT groups typically performed towards different women’s colleges within the East.
“I remember we played at Wellesley, which is a women’s college. And we did okay.”
Rieke says being a part of a basketball workforce taught her about self-discipline and resilience as she moved into her profession in science and analysis. Her Big 12 honor will are available in entrance of a crowd on the McKale Center throughout the Arizona Wildcats’ showdown with Brigham Young University on Wednesday evening.
Arizona, Central Florida, and the University of Houston every have extremely regarded tutorial packages in area science and analysis. All the colleges are members of the Big 12 Conference.