Date
Wednesday, November 1, 2023
Time
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Event cost
Free
Event location
Virtual via Zoom
Questions?
Contact Lawrence Young
Associate Director of Alumni Relations
603-229-4708 | rsvp@sps.edu
Excellence in Character and Scholarship
This academic year, St. Paul’s School will host a series of events featuring alumni who are living the School’s mission and have dedicated themselves to the pursuit of excellence in character and scholarship.
Space Exploration
Please join Rector Kathy Giles and Science Teacher Rick Pacelli for our first panel as they engage in a conversation with these alumni about space exploration:
- Dr. Alison Crocker ’02, astrophysicist and professor at Reed College
- Dr. Henry Ferguson ’77, P’06,’10, astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute
Alumni Panel
Dr. Alison Crocker ’02
is an astrophysicist whose research focuses on the physics of star formation in nearby galaxies. A member of the physics faculty at Reed College since 2014, she works on connecting what we know about the gas in galaxies to what we know about the stars that actually form. Alison attended Dartmouth College, then University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. She earned her D.Phil. in astrophysics from Oxford and completed two postdoctoral positions at the University of Massachusetts and the University of Toledo. Alison and her family live in Portland, Oregon.
Dr. Henry Ferguson ’77, P’06,’10
is an astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute since 1995 who has been deeply involved in pushing the Hubble Space Telescope, and now the James Webb Space Telescope, to their limits to explore the distant universe. Harry is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Astronomical Society. He earned his undergraduate degree from Harvard University and his Ph.D. in physics and astronomy at The Johns Hopkins University. He and his spouse, Meg Ziegler Ferguson ’77, live in Maryland.