7th Annual Conference Series
For Spanish Speaking Parents
CVUSD Elementary Education Department
and the Parent Outreach Program
Are pleased to invite you
* This is an online event will be presented in Spanish
Translation upon request
MY TRAYECTORY - TAKING CHARGE
January Conference
Thursday, Jan 21, 2021, 06:00 PM
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Farisa Morales, Ph. D.
Dr. Farisa Morales is an active astrophysicist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), who hunts for planets and seeks to understand their formation, and is also a professor at California State University, Northridge (CSUN) and Moorpark College. Born in the US, Morales was raised in Jalisco, Mexico, where she completed her primary education. As a teenager, she and her family migrated back to the US, where she completed high school in the Los Angeles County Public School System. At 18 years of age, Morales married and began a family. With a three-year old daughter and a six-month old baby, she began her college education at L.A. Mission Community College, where she majored in Mathematics. While raising her kids, Morales graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Astrophysics from UCLA, and continued on to a Master’s degree in Physics from CSUN. Her work on planetary debris disks at JPL with the Spitzer Space Telescope, evolved into her PhD dissertation project, and attained her PhD in Physics from USC in 2011. Using the Spitzer Space Telescope and the Herschel Space Observatory, Morales studies stars with planetary debris disks and planet formation processes, their architecture and composition. She uses the powerful 10-meter Keck Observatory on Mauna Kea in Hawaii and the 5-meter Hale Telescope at Palomar Mountain in California to hunt for planets. As a teacher, Morales has had the great fortune to involved CSUN and Moorpark College students in astronomical research, opening the doors to a new generation of space scientists.
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