Ruth Murray-Clay

Ruth Murray-Clay presenting at the 2015 ExSoCal meeting at Caltech.

Ruth Murray-Clay is a professor of astronomy at the University of California Santa Cruz who studies the formation of planetary systems.[1][2]

Career

Murray-Clay graduated magna cum laude with an A.B. from Harvard University in 2001, then moved to the University of California, Berkeley where she earned an MA in 2004 and Ph.D. in 2008.[3] She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard University Institute for Theory and Computation until 2010 when she became a lecturer at Harvard University. In September 2014 she joined University of California, Santa Barbara where she held the title of Assistant Professor of Physics.[3]

Awards

In 2008, Murray-Clay received the Mary Elizabeth Uhl Prize[4] for her dissertation work done while at University of California, Berkeley. In 2012 she became a Kavli Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences.[5] She was awarded the American Astronomical Society's Helen B. Warner Prize for Astronomy in 2015.[6]

Public life

Murray-Clay came into the public spotlight in 2015 after Buzzfeed released a story[7] detailing astronomer Geoffrey Marcy's sexual harassment of women and the university's apparent inaction, ultimately leading to Marcy's resignation.[8][9] Murray-Clay, who was a student at University of California, Berkeley during the time harassment was taking place, came forward to describe her attempts to stop the harassment and the University's lack of action.[7][10] Her involvement is credited with helping to bring attention to sexual harassment in the field of astronomy.[11]

References

  1. ↑ "Home/Contact | Ruth Murray-Clay". web.physics.ucsb.edu. Retrieved 2016-06-15.
  2. ↑ "Ruth Murray-Clay | Department of Physics - UC Santa Barbara". www.physics.ucsb.edu. Retrieved 2016-06-15.
  3. 1 2 Murray-Clay, Ruth. "CV of Ruth Murray-Clay" (PDF).
  4. ↑ "Student Prizes & Awards". astro.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2016-06-15.
  5. ↑ "Ruth Murray-Clay". www.nasonline.org. Retrieved 2016-06-15.
  6. ↑ "Helen B. Warner Prize for Astronomy | American Astronomical Society". aas.org. Retrieved 2016-06-15.
  7. 1 2 "Famous Berkeley Astronomer Violated Sexual Harassment Policies Over Many Years". BuzzFeed. Retrieved 2016-06-15.
  8. ↑ Affairs, Public; 14, UC Berkeley | October; 2015 (2015-10-14). "A message about Professor Marcy's resignation". Berkeley News. Retrieved 2016-06-15.
  9. ↑ Witze, Alexandra. "Berkeley sexual harassment case sparks outrage". Nature. doi:10.1038/nature.2015.18554.
  10. ↑ Wilson, Robin (2015-10-14). "How Astronomers Sought to Intervene With Geoff Marcy — and What's at Stake for Women in the Field". The Chronicle of Higher Education. ISSN 0009-5982. Retrieved 2016-06-15.
  11. ↑ "Geoff Marcy, Exoplanet Leader in Sexual Harassment Case, Resigns - Sky & Telescope". Sky & Telescope. 2015-10-13. Retrieved 2016-06-15.
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