Harvard Club of Minnesota

An Evening with Planetary Scientist and Dean Jeremy Bloxham

Date:   Tuesday, June 4, 2013
Time: 5:00 – 7:00 p.m.
Location: Dorsey & Whitney, 50 S. Sixth Street, Minneapolis, MN 55402
Sponsored by: Harvard Club of MN
Cost: Free
RSVP: hcminnesota.clubs.harvard.edu
Contact us: Admin@harvardmn.org
 

Planetary scientist Jeremy Bloxham, dean of science in Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) and Mallinckrodt Professor of Geophysics, was first appointed to the Harvard faculty as an assistant professor in 1987. Bloxham was promoted to full professor in 1993 and assumed the Mallinckrodt chair in 2005. In 2002, he was named a Harvard College Professor, a distinction recognizing exceptional undergraduate teaching. He has previously taught in the Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences and in the Applied Mathematics program in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and currently teaches in the Freshman Seminar Program.

Bloxham studies how planets generate magnetic fields, a long-recognized phenomenon that is still not fully understood despite more than four centuries of scientific investigation. He is currently a co-investigator on the Juno mission, a NASA-funded project sending a spacecraft into a polar orbit around Jupiter. Juno launched successfully on 5 August 2011 and will enter orbit on 4 July 2016.