Red Fern Booksellers
Red Fern Booksellers (106 S. Santa Fe) will host a Science Café on Friday, April 10 at 6:30pm with Planetary Scientist, Dr. Stefanie Milam, who currently works on the James Webb Space Telescope.
Dr. Milam will be presenting on what the telescope has discovered, including Atlas 3i, the comet that will pass near the Earth at the end of the year.
Dr. Stefanie Milam is a Planetary Scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland and has served as the James Webb Space Telescope Project Scientist for Policy and Science Community since 2024, where she will be developing and improving policies for selecting and executing JWST observations, and seeking feedback from the JWST user community.
Milam is originally from Houston, Texas. She obtained her B.S. in Chemistry from Kansas Wesleyan University in 2002 and completed her Ph.D. in Chemistry at the University of Arizona in 2007. Milam first started at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in 2010 as a research scientist.
Milam works in the Astrochemistry Laboratory at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. She is an expert in rotational spectroscopy, observations, and laboratory astrophysics of the interstellar medium, star formation regions, protoplanetary disks, and small bodies in the solar system (namely comets) with an emphasis on isotopic fractionation and astrobiology of primitive materials.
Milam enjoys sampling local foods all over the world during travel, hiking, and spending time with her three dogs.
Come and join Dr. Milam for an evening of science, like the comet, this is an extraordinary opportunity to talk with a NASA Scientist.