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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 8, 1996
DR. LINDA HORN NAMED DISTINGUISHED ALUMNA BY CAL STATE L.A.
JPL's Dr. Linda J. Horn, mission scientist for the U.S.-
European Cassini mission to Saturn, has been named Distinguished
Alumna by the California State University, Los Angeles' School of
Natural and Social Sciences.
Horn is among eight individuals who will receive the
university's highest honors at an awards ceremony Mar. 19 to
acknowledge "outstanding achievements have brought distinction to
the University."
In the past, such notable alumni as educator Jaime
Escalante, novelist Joseph Wambaugh, LAPD Deputy Police Chief
Mark Kroeker, Congresswoman Maxine Waters, Screen Actors Guild
past president Barry Gordon, and physicist and NASA astronaut
Samuel Durrance were honored at this CSULA Alumni Association
event.
Internationally known in for her work in the study of
planetary rings, Horn has
worked at JPL since 1977. While working at JPL, she earned her
masters in physics at Cal State Los Angeles in 1983 and PhD. in
geophysics and space physics from UCLA in 1992. On the Voyager
project from 1977 to 1990, she participated in the collection and
analysis of science data from the planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus
and Neptune. As Cassini mission scientist, she coordinates the
work of U.S. and European science teams. She is also a co-
investigator on the Cassini composite infrared spectrometer team,
where she leads the scientific planning for studies of Saturn's
rings. She is co-author of 50 publications and abstracts.
In 1982, Horn earned the NASA Scientific Achievement Award,
and in 1990 was awarded the NASA Exceptional Service Medal for
her work on the Voyager infrared interferometer-spectrometer
investigation during the 1989 Neptune flyby. Horn lives in
Monrovia with her two daughters, Jennifer and Jessica.
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