School of Science, Technology and Health Speaker Series

You are invited to the School of Science, Technology and Health Speaker Series.  Distinguished industry leaders will be sharing with the Biola community their diverse professional and personal insights. This event is free and open to all.  Light refreshments served.

This week's speaker is Lauren White - Systems Engineer, Project Systems Engineering at NASA Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL). Come hear her talk on "What It Means To Have Perseverance". 

Dr. Lauren White received a B.A. in Chemistry from Texas A&M University in 2007 and a Ph D in Chemistry from UC Santa Barbara in 2013. While still an undergraduate, Lauren began her career with NASA as an intern working with nanomaterials. After graduating from Texas A&M, she worked as a scientist and microscopy engineer at Johnson Space Center studying Martian meteorites and supporting micrometeoroid orbital debris inspections on multiple space shuttle missions. She also worked from mission control at Johnson Space center in support of on-orbit inspections for space shuttle missions. As a graduate student intern, Lauren worked as a scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory focusing on experiments which simulated deep ocean vents. Lauren joined the systems engineering group at JPL in 2013 and has since worked as the interface lead on 2 International Space Station missions, each flying aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9. She spent 6+ years working as systems engineer and deputy contamination control lead for the Mars 2020 project. Her focus on Mars 2020 was on the Sample Caching System which has since successfully cored multiple Mars rock samples intended to be brought back to Earth on a future mission. After launch, Lauren joined the engineering operations group and became a Mars 2020 Vehicle Systems Engineer working from mission control to operate the rover on the surface of Mars.