Alumna Tammy Ma Receives Presidential Early Career Award

Aerospace alumna Tammy Y. Ma (BS ’05, AE) who is a physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is a recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). This is the highest honor bestowed by the United States Government on science and engineering professionals in the early stages of their independent research careers. The other Caltech alumni who received the award were Alon A. Gorodetsky (PhD ’09, Chemistry), Jonathan Simon (BS ’04, Physics), and Viviana Gradinaru (BS ’05, Biology). [White House Release]