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Faber, Sandra Moore was born on December 28, 1944 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Daughter of Donald Edwin and Elizabeth Mackenzie (Borwick) Moore.
Faber, Sandra Moore was born on December 28, 1944 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Daughter of Donald Edwin and Elizabeth Mackenzie (Borwick) Moore.
Bachelor, Swarthmore College, 1966. Doctor of Science (honorary), Swarthmore College, 1986. Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1972.
Doctor of Science with honors, Williams College, 1996. Doctor of Science with honors, Chicago University, 2006.
Assistant professor, assistant astronomer Lick Observatory, University California, Santa Cruz, 1972-1977, associate professor, associate astronomer, 1977-1979, professor, astronomer, since 1979. University Professor University California, since 1996, chair astronomy department, since 2005. Member astronomy advisory panel National Science Foundation, 1975-1977.
Visiting professor Princeton University, 1978, University Hawaii, 1983, Arizona State University, 1985. Phillips visitor Haverford College, 1982. Feshbach lecturer Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1990.
Darwin lecturer Royal Astronomical Society, 1991. Marker lecturer Pennsylvania State University, 1992. Bunyan lecturer Stanford University, 1992.
Tomkins lecturer University California, San Francisco, 1992. Mohler lecturer University Michigan, 1994. Member National Academy Astronomy Survey Panel, 1979-1981, National Academy Committee on Astronomy and Astrophysics 1993-1995.
Chairman visiting committee Space Telescope Science Institute, 1983-1984, Bahcall lecturer, 2009. Co-chairman TAC review commission, 2002, member treasurer program advisory commission, since 2002. Co-chairman science steering committee Keck Observatory, 1987-1992, leader DEIMOS spectrograph team, since 1993.
Member Wide Field Camera team Hubble Space Telescope, 1985-1997, user's committee, 1990-1992, member advanced radial camera selection team, 1995,co-chairman TAC review communications, 2002. Member treasurer pgm. advis. communications since 2002. Member California Council on Science and Technology, 1989-1994.
Committee on Future Smithsonian Institution, 1994-1995. Member White House Space Science Workshop, 1996, Waterman Awards Committee, National Science Foundation, 1997-1999, National Medal of Science selection committee, 1999-2001. Member Plumian Professor selection committee Cambridge University, since 1998, Ceclia Payne Gaposchkin lecturer Howard College Observatory, 2004, Halley lecturer astronomy department, Oxford University, 2004, Miller visiting professor, University California, 2005, Sackler lecturer physics department, Princeton University, 2005, Ehrenfest lecturer Leiden University, 2005.
Einstein lecturer Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 2006, board overseas Howard University, since 2006.
Trustee Carnegie Institution, Washington, since 1985. Board directors Annual Revs., since 1989, Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute, 1997-2006. Editorial affairs committee Annual Revs., 1996^.
Executive committee Annual Revs., since 1998. Scripps Institution Oceanography Council, 2000-2008. Board overseers Fermilab, 2002-2006, Harvard board directors, since 2006.
Fellow California Council on Science and Technology, American Association for the Advancement of Science. Member National Academy of Sciences (vice chair advisory panel on cosmology 1993, research in astronomy commission on organization and management astrophysics 2001, chair Spitzer Space Telescope Time Assignment Communications 2008, chair astronomy section), American Philosophical Society of America Academy Arts and Sciences, California Academy of Sciences, since 1998, American Astronomical Society (councilor 1982-1984, Dannie Heineman prize 1986, Russel award Selection Committee, since 2008, Dan David prize, 2008), International Astronomical Union, American Philosophical Society, Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi.
Married Andrew L. Faber, June 9, 1967. Children: Robin, Holly.