Dava Newman

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Dava J. Newman
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Newman in October 2023
13th Deputy administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
In office
May 15, 2015 January 20, 2017

Select honors include named among World's Most Influential Women Engineers (2021), [25] Lowell Thomas Award (Explorer's Club (2018), the NASA Distinguished Service Medal (2017), Women in Aerospace Leadership Award (2017), and the Aerospace Medical Association's Henry L. Taylor Award for Outstanding Accomplishment in Aerospace Human Factors (2017). Her BioSuit spacesuit system has been exhibited at the Venice Biennial (2015), the American Museum of Natural History (2012), the Victoria and Albert and Museum, London (2012), the Paris City Museum of Science and Industry (2010), the London Museum of Science and Industry (2009), and the Metropolitan Museum of Art (2008). She was awarded Best Invention of 2007 by Time magazine, named in 100 Extraordinary Women Engineers in 2004, and received the Women in Aerospace National Aerospace Educator Award (2001).

Newman is a former housemaster of MIT's Baker House. [26] [27]

Partial bibliography

References

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