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Sep
17

Good to Know: Maureen Conroy ’72, math major with a stellar story

Here’s a good lesson for who was ever really, really good at one thing and really, really interested in another:

You can use one to get to the other.

Case in point is Maureen Conroy, a gifted math student and fan of space exploration who landed in a field that combines both, as a software designer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass. There, among other things, she headed the team that designed software for the famous Chandra space telescope.

And although, as Conroy is quick to note, she is not an astronomer, her work quite clearly applies math and technology to man’s, and woman’s,  enormous reach to the sky.  Click  here to read about Maureen Conroy

Maureen Conroy '72 designs software at the Smithsonian-Harvard Center for Astrophysics, in Cambridge, Mass.

About the author

Jane Gottlieb

Good to Know is a series of posts about Saint Rose, academic and otherwise. "Good" will also be used to alert readers to longer stories that will be posted on the College web site. Writer Jane Gottlieb works in the Office of Public Relations and Strategic Communications and writes the alumni magazine.

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