The New York Times reported that Maureen Raymo ’82 has been appointed the interim director of the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University, becoming the first woman scientist and the first climate scientist to head Lamont. In 2014, she was the first woman to receive the Wollaston Medal, the Geological Society of London’s highest accolade. Her scientific work has established her as one of the most influential earth scientists of her generation.
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