Michael Watkins Named Next JPL Director

Michael Watkins Named Next JPL Director Pasadena CA (JPL) May 06, 2016 - Michael M. Watkins, the Clare Cockrell Williams Centennial Chair in Aerospace Engineering and Director of the Center for Space Research at The University of Texas at Austin, has been appointed director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and vice president at Caltech, the Institute announced this week. Watkins will formally assume his position on July 1, 2016. He succeeds Charles Elachi, who ... more

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