Martha Patricia Haynes

Martha P. Haynes graduated with special honors from Wellesley College  and received her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in astronomy from Indiana University. From 1978-1981, she served on the staff of the Arecibo Observatory of the National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center in Puerto Rico and from 1981-83 was the Assistant Director for Green Bank (WV) Operations of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory. She joined the Cornell faculty in 1983 and is now the Goldwin Smith Professor of Astronomy. She has served on numerous institutional, observatory, and federal agency boards and advisory committees and recently served as a Vice-President of the International Astronomical Union. Her scientific research concentrates on observational cosmology, galaxy evolution and radio astronomy techniques. In 1989 she received the Henry Draper Medal for her scientific work on mapping the three-dimensional filamentary large-scale structures in the local universe. She is also the research leader for a collaboration designed to foster engagement of faculty and students at principally undergraduate teaching institutions in astronomy survey projects.