Morgan Cable '05
Morgan grew up in Cape Canaveral, Florida, and was exposed to space exploration and planetary science at an early age through the Kennedy Space Center. She found FAU's Wilkes Honors College to be a "perfect fit" because of "the small class sizes, closely-knit student community, and the opportunity to do research working alongside Ph.D. professors and publish in peer-reviewed journals.
"As a chemistry major, I received a much broader education than I would have elsewhere, with exposure to topics such as interpretation of poetry and ancient Greek philosophy in the same building where I also took organic chemistry and quantum physics. This education prepared me very well for the rigors of graduate school at the prestigious California Institute of Technology. I was able to think outside of the box and find creative solutions to problems that other students trained only in the pure sciences failed to see."
Morgan is a postdoctoral fellow at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. She earned her Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry from the California Institute of Technology in 2010. She enjoys surfing, soccer, flying Cessna 172s, mountain unicycling, and teaching at a space camp in Seoul, Korea. She aspires to continue working through NASA to discover more about the universe and our place in it, and to pursue her dream of becoming a NASA Mission Specialist.