France Anne Córdova (born 5 August 1947)(67) is an American astrophysicist, researcher and university administrator. She is the eleventh President of Purdue University.
Cordova was born in Paris, France, the oldest of twelve children born to a Mexican father and Irish American mother. She attended high school in La Puente, California, east of Los Angeles and went on to Stanford University, where she graduated cum laude with a bachelor's degree in...
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France Anne Córdova (born 5 August 1947)(67) is an American astrophysicist, researcher and university administrator. She is the eleventh President of Purdue University.
Cordova was born in Paris, France, the oldest of twelve children born to a Mexican father and Irish American mother. She attended high school in La Puente, California, east of Los Angeles and went on to Stanford University, where she graduated cum laude with a bachelor's degree in English and, among other activities, conducted anthropological field work in a Zapotec Indian pueblo in Oaxaca, Mexico. She earned a PhD in Physics from the California Institute of Technology in 1979.
Cordova worked at the Space Astronomy and Astrophysics Group at the Los Alamos National Laboratory from 1979 to 1989, where she also served as Deputy Group Leader, and headed the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at Pennsylvania State University from 1989 to 1993. From 1993 to 1996, she became the youngest person and first woman to hold...
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