Geekspace for Women

Posted by ubergeeke on November 13th, 2008 in blogpost

Earlier this fall, the 15th Allan Severson Memorial Award was presented to Nancy Rabel Hall (KC4IYD), a NASA research scientist and aerospace engineer as well as a long-time ham operator. Hall’s main area of expertise is fluid physics, and she’s currently one of the technical leads in the Space Processes and Experiments Division at the Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio. Hall has worked for NASA for 18 years, and is also the president of the NASA Glenn Amateur Radio Club.

The Allan Severson Memorial Award is the highest honor of the Ohio Section of the American Radio Relay League. Hall is one of only four women who have received the award since its inception.

This is not Hall’s first award of excellence. In 2002, she won NASA’s Exceptional Achievement Medal for her “unmatched initiative, dedication and volunteer service in educational outreach”.

I don’t often use the word “inspirational”, but her NASA bio is exactly that. For more information about Nancy Rabel Hall, visit these sites:

http://quest.nasa.gov/people/bios/women/halln.html
http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2002/08/08/1/?nc=1

http://www.arrlohio.org/arrl_allan_severson.htm