Ricky Arnold to speak at MEES Colloquium

Adrian Jones ·
14 October 2009


Ricky ArnoldMEES graduate and NASA astronaut, Richard Arnold, will be the guest of honor at the MEES Colloquium on Thursday Nov. 12th at the Banneker-Douglass Museum. Born in Cheverly and raised in Bowie, Maryland, Richard Arnold earned his M.S. from the MEES program in 1992 under the guidance of Dr. Bill Dennison. He was part of the crew on Space Shuttle Discovery mission STS-119 in March 2009 which delivered the final pair of power-generating solar array wings and truss element to the International Space Station.

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Adrian Jones

Adrian has over 25 years experience in software development. He loves the challenge of building interactive data visualization tools, from the database to the front-end. He has worked with a wide range of businesses, universities, governmental, and non-governmental organizations around the world.

He also enjoys contributing to open source software and avidly follows the latest web and app development tools and frameworks.



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