Marla Geha

Geha is a professor and astrophysicist at Yale University.   Her research uses the world’s largest telescopes to understand the Universe’s smallest galaxies.  Geha obtained a B.S. in Applied and Engineering Physics from Cornell University and a PhD in Astrophysics from University of California Santa Cruz.    She has received honors including an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow, a John S. Guggenheim Fellowship, and Yale’s Dylan Hixon’88 Prize for teaching excellence in the natural sciences.   Geha serves on the executive board of the Warrior Scholar Project and is the director of the Research Experience for Veteran Undergraduates (REVU) program.