
Dr. Michelle Creech-Eakman has been working for years on a project of astronomical proportions and she recently gave a TEDxABQ talk to a packed Popejoy Hall at University of New Mexico (UNM) in Albuquerque about this ambitious project and its unmatched capabilities. Dr. Creech-Eakman’s talk, “The Magdalena Ridge Observatory houses technology that will change our understanding of the universe”, described the array of ten telescopes that is being constructed on Magdalena Ridge. Creech-Eakman is Chair of the Physics Department at New Mexico Tech (NMT) and Project Scientist for the Magdalena Ridge Observatory Interferometer (MROI). TED, a prestigious national nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading was created in […]