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Joan M. Centrella '71, astrophysicist; head of the Gravitational Astrophysics Laboratory at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.

Joan M. Plaisted

She received her early education in Willmar, Minnesota, and earned her B.A in International Relations and M.A. in Asian Studies from the School of International Service at American University in Washington, D.C., in 1967, as well as graduating from the University of Grenoble in 1967.

She is a career diplomat of the United States Foreign Service, and was the United States Ambassador to the Marshall Islands and Kiribati from 1995 to 2000 concurrently, while resident at Majuro.


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