FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<\/p>\n
Monday, April 15, 2019<\/p>\n
STEPHENVILLE, Texas —Amy Fritz, mechanical engineer and robotics specialist for NASA, will discuss “Robonaut 2: Technology for Earth and Space” as part of Tarleton State University’s Speaker Symposium series.<\/p>\n
The free, public event takes place at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 23, in Room 105 of the Lamar Johanson Science Building in Stephenville.<\/p>\n
Fritz, who works on the rover program at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, credits her parents for her interest in robotics.<\/p>\n
“I can remember when I was a little girl and my dad and I would build Legos together, or we would take the remote apart to see how it worked,” she said in a 2016 interview. “That really inspired me to want to pursue a career in engineering.”<\/p>\n
For more information about the Speaker Symposium Lecture Series and upcoming presenters, visit www.tarleton.edu\/speakersymposium<\/a>. For directions to Tarleton’s Lamar Johanson Science Building and maps of the Stephenville campus, visit www.tarleton.edu\/campus<\/a>.<\/p>\n Tarleton, founding member of The Texas A&M University System, provides a student-focused, value-driven education marked by academic innovation and a dedication to transform today’s scholars into tomorrow’s leaders. It offers degree programs to more than 13,000 students at Stephenville, Fort Worth, Waco, Midlothian, RELLIS Academic Alliance in Bryan, and online, emphasizing real-world learning experiences that address societal needs while maintaining its core values of tradition, integrity, civility, excellence, leadership and service.<\/p>\n Contact: Phil Riddle, News and Information Specialist Amy Fritz, mechanical engineer and robotics specialist for NASA, will discuss “Robonaut 2: Technology for Earth and Space” as part of Tarleton State University’s Speaker Symposium series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":27245,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[423,424],"tags":[441,442],"class_list":["post-27244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics-research","category-arts-events","tag-college-of-science-mathematics","tag-community-events"],"acf":{"image":null},"author_meta":{"display_name":"keegan","author_link":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/author\/keegan-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2\/"},"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2021\/11\/image-750-300x200.jpg","coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["Academics & Research<\/a>","Arts & Events<\/a>"],"unlinked":["Academics & Research<\/span>","Arts & Events<\/span>"]},"tags":{"linked":["College of Science & Mathematics<\/a>","Community Events<\/a>"],"unlinked":["College of Science & Mathematics<\/span>","Community Events<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":0,"relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 7 years ago","modified":"Updated 4 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on April 15, 2019","modified":"Updated on November 12, 2021"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on April 15, 2019 12:00 am","modified":"Updated on November 12, 2021 1:03 am"},"featured_img_caption":"Woman in a purple shirt with a robot in the background.","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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