Megan Donahue

Michigan State University

Donahue grew up on a farm near Inland, Nebraska, a town of about sixty people. Her undergraduate physics S.B. degree is from MIT (1985) and her astrophysics Ph.D. is from the University of Colorado, Boulder (1990). Her post-doctoral research in observational astronomy was completed at the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, in Pasadena, California and at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Maryland. She joined STScI as a staff astronomer in 1995 working on astrophysics research, data archiving for the Hubble Space Telescope, and the development of the James Webb Space Telescope. In 2003, she moved to Michigan State University and re-entered academic life as a professor in the MSU Physics and Astronomy Department, in East Lansing, Michigan. She and her husband, Mark Voit have three adult children, Michaela, Sebastian, and Angela.