Kristine Ferrone (MCS 2004)
2010 Outstanding Recent Alumni Award
Kristine Ferrone is a role model for women in the sciences — someone who has had remarkable success during her short career as a result of taking risks. Ferrone first worked as a researcher a Brookhaven National Laboratory and then earned an MBA at the University of Florida.
After graduate school, she became a senior mission scientist for the International Space Station and later joined the NASA Johnson Space Center's Flight Planning Branch as an International Space Station flight controller. She spent a month at the Mars Society's Flashline Mars Arctic Research Station in 2009, where a six-member crew lived and worked in the Canadian polar desert to simulate a mission to the Martian surface. Ferrone also has conducted admissions interviews and represented the university at college fairs as a Carnegie Mellon Alumni Council volunteer.