The University of Minnesota Morris will welcome Moriba Jah as its Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Liberal Arts.
Moriba Jah describes himself as a space environmentalist, specializing in space object detection, tracking, identification, and characterization, as well as spacecraft navigation. Jah's published works include the areas of space situational awareness, space traffic management, spacecraft navigation, space surveillance and tracking, multi-source information fusion, and intersection with space security and safety.
Jah will deliver a keynote lecture, "A Case for Space Environmentalism," on Thursday, March 20, as well as participate in other campus events, including classroom visits and discussions.
About Jah
Jah is a professor at the University of Texas at Austin, a co-founder and Chief Scientist of GaiaVerse and Privateer Space Inc., and a Distinguished Scholar with the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law. He has served as a member of the delegation at the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space. He also co-founded Moriba Jah Universal, LLC, in order to co-create media, art, and entertainment across a variety of platforms aimed at taking Space Environmentalism mainstream to spread awareness about space debris—the ever-growing threat to humanity that most people don’t know exists.
About the Elizabeth S. Blake Distinguished Visiting Professorship
The Elizabeth S. Blake Distinguished Visiting Professorship in the Liberal Arts (DVPLA) is held on a short-term basis by a faculty member from another college or university who is a recognized authority in his or her field. It is awarded in rotation to each of UMN Morris’s four academic divisions: humanities, science and mathematics, social science, and education.
Under the vision of Blake, professor emeritus who served as vice chancellor for academic affairs and dean at UMN Morris from 1979 until 1995, the DVPLA was created “to celebrate and strengthen the success of the University of Minnesota Morris as an undergraduate liberal arts campus and to contribute to its continuing quest for high distinction in baccalaureate education.”