Loyola Marymount University is a top-ranked national university by U.S. News and World Report, which places LMU among the top six Jesuit universities in the country and in the top six private universities in California. Founded in 1911, LMU is a Catholic, Jesuit, and Marymount university with more than 7,100 undergraduate students and more than 3,000 graduate and law students. LMU offers 56 undergraduate majors and 56 minor programs, along with 46 master’s degree programs, three doctorate programs and 12 credential/authorization programs. LMU’s intercollegiate athletics teams compete in the West Coast Conference with 14 Division I varsity sports.

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Mary Magilligan is a mechanical engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory who has worked on the Mars2020 Perseverance Rover, VITAL (Ventilator Intervention Technology Accessible Locally), Europa Clipper and various space mission concept studies. She was a vehicle engineer and a payload design engineer on commercial and government satellite payloads for Boeing. Mary graduated from University at Buffalo with a BS in Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering and a Computer Science minor then received a MS in Systems Engineering with a Mechanical Engineering technical focus from Loyola Marymount University.

Mary Magilligan

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University at Buffalo

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