French has spent much of his life scanning the heavens. He does his stargazing as Wellesley College’s Dean of Academic Affairs, Professor of Astronomy, and Director of Whitin Observatory. He also serves as a science team leader of NASA’s Cassini Mission to Saturn. French challenges his students to find “our place in space and time.” A lover of sailing and whales, he looks forward to a chance to “spend the entire summer (re)reading Moby-Dick, Shakespeare’s plays, the philosophy of science, and eventually all of Simenon’s mysteries in French.”