Marianna Yanes, a two-year Arizona Space Grant Intern/Intern Advisor, and a first-generation college student, was one of only two University of Arizona (UA) undergraduate students selected to receive a prestigious Arizona Centennial Achievement Award at the...
This past Antarctic summer, 2014 UA Space Grant Undergraduate Casey Honniball and a group of scientists from the UA Steward Observatory Radio Astronomy Laboratory, Arizona State University, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research, and...
Teams from UA, ASU, ERAU, SMCC, PCC and GCC celebrate the 16th successful launch and recovery of the AZSGC ASCEND! (BalloonSat) Program on November 23, 2013.
One of the most effective vehicles for engagement of community college students in STEM activities in Arizona has been AZSGC’s ASCEND (Aerospace STEM Challenges to Educate New Discoverers) statewide workforce development program, in which teams of students from affiliate...
A wonderful evening at the premiere of "Desert Moon," created by FY 2013 UA/NASA Space Grant Graduate Fellow Jason Davis, and narrated by retired astronaut Mark Kelly. It was an inspirational and long-overdue opportunity to pay homage to Ewen Whitaker, Robert...
Congratulations to Dr. Barron Orr, Arizona Space Grant Associate Director, who was chosen as a member of a United Nations panel that will translate the science of desertification into potential policy changes! The U.N. has sought to achieve a land-degradation...
“I was awarded the recognition of "Outstanding Dissertation" at the School of Natural Resources and the Environment awards ceremony this afternoon. I can hardly believe it! I want to thank you and the NASA Space Grant Consortium, again, for my fellowship allowing me to work...
First Nation Team Mentors also have strong connections to Space Grant. Kyle Winfree a NAU Assistant Professor of Informatics/Computing was a 2003 NAU/NASA Space Grant Undergraduate Research Intern. David Cole served for many years as the NAU/Space Grant Assistant Director. ...
Congratulations to 2006 NASA Space Grant Intern Melissa L. Sevigny for her new book, Under Desert Skies! The book originates from a LPL oral history project during Melissa's Space Grant internship mentored by LPL director Dr. Mike Drake. Under Desert Skies...
Since joining AZSGC in 2008, SMCC has been phenomenally successful at using their involvement in the AZSGC ASCEND! (balloon sat) program to engage students, and ultimately reshape the college’s engineering program. ASCEND! began at SMCC as an extracurricular project for...
Jeff Wheeler is currently a Product Manager at PLEXSYS Interface Products in Camas, WA. Jeff was a 2006 Space Grant student with the ASCEND! program while obtaining his Electrical Engineer degree. While at NAU, Jeff also was a 4 year starter on the NAU football team and a 3...
We lost a dear friend and force for good with the passing of long-time UA/NASA Steering Committee Member and associate dean of the UA’s Graduate College Maria Teresa Velez on April 13. Our sense of loss and commitment to carry on her impressive legacy is beautifully captured...
FY 2014 ASU/NASA Space Grant Graduate Fellow Michael Thompson, a Hispanic PhD student in Mechanical Engineering, serves as ASU's Academic Director for the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE). He is passionately interested in the development of biomimetically...
A new documentary tells the story of how the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Lab was founded and its groundbreaking work that helped the U.S. win the space race. FY2013 Space Grant Fellow Jason Davis explores this rich history of UA's involvement...
2016 AZ/NASA Space Grant ASCEND Team from Dine College after a successful payloads launch and recovery April 19, 2016. Photo courtesy of ANSR.
A new exhibit at Flandrau Planetarium & Science Center, “Puzzles, Proofs and Patterns” features the work of FY 2014 Space Grant Fellow Joseph Thomas. He created "Geometry in Context," featuring a series of short films used as teaching aids in high school geometry classes...
During his Ph.D. program, FY 2011, 2012 Space Grant Fellow, Casey Kahn-Thornbrugh, went to work as an adjunct geography instructor at Tohono O’odham Community College (TOCC) on the Tohono O’odham Nation. While being an Alfred P. Sloan Indigenous Graduate...
Planetary Resources, a company headed by 1993 Space Grant Intern, Chris Lewicki, is taking its first steps towards mining asteroids by setting its launch for October 24th. The satellite will take the opportunity to test the company's software and hardware models. The next...
Arizona Space Grant Intern Brandon Wagner, a 2012 graduate of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU) in Prescott, Arizona, has been hired as the ISS Payload Integration Manager for The Boeing Company. At ERAU, he was awarded FY 2011 and 2012 Space Grant Undergraduate...
While a student at NAU, Dr. Gregory Mace participated in two Space Grant Internships. He worked closely with Dr. Lisa Prato at Lowell Observatory to study young, low-mass stars. This work combined almost 20 years of astronomical observations...
Congratulations to ASU's Dust Devils Microgravity team for their trip to JSC! Way to go ASU Dust Devils! Way to go Space Grant Interns!!! Pictured are Jack Lightholder, team lead, Alison Gibson, engineering lead, and Liz Dyer, science lead. They were fortunate enough to be on...
PCC was one of the first two community colleges in Arizona to join the ASCEND! program in 2008. Most of our students are volunteers, and balance the demands of academics, work and family, to participate in this project. They have created innovative and dynamic payloads,...
FY 2012 Space Grant Intern, M. Patrick Martin, has developed a web facility to allow both professional and amateur astronomers to digitally enhance images of cometary comae. Patrick, a University of Arizona junior majoring in mathematics, computer science,...
Congratulations to Space Grant Mentor, Chris Impey, for receiving a $1 million grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute to support him in improving education for undergraduates. Dr. Impey is the first astronomer and UA professor to receive this...
Dr. Orianna Bretschger is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Microbial and Environmental Genomics at the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI), San Diego. She earned her B.S. in physics and astronomy from Northern Arizona University (1999), and Ph.D. in Materials Science...
Arizona Space Grant Consortium is the proud sponsor of a balloon sat faculty mentor and team leaders from 7 community colleges to the 2016 RockOn Workshop at NASA Wallops! Pictured are William Stein (GCC), Bianca Pina (GCC), Roslyn Norman (PCC W) and William Carroll (PCC NW...
Teams from UA, ASU, ERAU, SMCC, PCC, GCC, EMCC, PC and CAC celebrate the successful launch and recovery of the 20th and 21st AZSGC ASCEND! (BalloonSat) Program on November 21, 2015.
WELCOME to the website of the Arizona Space Grant Consortium (AZSGC)!
Our consortium, led by a statewide team of managers and affiliate representatives, is part of The National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program, established by Congress in 1987. Space Grant contributes to the nation's science enterprise by implementing research, education and public service projects through a national network of university-based Space Grant consortia. The original Space Grant competition resulted in the selection of 21 independent consortia (including Arizona's!). Subsequently, Space Grant consortia have been established in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. Nationally, the Space Grant network has 830 affiliate members from academia, industry, government agencies, the military and nonprofit institutions. 32 of these are members and partners of Arizona's Space Grant Consortium.
The specific objectives of the program are:
The AZSGC mission is to expand opportunities for Americans to learn about and participate in NASA's aeronautics and space programs by supporting and enhancing science, and engineering education, research, and delivering high quality public education programs. Our goal is to integrate research with education to help build a diverse, scientifically literate citizenry and a well-prepared science, engineering and technology workforce. We are proud of our students, programs and accomplishments and appreciate your interest in AZSGC!
Arizona/NASA Space Grant
The University of Arizona
1629 E. University Blvd.
Tucson, AZ 85721-0092
Phone: (520) 621-8556
