UA Space Grant Success Stories

Stephany Maldonado's poster was titled "Testing Different Hydroxyapatite Particles in Cell Culture ." Stephany is a UArizona student majoring in Biomedical Sciences. She works with Dr. John Szivek from the Orthopaedic Surgery Department.

and we are proud to see Brooke Carruthers (AY20-22 UArizona Space Grant Intern) recognized with the James B. Willett Education Memorial Scholarship.

Arizona Space Grant supports two students in NASA Center Internships during Summer 2022! Check out Rosemary Ferreira and Zane Green's story to learn more about their progress this summer and how you can apply for these opportunities. Internships occur each Fall, Spring, and Summer.

UArizona Space Grant mentor, Dr. Xubin Zeng, took Annalisa to NASA Langley last month to see first-hand how the data for her project is collected!

Jacob's poster is titled "Persistence of soil respiration legacies induced by temporally repackaged summer rainfall in the Sonoran Desert grasslands."

Clark says of his Space Grant experience, "I can't thank the Arizona Space Grant program enough for starting me on this track."

2018-20 Space Grant Interns, Reman Almusawi (right) and Ruby O'Brien-Metzger (left), are authors on a recently published article in collaboration with their Space Grant mentors. The article is titled "Outdoor/Indoor Contaminant Transport by Atmospheric Dust and Aerosol at an Active Smelter Site".

Space Grant Intern, Josh Crest, interviewed by KOLD News 13 about his work on pico-balloon systems!

"Betül Kaçar's group explores the evolution of reconstructed ancient proteins and why life on Earth chose the chemical elements it did." Find out more in this article written by Space Grant mentor, Daniel Stolte, and congratulations to the team!