UA Space Grant Success Stories

Portrait of Marissa Heffernan

2018-19 Space Grant Intern, Marissa Heffernan, reports on current UA student research at AZ Daily Star.

A group of UA students is working to install generators that make drinking water out of humid air in impoverished communities in Peru.

Illustration of the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft arriving at asteroid Bennu.

Congratulations to 1992 Space Grant Intern, Dante Lauretta and Team: OSIRIS-REx Arrives at Bennu!

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft arrives at asteroid Bennu after more than two years traveling through space.

Ruby O'Brien-Metzger poses in the Superfund Dust Lab.

2018-19 Space Grant Intern, Ruby O'Brien-Metzger, featured on KXCI's Thesis Thursday!

Ruby O'Brien-Metzger, discusses her research in the UA Superfund Dust Laboratory.

Space Grant students stand on boulders in a creek at Seven Falls, AZ.

University of Arizona Space Grant Advisors and Interns hike Seven Falls!

University of Arizona Space Grant Intern Advisors planned a hike up to Seven Falls on Nov. 17th to enjoy the beautiful Fall weather.

A caterpillar of the cotton bollworm (Helicoverpa armigera) readies to devour a boll of cotton. (Photo: Wenxue Pan/Nanjing University)

Article on genetics by 2017 - 2019 UA Space Grant Intern, Emily Walla, published in UANews!

Emily works with her mentor, Daniel Stolte, for UA News as a science communication writer. She is an astronomy and physics Junior.

A large group of UA Space Grant Interns, SEDS and Astronomy Club members watch sunset at Kitt Peak Observatory, with telescopes in background.

UA Space Grant Interns, SEDS and Astronomy Club students join for Kitt Peak Star Party

University of Arizona (UA) NASA Space Grant interns, fellows, mentors, and UA Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS) club joined together this past weekend for an educational trip to Kitt Peak National Observatory.

Reman Almusawi poses in front of trees

2018 Space Grant Intern Reman Almusawi featured on KXCI's Thesis Thursday

I am a team member in the Superfund Research Laboratory. I am working on studying mining sites and smelting operations. I’m mostly focused on the active mine near Hayden/Winkelman.

Cathryn Sephus, top left, and Betul Kacar, second from left, pose with members of the Kacar Lab. Betul Kacar holds her child.

2018 Space Grant Intern Cathryn Sephus' work with mentor Betul Kacar featured in Daily Wildcat!

"Cathryn Sephus, a molecular and cellular biology senior with a minor in astronomical studies, joined Kacar’s research group this semester after being awarded the Arizona Space Grant in astrobiology."

Artist rendering of NASA's OSIRIS-REx space probe. Source: NASA

Congratulations to 1992 UA Space Grant Intern Dante Lauretta: OSIRIS-REx is On Its Way to Bennu!

Bennu was spotted by O-REx for the first time on Aug. 17 from a distance of more than 1.3 million miles. “It was right there where we thought it would be,” said Dante Lauretta, OSIRIS-REx principal investigator at the University of Arizona in Tucson.