FY 2009 Space Grant Intern, Denise Garcia, a first-generation graduate student, will graduate with a Master's of Science in ecology and management of rangelands from the UA's School of Natural Resources and the Environment. She is working in conjunction with the Arizona Bureau of Land Management and the Gila Watershed Partnership in assessing land cover change of Southeastern Arizona.

FY 2010, 2011 Space Grant Fellow, Monica Ramirez-Andreotta, is the fourteenth recipient of the annual Karen Wetterhahn Memorial Award. The award, which recognizes an outstanding graduate or postdoctoral researcher who demonstrates scientific excellence, was presented at the NIEHS Superfund Research Program (SRP) annual meeting Oct. 25 in Lexington, Ky. Ramirez-Andreotta is credited for her commitment to engaging residents of the local community in her research and empowering them with her results. After graduation, Garcia hopes to pursue a doctorate degree and join the Peace Corps, and professionally, her interests are focused in the local efforts of sustainable management of the environment in Northern Mexico.

Public health graduate student Deanna Lewis received the YWCA Women on the Move Award at a banquet on Sunday at the Westin La Paloma. Lewis is a physician's assistant who founded the Dequenesh Community Health Clinic to treat the uninsured, under-insured and working poor. She is a DrPH student in the Maternal and Child Health program at the University of Arizona Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health. She is also the recepient of the 4CS-11 outstanding paper award from the American Physical Society, which recognizes her team's success with their PV outreach and education program.

FY 2000 Space Grant Intern, Sherri Heck, a research scientist from the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), measures the carbon dioxide levels in rural areas around the world. The trip to Kenya was funded by NCAR in support of Sherri’s research and included a science outreach component.

Congratulations to FY 2011 Space Grant Intern, Michael Schaffner, selected one of 74 students from over 850 applicants across the nation to present his Space Grant research on Capitol Hill!  Michael will exhibit a poster, “Water on the Moon: Remote Sensing from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter”, detailing his work with Dr. William Boynton from the Lunar & Planetary Laboratory at the Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) Posters on the Hill 2012 event April 24, 2012.

FY 2007, 2008 Space Grant Intern, Chelsea Hodson, was awarded the PEN Center Emerging Voices Fellowship. Originally from Phoenix, she received her BA in journalism from the University of Arizona in 2009. She has worked as a Space Grant intern for NASA’s Phoenix Mars Mission. Her chapbook, BEACH CAMP, was published in 2010. Chelsea lives in Los Angeles and is writing an essay collection.