UA/NASA Space Grant Graduate Fellow Nick Rattray was awared a Fulbright Grant to study disability issues in Ecuador.
Congradulations Nick!
Dr. Natasha Johnson was one of our first UA/NASA Space Grant Interns. She graduated from the University of Arizona in 1991 with BS degrees in Math, Geology, Computer Science and Physcis. She is currently working at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Extraterrestrial Physics as a National Research Council Resident Research Associate and has written many publications to support her work.
1999 Space Grant Fellow Margaret Turnbull was featuring in a CNN article titled, "Genuisnes who will change your life" for her research concerning aliens.
"Turnbull's mind-blowing patience has paid off. In 2015, NASA will be launching its Terrestrial Planet Finder, which will use space telescopes to look for planets beyond our solar system, and it'll start with the stars on Turnbull's short list. In other words, nobody's laughing at Turnbull's search for aliens now" (Eric Furman, CNN).
Adria Brooks, 2006 UA Space Grant Intern and OSIRIS student Deputy-Principal Investigator, has been awarded a NASA Motivating Undergraduates in Science and Technology (MUST) scholarship. As part of this scholarship Adria receives a one-year tuition scholarship of $10,000 and a $5,000 stipend to participate in a summer research experience at a NASA center.
Congratulations Adria!
2006-2007 UA Undergraduate Research Intern Daivd Zahn was featured in the University of Arizona's weekley success stories for his lab work with Dr. Yurkanin and he goals of attending medical school in 2008.
2006-2007 University of Arizona Undergraduate Research Intern Brent Morgan was featured in a UA Physics article for his placement in the world's best rubik's championship. He placed 20th amung over 300 people from around the world.
Eric Schwartz is a NASA Space Grant intern at the Arizona Daily Star. He is attending the American Association for the Advancement of Science general meeting this weekend as a student journalist with the National Association of Science Writers...
Astronomy & Physics major Mary Anne Peters has been awarded the College of Science excellence in Undergraduate Research Award for 2008. She won this award for her work with Astronomy Professor Laird Close on BESSEL, which is an instrument for the Steward Observatory telescope. This instrument tested new technology (in collaboration with OSC Professor Grover Swartzlander and OSC graduate student Erin Ford) on-sky for the first time. This technology may, in the future, be utilized to image planets in other star systems. This is exciting because imaging extrasolar planets enables one to determine whether there is life beyond the Earth.
We are really proud of Yuri Robeson, an exceptional student and wonderful human being. Yuri credits her Space Grant experience with teaching her that "everything is possible" and helping her discover and take advantage of a wealth of opportunities along her educational path. Utilizing many NASA education program "linkages"--a Space Grant Internship to a NASA MUST Scholarship to NASA Zero Gravity program participation, to acceptance into the NASA Robotics Academy--Yuri is well on her way to fulfilling her goal of joining the NASA workforce!
Three of our new 2008-2009 University of Arizona/NASA Space Grant Undergraduate Research Interns were featured in a UANews article that was release on Friday September 12, 2008. Erin Boyd, Adriana Riggs, and Jennifer Stanley, all of whom are Navajo Nation University of Arizona students show how important Internships are for undergrads.