Matthew Kirby
Graduate Research Fellows
Year
2017
I am a 5th year PhD student in the Department of Physics. The Pima Air and Space museum has a gallery devoted to space exploration and research. The gallery has become quite outdated and presents the gallery content in a very terse manner. This year, I will be working with the gallery’s curators to revitalize many of the exhibits in the Space Gallery. We will be building new exhibits to show off recent, space-based missions with exciting results such as Curiosity, LCROSS, the Hubble Space Telescope or Cassini. I will also be rewriting much of the existing content in the exhibit as well to make it more accessible to the many thousands of visitors to the gallery each year.