ASU Space Grant Success Stories

Across the state, Arizona Space Grant awards over 150 internships each year. Interns play critical roles in the research happening at our universities, research centers, within local industry, and at NASA Centers. Read about ASU JPL intern, Megan Miller, and her experience as an intern this summer.

Marquez was one of three Interplanetary Initiative students who received an ASU NASA Space Grant internship for AY23-24, enabling him to embark on a self-directed project exploring the use of AI-powered chatbots for exoplanet research

Burgard is graduating in May with a bachelor’s degree in environmental engineering, a Spanish minor and a certificate in environmental humanities, with honors from Barrett, The Honors College at ASU. She put her skills into action through research, community service and entrepreneurship.

As an ASU NASA Space Grant recipient and intern, Ortiz assisted with the processing of James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) cosmic ray rejection data, which cleans JWST images by identifying and removing stray cosmic rays from images.

Ritisha Das, a Senior studying Mechanical Engineering and Mathematics with an emphasis in computational mechanics at Arizona State University, was one of 47 student awardees.

Hailing from diverse backgrounds, each of the selected students is pursuing a degree in the Interplanetary Initiative’s technological leadership program, a unique degree that prepares students to answer tomorrow’s questions in the fields of science and technology.

"I had the opportunity to work on the SLS's onboard camera system for Artemis 4."

Kathryn Chamberlin, a NASA JPL Electronics Engineer, says "Because of Space Grant, I was inspired to pursue graduate school at ASU and worked on a research project that enabled me to be hired at NASA JPL.”

During her time at ASU, Erin worked in Everett Shock’s lab evaluating spatial and temporal variability in hot spring chemistry by synthesizing 20 years of data.