NAU Space Grant Success Stories

NAU has a couple of Space Grant students who were selected as NAU Golden Axe awardees. One is a past intern from 2015 (Kiril Kirkov) who was also awarded the

Paula was a N.A.S.A. Space Grant intern for the 2011-2012 academic year. During that year she worked with Dr. Lisa Prato at Lowell Observatory studying the accretion disks around binary

Kendra Kellogg is currently in her final year of her PhD at The University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, Canada. She was a Space Grant intern for the 2009-2010 school year working with Dr. Lisa Prato at Lowell Observatory.

The Arizona Space Grant was an amazing opportunity for me and laid the foundation for my research trajectory and success in my postgraduate studies. I was a Space Grant intern from 2006-2007 and I worked with my mentor, Dr. Tim Titus, at the U.S. Geological Survey in Flagstaff, researching carbon dioxide snowstorms on Mars.

First Nation Team Mentors also have strong connections to Space Grant. Kyle Winfree a NAU Assistant Professor of Informatics/Computing was a 2003 NAU/NASA Space Grant Undergraduate Research Intern. David Cole

I got involved with NASA’s outreach programs through the Changes in Altitude program in 2003 as an 8th grader at the Tuba City Boarding School (TCBS) in Tuba City, AZ

Dozens of NAU graduating seniors received honors in November of 2015, recognizing them for their contributions to Northern Arizona University. Twenty-two students received the university’s coveted Gold Axe Award for