UA Space Grant Success Stories

Reman Almusawi poses in front of trees

2018 Space Grant Intern Reman Almusawi featured on KXCI's Thesis Thursday

I am a team member in the Superfund Research Laboratory. I am working on studying mining sites and smelting operations. I’m mostly focused on the active mine near Hayden/Winkelman.

Cathryn Sephus, top left, and Betul Kacar, second from left, pose with members of the Kacar Lab. Betul Kacar holds her child.

2018 Space Grant Intern Cathryn Sephus' work with mentor Betul Kacar featured in Daily Wildcat!

"Cathryn Sephus, a molecular and cellular biology senior with a minor in astronomical studies, joined Kacar’s research group this semester after being awarded the Arizona Space Grant in astrobiology."

Artist rendering of NASA's OSIRIS-REx space probe. Source: NASA

Congratulations to 1992 UA Space Grant Intern Dante Lauretta: OSIRIS-REx is On Its Way to Bennu!

Bennu was spotted by O-REx for the first time on Aug. 17 from a distance of more than 1.3 million miles. “It was right there where we thought it would be,” said Dante Lauretta, OSIRIS-REx principal investigator at the University of Arizona in Tucson.

Mónica Ramírez-Andreotta, an assistant professor at the University of Arizona in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, shows samples of rainwater that were collected by citizens in parts of California and Arizona as part of Project Harvest.

Check out current research by AZSGC super star Mónica Ramírez-Andreotta.

Mónica was a UA/NASA Space Grant Undergraduate Research Intern and two-year Graduate Fellow. She’s now a UA assistant professor, still pursuing her Space Grant Fellowship effort to monitor the quality of vegetables grown in home gardens neighboring the Iron King Mine and Humboldt Smelter Superfund Site.

Jenny Calahan in front of window to UA MirrorLab

Jenny Calahan and Active Galactic Videos feature on Tom Scott's YouTube Channel, receiving nearly 300K views!

Congratulations to Jenny Calahan, 2017 UA/NASA Space Grant Intern and members of the UA Steward Observatory undergraduate students-run Active Galactic Videos YouTube channel team! Their video, describing the making of

Seifert, Laura

Congratulations to 2015/2016 AZ Space Grant Intern, Laura Seifert, recipient of a Student Scholar Award!

Congratulations to 2015/2016 AZ/NASA Space Grant Intern, Laura Seifert, recipient of a Student Scholar Award for her paper submitted to the Microscopy & Microanalysis Society!

McGraw, Allison

Congratulations to 2016 AZ Space Grant Intern, Allison McGraw, winner of the 2017 Dwornik Award!

Congratulations to 2016 AZ/NASA Space Grant Intern, Allison McGraw, winner of the 2017 Dwornik Award for Best Oral Presentation by an undergraduate student at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference!

Adriana Mitchell

Congratulations to 2017 AZ Space Grant Intern, Adriana Mitchell, Barry Goldwater Scholarship Awardee!

Congratulations to 2017 AZ/NASA Space Grant Intern, Adriana Mitchell, who was awarded the Barry Goldwater Scholarship, from the Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation!

Congratulations to Max von Hippel, recipient of the UA Mathematics Department Lusk Scholarship, and the UA Honors College Pillars of Excellence Award!

Congratulations to 2018 Space Grant Intern, Max von Hippel! Max has been awarded the Lusk Scholarship from the UA Mathematics Department, the Pillars of Excellence Award from the UA Honors College, and was nominated for both the Goldwater and Truman Scholarships from the UA Honors College.