UA Space Grant Success Stories

Dante Lauretta, OSIRIS-REx PI and 1992 UA Space Grant Intern, is the recipient of The University of Arizona's Alumni Achievement Award for his work on designing, building, and launching a spacecraft to visit the carbonaceous asteroid Bennu.

Britney Schmidt, 2003 UA Space Grant Intern, is a co-author of a Europa study and helped develop key concepts for the Europa Clipper mission. Europa could be the best case

Todd Murphey, 1995 UA Space Grant Intern, has been using novel algorithmic tools to create robotic systems that can adapt to unpredictable humans. Murphey sees many possibilities for robots that

At the annual meeting of the National Space Grant Directors' Council this past week, Tim and Susan had the privilege of attending a wonderful awards banquet to honor this year's

Dr. Chandra Holifield-Collins (on right), UA/NASA Space Grant Associate Director and Soil Scientist at the USDA, shared with Arizona Science Friday information about USDA and the Southwest Watershed Research Center’s research into the climatic and management effects on the sustainability of our rangelands.

Teams from UA, ASU, ERAU, PCC West, PCC Northwest, GCC, EMCC, PC and CAC celebrate the successful launch and recovery of the 24th and 25th AZSGC ASCEND! (BalloonSat) Program on

The NASA Space Grant program paired me up with mentor Scott Saleska in the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology department. I had previously worked with graduate students in Scott’s lab who

We lost a dear friend and force for good with the passing of long-time UA/NASA Steering Committee Member and associate dean of the UA’s Graduate College Maria Teresa Velez on