Space Grant Success Stories

Collin (center) and his project team mates Nate (left) and Ryan (right), tour a local food distribution center with tour guide Haley (far right). The group is posing in front of an informational poster about the distribution center.

Check out current research on unmanned aerial vehicles to assist in food transportation, by 2017 NAU AZ/NASA Space Grant Intern, Collin Krawczyk!

Collin Krawczyk is currently interning at NASA Ames Research Center, designing an unmanned aerial vehicle to assist in transporting food to food banks.

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.

Portrait of Alexandra Huff

Congratulations to Alexandra Huff, 2015/2016 NAU NASA Space Grant Intern and Fulbright U.S. Scholar

Alex, a geology major, worked with Dr. Justin Hagerty of the USGS, located in Flagstaff, during her internship at NAU. She worked on “Placing new constraints on the unexpectedly complex formation of Meteor Crater”, and subsequently was hired by USGS to work as a researcher post graduation. She will go to Greece to conduct ground-breaking scientific research during her year abroad after receiving international grants from the prestigious Fulbright U.S. Student Program.

Portrait of Olivia Thomas

Congratulations Olivia Thomas – 2016-2017 NAU NASA Space Grant Intern!

Olivia was selected as the Distinguished Senior for the Department of Physics & Astronomy and subsequently also received the honor of Distinguished Senior for NAU’s College of Engineering, Forestry and

Etude, second from the left, standing with President Rita Cheng

Congratulations to Etude Oneel-Judy, 2015-2016 NAU NASA Space Grant Intern, winner of NAU Golden AXE Award!

Etude graduated with a bachelor’s degree in physics from NAU in May of 2018, and was one of 45 winners of the NAU Golden Axe award (dating back to 1933)

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!