Space Grant Success Stories

Congratulations to Allison McGraw, 2016 UA Space Grant Intern, for receiving a Lloyd V. Berkner Space Policy Graduate Internship award with the Space Studies Board at The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine in Washington, D.C. for the fall 2017 season!

A day to remember for a lifetime! Sharing the total solar eclipse in the path of totality with awesome AZSGC students, colleagues, and friends was the most wonderful experience. Thank you all for your part in making an unforgettable great memory and a significant and productive day of learning, technology utilization and science! Yay team AZ!!!!! You are the BEST!!!!

Heather Emady, 2006 UA Space Grant Intern, is a recipient of Arizona Science Foundation's 2015 Bisgrove Scholars Award. She conducted industrially relevant postdoctoral work first as a Postdoctoral Researcher for

As part of Arizona Space Grant's RockOn program, Roslyn Norman participated through Pima Community College's Engineering Club and was featured in The Wonder Girl Project!

Bob Zavala, 1997 UA Space Grant Intern, is co-author of the recent publication "Constraining the Orbit of the Supermassive Black Hole Binary 0402+379", as featured by Daily Mail: 'The orbits

Emily Litvack is a science writer at the University of Arizona in Tucson. In 2013, Litvack was a science writing intern for the Arizona Daily Sun through the NAU/NASA Space

Sonia Sen inspired us all! She celebrated being an inspirational woman at her UA graduation in 2014, and in May 2017 completed a MS in Information Systems at Cornell Tech. Congratulations, Sonia--you GO girl!!!

Christina Morrison is working with professor Charles Gerba on testing new ways to clean clothes in space!

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.