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.

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

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

Diné Instructor/Mentor Francis Burns shipped his students’ 2016 ASCEND radiation and GPS data to Marsha Bitsui at NAU. Marsha collaborates with Jani Ingram studying uranium content in reservation sheep tissue.

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.

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