Space Grant Success Stories

iShowcase Demo of VR glasses

UA/NASA Space Grant Graduate Fellow, Charles Parrish, at iShowcase

UA/NASA Space Grant Graduate Fellow, Charles Parrish, demoes a component of his Space Grant Outreach Fellowship work on accessible, immersive virtual reality (VR) experiences.

An artist's conception showing spherical carbon molecules known as buckyballs coming out from a planetary nebula — material shed by a dying star. Researchers at the University of Arizona have now created these molecules under laboratory conditions thought to mimic those in their "natural" habitat in space. (Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech)

2019-20 UA/NASA Communications Intern, Rachel Abraham, discusses complex carbon molecules in nebulae with UA Researchers

Mimicking conditions thought to exist around dying stars, researchers discovered a mechanism that could explain why planetary nebulae are teeming with complex carbon molecules.

UA/NASA Space Grant Mentor, Dr. Monica Ramirez-Andreotta, leads a project to determine whether Arizona town is exposed to harmful mining toxins

UA-led project studies if Arizona town is exposed to harmful mining toxins By Alana Minkler - The Daily Wildcat "Roy Chavez, a lifelong resident of Superior, Ariz., a small mining

ASU Phoenix CubeSat team at launch (front, left to right): Nicholas Altman, Sarah Rogers and Ryan Fagan. (Back, left to right): Devon Bautista, Craig Knoblauch, Trevor Bautista and Raymond Barakat. Trevor Bautista/ASU

ASU Space Grant students launch CubeSat to study urban heat island effect

The Arizona State University-led Phoenix CubeSat was launched into space onboard the Antares II rocket from Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia as part of a Cygnus resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS).

Arsh Nadkarni stands in front of rover model

UA SEDS students present their research at SpaceVision 2019 Conference at ASU!

UA SEDS students present their research at SpaceVision 2019 Conference at ASU!

Burçin Mutlu-Pakdil (left) Erika Hamden (right)

2019-20 UA Space Grant undergraduate intern, Rachel Abraham, highlights two astronomers named AAAS If/Then Ambassadors, for UA Communications

University of Arizona astronomers Erika Hamden and Burçin Mutlu-Pakdil have been selected as American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) If/Then Ambassadors.

An artist illustration of what centaur SW1 would look like if it became an inner solar system Jupiter-Family comet at a distance of 0.2 AU (19 million miles) from Earth. The moon is in the upper right part of the frame for scale. (Image: Heather Roper)

Space Grant mentor Daniel Stolte interviews UA researchers on cradle of comets discovered beyond Jupiter

UA researchers discuss the discovery of a cradel of comets with Daniel Stolte - an AZSG mentor, working with intern Rachel Abraham.

Steward Observatory

UA Space Grant Mentor, Dennis Zaritsky, to give Dark Matter lecture in Spanish

As a part of its annual evening lecture series, the University of Arizona’s Steward Observatory will host a free lecture on dark matter entirely in Spanish. The Steward Observatory has been hosting public astronomy lectures in English since 1922 but began offering Spanish lectures in fall 2018.

NASA/Raven Aerostar BalloonSat Launch

Congratulations to 2017-18 ERAU ASCEND Team Member, Michael Fusco, who accepted a position with NASA Raven

After graduating ERAU, Michael started his career this summer with NASA's Raven project.