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2019:
Abhishektha Boppana (aero PhD student), received the Martyn Shorten Award for Innovation at
the Conference for Footwear Biomechanics. This award is given to the best
presentation on basic research, and notably is not specifically a student
award. (advisor, Prof. Anderson)
2019:
Mike Lotto (aero PhD candidate), received 3rd
place in the student poster competition held at the 49th International Conference on
Environmental Systems (ICES) in Boston, MA, for his
work titled “CO2 Capture with Two Ionic Liquids and Implications for Mars ISRU”
(advisor, Prof. Klaus)
2019:
Mike Lotto (aero PhD candidate), received the
AIAA Neil A. Armstrong Graduate Award (advisor,
Prof. Klaus)
2019:
Mike Lotto (aero PhD candidate), CU Geologic
Sciences Hartmut Spetzler
Graduate Student Research Award to participate in a project titled “Understanding
Mars’ Astrobiological Potential with a Hyperspectral
Imager on a UAS” (with Prof. Hynek, Geology)
2019: Katie Bretl (aero PhD student), received a Zonta
Amelia Earhart fellowship (advisor, Prof. Clark)
2019:
Mike Lotto (aero PhD candidate), received the
Department’s John A. Vise Graduate Student Excellence Award (advisor, Prof. Klaus)
2019: Young-Young Shen (Aero PhD student), received the AIAA Guidance,
Navigation, and Control Graduate Award (advisor,
Prof. Anderson)
2019: Mitch Woolever (aero PhD student) received a NASA Space Technology Research
Fellowship (NSTRF) (advisor, Prof. Nabity)
2019: Jordan
Dixon (aero PhD student) received first place in the student poster
competition held at the NASA Human Research Program Investigator's Workshop in
Galveston, Texas for his poster titled ‘Validation of a New Ground-Based Analog
for Post-Spaceflight Astronaut Neurovestibular
Impairment: The Wheelchair Head Immobilization Paradigm’ (advisor, Prof. Clark)
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2018: Kimia Seyedmadani: (aero PhD student), received a NASA Johnson Space
Center Graduate Intern Outstanding Achievement Award
2018: Kimia Seyedmadani: (aero PhD student), received a NASA Johnson Space
Center Innovation Challenge SF Grant Award
2018: Luis Zea
(aero PhD 2015) received the American Society for Gravitational and Space
Research (ASGSR) Thora Halstead Young Investigator’s Award (advisor, Prof.
Klaus)
2018: Mike Van Akin (aero PhD student) received a NASA Space Technology Research
Fellowship (NSTRF) (advisor, Prof. Anderson)
2018: Katya Arquilla
(aero PhD student) received a scholarship
for women in science, technology, engineering or mathematics (STEM) awarded
from the Women Forward in Technology Scholarship Program (advisor, Prof. Anderson)
2018: Tobias Niederwieser (aero PhD candidate), received the AIAA Orville
and Wilbur Wright Graduate Award (advisor, Prof. Klaus)
2018: Emily Matula (aero PhD candidate), received the AIAA Neil Armstrong Graduate Award
(advisor, Prof. Nabity)
2018: Emily Matula (aero PhD candidate), received the
Aerospace Department’s John A. Vise Graduate Student Excellence Award (advisor, Prof. Nabity)
2018: MC Dorbecker (aero PhD student) received a NASA Space Technology Research Fellowship (NSTRF) (advisor, Prof. Nabity)
2018: Abhishektha Boppana (aero PhD student and Smead
Fellow), received an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) award (advisor,
Prof. Anderson)
2018:
Jordan Holquist (aero PhD candidate),
received a Fulbright grant to study at the Technical University of Munich (TUM)
from September 2018 to July 2019 (advisor, Prof. Klaus)
2018: Jordan Dixon (aero PhD student) received a PhD Fellowship from The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory in Cambridge, MA to support his doctoral studies (advisor, Prof. Clark)
2018: Katya Arquilla (aero PhD student) received a PhD fellowship from The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Cambridge, MA to support her doctoral studies (advisor, Prof. Anderson)
2018: Jordan Dixon (aero PhD student) received first place in the student poster competition held at the NASA Human Research Program Investigator's Workshop in Galveston, Texas for his poster titled ‘Preliminary Validation of the Wheelchair Head Immobilization Paradigm (WHIP) as an Analog for Post-Flight Sensorimotor Impairment’ (advisor, Prof. Clark)
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2017: Abhishektha Boppana (aero PhD student) was
selected as a Smead Scholar (advisor, Prof. Anderson)
2017: Roger Huerta (aero MS student) received
the Balsells Fellowship in May of 2017. The program’s
main goal is to prepare the most talented young engineers and scientists from
Catalonia in their pursuit of post-graduate degrees and post-doctoral studies
in engineering or computer sciences in the US. (advisor, Prof. Anderson)
2017: Kathrine (Katie) Bretl (aero PhD student) received a 2017 NASA
Space Technology Research Fellowship (NSTRF) award for her proposal titled ‘A
Conceptual Design and Concept of Operations for Intermittent, Short-Radius
Centrifugation for Artificial Gravity’ (advisor, Prof. Clark)
2017: Melinda
Zavala (aero MS
student) was selected to be a Hispanic Scholarship Foundation (HSF) Scholar and
awarded a scholarship from the foundation
2017: Katya Arquilla
(aero PhD student, advisor, Prof. Anderson) and Christine Escobar (aero PhD student, advisor, Prof. Nabity) were
two of the first 16 recipients of
scholarships for women in science, technology, engineering or mathematics
(STEM) awarded from the Women Forward in Technology Scholarship Program
2017: Abhishek
Kumar (aero MS
student) and Katya Arquilla (aero MS/PhD student) were
selected to participate in the Space Station Design Workshop, an international,
interdisciplinary week-long event held each summer in Stuttgart, Germany
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2016: Tobias Niederwieser (aero PhD student) received a PhD Fellowship
from the German Academic Scholarship Foundation
(Studienstiftung des deutschen
Volkes) for his proposal titled ‘Feasibility of an
algal photobioreactor for combined bioregenerative functionality of air revitalization, waste
water treatment and food production in a space habitat.’ (advisor,
Prof. Klaus)
2016: Jordan
Holquist (aero PhD student),
received first place in the student poster competition held at the International
Conference on Environmental Systems (ICES) in Vienna, Austria, for his poster
titled “Ionic Liquids Selection and Initial Test Results
for Electrochemical Carbon Dioxide Reduction” (advisor, Prof. Klaus). This
was his third year of placing in this competition!
2016: Ben
Lewis
and Krishan Patel (aero MS students)
were selected to participate in the Space Station Design Workshop, an
international, interdisciplinary week-long event held each summer in Stuttgart,
Germany
2016: Emily
Matula (aero PhD student), received an American Association of University Women's
(AAUW) Brown/Ricketts/Udick Graduate Scholarship for
women pursuing a graduate degree at the University of Colorado, (advisor, Prof.
Nabity)
2016: Daniel Case (aero PhD student) received a 2016 NASA Space
Technology Research Fellowship (NSTRF) award for his proposal titled ‘Passive
Radiation Shielding: Integrating Multilayer and Multipurpose Materials into
Space Habitat Design’ (advisor, Prof. Nabity)
2016: Michael Lotto (aero PhD student) received a 2016 NASA Space Technology Research
Fellowship (NSTRF) award for his proposal titled ‘Assessing the Feasibility of
using Co-electrolysis with Task-Specific Ionic Liquids to Produce Methane and
Oxygen for Martian In-Situ Resource Utilization’ (advisor, Prof. Klaus)
2016:
Vanessa Aponte (aero PhD 2006), Lockheed Martin, received the CU Boulder
Recent Alumni Award (advisor, Prof.
Klaus)
2016: Tobias Niederwieser (aero PhD student) was selected to participate
in the Space Studies Program (SSP) of the International Space University (ISU).
The 8 week program will be conducted in Haifa, Israel. He received a combined
full scholarship to attend the ISU summer program from the European Space
Agency (ESA), Austrian Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology, the
Association of Austrian Space Industries (AUSTROSPACE), the Austrian Research
Promotion Agency (FFG) as well as the Julius Raab
Foundation, (advisor, Prof. Klaus)
2016: Daniel Case (aero PhD student) was selected to participate
as a student for the 2016 NASA Space Radiation Summer School to be held at
Brookhaven National Laboratory. The
course is designed for graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and faculty with
an interest in radiation biology
(advisor, Prof. Nabity)
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2015: Kyle
Borg
(aero MS student) was selected to participate in the Space Station Design
Workshop, an international, interdisciplinary week-long event held each summer
in Stuttgart, Germany
2015: Evan Thomas (aero PhD 2009), Assistant
Professor at Portland State University, received the CU-Boulder Alumni
Association Kalpana Chawla Outstanding Recent
Graduate Award (advisor, Prof. Klaus)
2015: Jordan Holquist (aero PhD student) student received 2nd
place presented a poster titled “Opportunities and Challenges for Direct Oxygen
Generation using Electrochemical Carbon Dioxide Reduction Catalyzed by Room
Temperature Ionic Liquids,” at the 45th International Conference on
Environmental Systems in Bellevue, WA (advisor, Prof. Klaus)
2015: Joseph S. Butterfield (aero MS student)
was selected to participate as a student for the 2015 NASA Space Radiation
Summer School to be held at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, NY from
June 3-26. The course is designed for
graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and faculty with an interest in
radiation biology
2015: A team of
CU AES grad students (Jonathan Anthony,
Matthew Milanese, Tobias Niederwieser, William Tandy, Kaitlin McIntosh, Lauren
McManus, Charles "Zeke" Bretchel, Sean
Napier, advised by Professor Klaus, were selected to participate in the
2015 NIA/NASA RASC-AL Competition held in Cocoa Beach, Fla., in June for their
proposal titled ‘Delphi: A Lunar Architecture to Enable Exploration, Research,
and Commercial Development of Space beyond LEO’ received ‘Best in Theme’ award for lunar architecture
2015: Evan Thomas (aero PhD 2009), Assistant
Professor at Portland State University, received the CU College of Engineering
and Applied Science Recent Alumni Award
(advisor, Prof. Klaus)
2015: Kirstyn Johnson (aero BS/MS student)
received a CU College of Engineering and Applied Science, Distinguished Senior
Award, graduating with a 4.0 cumulative GPA – the first AES student to do so
since 1982!
2015: Emily
Matula
(aero PhD student) received a NASA Space Technology Research Fellowship (NSTRF) (advisor, Prof. Nabity)
2015: Bill Tandy and Henna Jethani (aero MS students) were selected to participate in
the 2015 Caltech Space Challenge held in Pasadena, CA from March 22-27. This
theme for this year was to design a mission to land humans on an asteroid
brought back to lunar orbit, extract the asteroid's resources and demonstrate
their use.
2015: Chris Nie (aero BS/MS student) participated
in the Space Horizons 2015 annual workshop held at Brown University in
Providence, Rhode Island, February 18-19. The workshop was focused this year on
assessing how proven facilities in Antarctica can be used as operational
analogs for sustainably supporting human missions to the moon or Mars.
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2014:
Luis Zea (aero PhD candidate) received the
"Student Investigator Spaceflight Award" from the Center for
Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS) during the American Society of
Gravitational and Space Research (ASGSR) Conference in Pasadena, CA. (advisor, Prof. Klaus)
2014:
In July the second annual Startup Weekend Space was held in San Jose, California,
fielding ten teams dedicated to “the development of space technologies and
broader conceptual understanding of space, or “outer-worldly ideation around NewSpace.” The
winning team was BioCube, led by Christine Fanchiang (aero PhD candidate), which was conceptualized
as a line of cube satellites intended to help biologists study organic
materials in space. (advisor,
Prof. Klaus)
2014: A team of CU AES grad
students (Collin Bezrouk, Geimi
Delarge, Christine Fanchiang, Roger Huang, Karla
Rosario, Megan Scheele, and Eric Threet, advised
by Professor Klaus) were selected as finalists in the Mars Society’s
‘Inspiration Mars Student Design Contest’ for their proposal titled ‘Mars
Approach Vehicle and Earth Return for Interplanetary Crew (MAVERIC): An
Innovative, Robust, and Simple Architecture for a Mars Flyby Mission. Ten
finalist teams from Japan, India, Russia, the Netherlands, Poland, Germany and
the United States were selected from 38 entries and are invited to present
their mission concepts at the 17th Annual International Mars Society Convention
to be held this August in League City, Texas near the NASA Johnson Space
Center. Christine Fanchiang, Roger Huang and Eric Threet
prepared the final presentation, with Roger and Eric travelling to Houston to
present the results. MAVERIC received 2nd place overall!
2014:
Christopher Nie (aero BS/MS) and Tobias Niederwieser (MS) were selected
as part of Aviation Week/Raytheon’s Tomorrow’s
Engineering Leaders-The Twenty20s
2014:
Jordan Holquist (aero PhD student) received
a NASA
Space Technology Research Fellowship (NSTRF)
(advisor, Prof. Klaus)
2014:
Kier Fortier (aero BS/MS) was
selected to participate in the NASA Student Ambassador Program
2014:
Elise Kowalski (aero MS) received a Jeppesen Scholarship for 2014-2015 to study at the Technische Universität Darmstadt
in Germany, where she will take courses in mechanical engineering and human
factors, followed by an internship next summer at Jeppesen
in Frankfurt.
2014:
Christine Fanchiang (aero PhD candidate) was
one of two students sponsored by the Boulder, Colorado chapter of P.E.O.
(Philanthropic Educational Organization) to receive a P.E.O. Scholar Award, a
$15,000 merit-based scholarship for women from the US and Canada who are
pursuing a doctoral level degree at an accredited college or university. P.E.O. is one of the pioneer societies
promoting educational opportunities for women, founded in 1869. (advisor, Prof. Klaus)
2014: Two CU teams of aerospace
grad students advised by Professor Klaus were selected to participate in the
2014 NIA/NASA RASC-AL Competition held in Cocoa Beach, Fla., in June:
"Enabling the space frontier by implementation of a low mass cis-lunar
outpost" or LITEHABS (Asa Darnell, Tobias Niederwieser, Elliot Russell,
Chris Christensen, Christine Fanchiang, Jonathan Anthony, Chris Nie, and
Matthew Milanese) and "ECLIPSE: The Explorartory
Cis-Lunar Laboratory for Interplanetary Sample Extraction" (Jake Adams,
Adam Brown, Adam Carahalios, Zachary Cuseo, Elyssa Kaszynski, Josh Smith, Ryder Whitmire, Eric Provo, Elise Kowalski and Chris Walsh).
The LITEHABS team tied for 1st place in the graduate division!
2014:
Luis Zea (aero PhD candidate) received a
Fellowship from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) to conduct research
at the German Aerospace Agency (DLR) in Cologne, Germany from February through
August, 2014. His research involves
characterizing the effects of spaceflight on microbial drug resistance (advisor, Prof. Klaus)
2014:
Mike Lotto (aero BS/MS) was selected by the
National Space Club as the 2014 recipient of the Dr. Robert H. Goddard Memorial
Scholarship (advisor, Prof. Klaus)
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2013: Mike
Lotto (aero BS/MS) received the Paul M. & Burgette
A. Hart Scholarship (advisor, Prof.
Klaus)
2013:
Geoffrey King (aero MS) received a postgraduate
scholarship from the National Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC)
of Canada for the 2013/14 academic year
2013:
Tobias Niederwieser (aero MS) was selected to receive
sponsorship from AUSTROSPACE (Association of Austrian Space Industries) for his
studies abroad (at CU) contributing to space technologies and applications in
the area of space science (advisor, Prof.
Klaus)
2013:
Jake Gamsky (aero MS), Kirstyn Johnson (aero BS/MS) and Mike Lotto (BS/MS) were selected as part of Aviation
Week/Raytheon’s Tomorrow’s Engineering
Leaders-The Twenty20s
2013:
Christine Fanchiang, aerospace PhD student,
received a NASA Harriett G. Jenkins Graduate Fellowship (advisor, Prof. Klaus)
2013:
Christopher Nie (aero BS/MS) was selected
for the NASA Student Ambassador Program
2013:
Christopher Nie (aero BS/MS) received a UMC
Schafer Leadership Scholarship
2013:
Jordan Holquist (aero MS) received a
third place award in the AIAA 2013 ICES student poster competition for his
poster titled Characterization of a
Potassium Superoxide-based Air Revitalization System for Crewed Spacecraft (advisor, Prof. Klaus)
2013:
Christine Fanchiang, aerospace PhD student,
received an Achievement Reward for College Scientists (ARCS) Scholarship for
the 2013/14 academic year (advisor, Prof.
Klaus)
2013:
A team of CU aero grad students (Heather
Hava, Jordan Holquist, Christine Fanchiang and Griffin Hale) along with Matthew
Carton (CU mech eng)
and Keira Havens (CSU microbio) advised by Professor Nikolaus Correll received
first place for their project titled Bioregenerative
Life Support Systems (BLSS) for Long Duration Human Space Missions in the
2013 NASA/NIA Revolutionary Aerospace Systems Concepts-Academic Linkage
(RASC-AL) graduate design competition held in Cocoa Beach, FL. They were also
recognized with the ‘Best Advanced Concepts’ award.
2013:
Luis Zea, aerospace PhD candidate,
received the AIAA’s Orville and Wilbur Wright Graduate Award for the 2013–2014
academic year
(advisor, Prof. Klaus)
2013:
Stefanie Gonzalez and Luis Zea, both aerospace PhD students,
were selected to participate in the MIT/Skoltech
Space Exploration Strategy program, a joint initiative between MIT Department
of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Skolkovo
Institute of Science and Technology. Areas of research include exploration
ideology and rationale, mission planning,
advanced in-space propulsion systems, long-duration crew health and life support
systems, and surface exploration systems. The first segment of this project
includes students collaborating and developing mission objectives. Luis Zea was also invited as part of a
select group to travel to Moscow, Russia for a week-long workshop. The final
report will be disseminated at the International Astronautical
Congress in Beijing, China.
2013:
Stefanie Gonzalez, aerospace PhD
student, received an NSF Fellowship to support her research. (advisor, Prof. Ferguson)
2013:
Stefanie Gonzalez (aero PhD student)
and Ashley Williams (aero MS
student) were selected to participate with students from around the world as
part of the Caltech Space Challenge, which took place from March 25-29 in
Pasadena, CA. The teams were tasked with designing a human mission to a Martian
moon in 5 days. World-renowned scientists were invited to educate the students
on topics such as; planetary science, orbital mechanics, and space physiology.
2013: Mike Lotto
(aero BS/MS) received a national Goldwater Scholarship, recognizing sophomores
and juniors who have achieved high academic merit and demonstrated leadership
potential. (advisor,
Prof. Klaus)
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2012:
Kirstyn Johnson (aero BS/MS) received the
Women in Aerospace (WIA) Foundation Scholarship for the 2012/13 academic year
2012:
Mike Lotto (aero BS/MS) received the
Outstanding NASA Co-op Award
2012:
Mike Lotto (aero BS/MS) received the
Lanis and Carmen Pinchuk
Student Leader Scholarship
2012:
Christine Fanchiang, aerospace PhD student,
received an Achievement Reward for College Scientists (ARCS) Scholarship for
the 2012/13 academic year
2012:
Chris Massina, aerospace PhD student, received a
NASA
Space Technology Research Fellowship (NSTRF)
2012: A group of CU undergraduate students (Mike Lotto, Andrew Broucek, Kirstyn
Johnson, Chris Nie and Kyle Shannon
from Aerospace, and Jared Yenzer from ECE) were selected to participate in NASA’s
2012 Reduced-Gravity Education Flight Program to conduct their experiment
titled Validating the Gravity Dependence
of the Churchill-Chu Correlation for Free Convective Heat Transfer from a
Finite, Flat Plate: A Study of the
Effects of Gravity on Free Convective Heat Transfer during parabolic
flights. Prof. Klaus was the faculty
advisor for the project.
2012: Two groups of
Bioastronautics students and a third team from CU including international
collaborators were selected as finalists in the 2012 NASA/NIA Revolutionary
Aerospace Systems Concepts-Academic Linkage (RASC-AL) design competition and
presented their projects in Cocoa Beach, FL, with travel funding provided by
NASA. The teams and students are shown below. Joe Tanner, Dan Scheeres and Dave
Klaus were the advisors, respectively.
•Extraterrestrial Outpost (ExO): Design and Implementation of a Long-Term Sustainable
Lunar Habitat (1st Place)
Stuart
Tozer, Christine Fanchiang, Nicholas Zinner, Zachary Grunder, Joshua Imobersteg, Felix
Bidner and Lee Jasper
•Human Exploration of Near Earth Asteroids --
A Revolutionary Mission Architecture (2nd Place)
CU: Simon Tardivel
and Yu Takahashi
Delft
University of Technology: Jon Herman
(incoming CU Phd student), Jon Reijneveld,
Katie Dunlop
University of Stuttgart: Aline Zimmer
•Human Intervention for a Low-Earth-Orbit
Interference-Free Environment (HI-LIFE)
Adam Leppek, Lance Markovchick, Lydia McDowell and Thomas Snow
2012:
Robert Ocampo, aerospace PhD student, received
the CU Aerospace Engineering Sciences Graduate Student Service Award
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2011: Mike
Lotto (aero BS) was selected as a NASA Student Ambassador
2011:
Christine Fanchiang, Society of Women Engineers
(SWE) Rocky Mountain Section Pioneer Scholarship
2011:
Sarah Over, aerospace MS student, received an American Association of
University Women (AAUW) Selected Professions Fellowship
2011:
Heather Hava, aerospace MS student, received an American Association of
University Women (AAUW) Selected Professions Fellowship
2011:
Luis Zea, aerospace PhD student, received
the aerospace engineering sciences Graduate Student Service Award.
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2010: Mike
Lotto (aero BS) Outstanding NASA Intern Award
2010:
Jonathan Metts, aerospace PhD
student, received the Aerospace Department’s John A. Vise Graduate Student
Excellence Award
2010:
Jonathan Metts, aerospace PhD
student, received a first place award in the student poster competition held
during the 40th Annual International Conference on Environmental Systems (ICES),
an AIAA forum held from July 11-15, 2010 in Barcelona, Spain. His poster was titled ‘Electrochromic
Radiator Impact on Apollo Sublimator Water
Consumption.’ This was the third year in a row that he placed in the ICES
poster competition!
2010:
Jennifer Mindock, aerospace PhD
student, received a Zonta International Amelia
Earhart Fellowship for the 2010-2011 academic year.
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2009:
Ryan Kobrick, aerospace PhD student,
received the Aerospace Department’s John A. Vise Graduate Student Excellence
Award
2009:
Jonathan Metts, aerospace PhD
student, received a second place award in the student poster competition held
during the 39th Annual International Conference on Environmental Systems
(ICES), an AIAA co-sponsored event, in Savannah, GA from 12-16 July 2009. His poster was titled ‘Electrochromic
Radiators for Space Suits: Preliminary Testing Results.’
2009:
Jennifer Mindock, aerospace PhD
student, was awarded a NASA Graduate Student Research Program fellowship for
her proposal titled, "Defining a Failure Mode-based, Multivariate Risk
Index to Assess Human Spacecraft Safety and Reliability."
2009:
Jennifer Mindock, aerospace PhD
student, received an Achievement Reward for College Scientists (ARCS)
Scholarship
2009:
Ryan Kobrick, aerospace PhD student,
received an Achievement Reward for College Scientists (ARCS) Scholarship.
2009:
Jonathan Metts, aerospace PhD
student, received an Achievement Reward for College Scientists (ARCS)
Scholarship.
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2008:
Kennda Lynch, MS aerospace 2008,
received a NASA Harriet Jenkins Fellowship.
2008:
Jonathan Metts, aerospace PhD student,
received 4th place recognition in a student poster competition held at the 38th
International Conference on Environmental Systems (ICES) in San Francisco in
July for his poster titled ‘Application of Electrochromic Materials for Active
Space Suit Thermal Control’.
2008:
Jonathan Metts, aerospace Ph.D.
student, received a Beverly Sears Graduate Student Grant.
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2007:
Andrea Hanson, aerospace Ph.D.
student, received a Beverly Sears Graduate Student Grant.
2007:
Ryan Kobrick, aerospace PhD student,
received a NASA
Grad
2007:
2007:
Kevin Higdon, aerospace PhD student,
received a NASA
Grad
2007:
AES PhD students Jonathan Metts and Bruce Davis, received a Runner Up award
at the PISCES Lunar Outpost National Student Design Competition held in Hilo,
HI (advised by Prof Klaus)
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2006:
Ryan Kobrick, aerospace PhD student,
received the AIAA John Leland Atwood Graduate Award. His research involves
development of Advanced Space Suit Technologies with an emphasis on lunar dust
mitigation strategies.
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2005:
James Russell, aerospace PhD
candidate, received the AIAA John Leland Atwood Graduate Award.
2005:
Steve Chappell, aerospace PhD candidate,
received an AIAA Grad
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2004:
Michael Benoit, aerospace PhD
student, received the Aerospace Department’s John A. Vise Graduate Student
Excellence Award
2004: Vanessa Aponte,
aerospace Ph.D. student, received a NASA Graduate Student Research Program
(GSRP) Fellowship for her thesis research titled 'Development of a Novel
BioMEMS Sensor for Minimally Invasive Astronaut Immune System Monitoring'.
Vanessa also works part of the year as a co-op in the Biological Systems Office
at the
2004: Jackson Lee,
aerospace MS student, was awarded an NSF EAPSI fellowship to Japan this summer.
He will be working at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and
Technology in
2004: Jackson Lee,
aerospace MS student, recently received a Beverly Sears Graduate Student Grant
of $500 to purchase lab equipment needed for his thesis work.
2004: Heather Howard, a
first year MS student, received a NASA Graduate Student Research Program (GSRP)
Fellowship from the Johnson Space Center for her research titled 'Systematic
Characterization of Antibiotic Effectiveness Under Altered Gravitational
Environments (simulated 0g to centrifuged 10g)’.
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2003: Juniper Jairala, aerospace Ph.D. student, received a Graduate
Assistantship in Biosciences from the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Initiative for Minority Student Development.
2003: Mike Benoit,
aerospace Ph.D. student, received an Honorable Mention Award in the student
competition for his poster titled 'Computational Modeling of Extracellular Mass
Transport' presented at the 19th Annual Meeting of the American Society for
Gravitational and Space Biology (ASGSB) held in November in Huntsville, AL.
2003: Mike Benoit,
aerospace Ph.D. student was elected President of the ASGSB Student Chapter.
2003: Mike Benoit,
aerospace PhD student, was awarded the AIAA Foundation Grad
2003: Tom Hatfield,
aerospace Ph.D. candidate, was awarded the AIAA Foundation Grad
2003: Jim Russell,
aerospace Ph.D. student and BioServe RA, received a 'Grant-in-Aid of Research'
award from the Scientific Research Society, Sigma Xi. The award will be used to
help support his thesis work involving development of a non-invasive biosensor
for use in space and ground-based cell culture research. This is a highly
competitive process with only approximately 20% of applicants receiving
funding.
2003: Juniper Jairala was awarded a fellowship from the National
Consortium for Grad
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2002: Melissa Sampson,
aerospace Ph.D. student and BioServe RA, was selected as an Amelia Earhart
Fellow by Zonta International for the second year in
a row. The awards, established in 1938, are granted annually to women pursuing
graduate degrees related to aerospace sciences or engineering and provide
$6,000 to be used for tuition, books and fees, or living expences.
Melissa's research focuses on biochemical responses of plants to space flight,
including applications involving engineering payload design.
2002: Tom Hatfield,
aerospace Ph.D. student, was awarded a NASA Grad
2002: Jim Russell,
aerospace Ph.D. student, was awarded the AIAA Foundation Grad
2002: Travis Liggett, who
is working on a research project under the McNair Scholars Program, was awarded
a Beverly Sears Grad
2002: Mike Benoit,
aerospace Ph.D student, was awarded a NASA Grad
2002: Ken Stroud received
a NASA Grad
2002: Ken Stroud was
selected as this year's recipient of the AIAA Willy Z. Sadeh
Award in Space Sciences and Space Engineering. The Sadeh
Award provides a $5,000 grant for graduate research, plus a travel stipend to
attend the AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting in Reno, Nevada in January 2003, and
the International Astronautical Federation (IAF)
Congress in October 2003 to be held in Bremen, Germany.
2002: Kirsten G. Carpenter,
Aerospace M.S. student, awarded the NASA Special Achievement Award because
"Kirsten Carpenter has done an outstanding job supporting the Cargo
Integration and Operations Branch (DO5) by demonstrating exceptional initiative
and integration skills ...." Kirsten joined
2002: AES Seniors Bob Gjestvang,
Aaron Frey, Ryan Ries, Colleen Higgans,
Kate Atkinson, Sara Lewandowski, Shawn Bockstahler
and PhD student Jim Clawson, advised
by Professor Klaus, received 1st place in the NASA MarsPort Student Design
Competition held at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.