“I hope to continue my work at NASA and contribute to aeronautics-related science and engineering for the betterment of humanity's experience in this universe. This award helps me achieve this goal.” ...

Adam Goldstein was raised in a small town in southwestern Missouri. He completed a B.S. in Physics with Honors at the University of Arkansas in 2007, writing and defending an Honors Thesis on the ...

Dr. Linda Neergaard Parker is the director of the Science and Technology Institute at Universities Space Research Association (USRA).

USRA STEMaction Center is working to strengthen the workforce of the future and ensure young people's talents, especially from low-income, rural, and minority families, are developed. We achieve this ...

Kevin became interested in astronomy at a young age when his grandparents gave him a book about the universe as he was learning to read. He stepped away from his interest in middle school but then ...

Universities Space Research Association (USRA) is committed to ensuring that qualified businesses of all types receive meaningful subcontracting and vendor opportunities with us. To begin the process, ...

Growing up in Bangalore in India, seeing the stars wasn’t Aniket’s inspiration (since Bangalore’s skies are heavily light-polluted), but his own curiosity about what lies beyond the confines of planet ...

Katherine (Katie) Melbourne has had quite a number of adventures along the way in her education in astronomy and launching a career in civil space engineering. Most of which she created for herself.

Reading Scott Parazynski’s The Sky Below inspired Sarah that space could be her next great adventure. Sarah grew up in a town where it’s likely there are more cows than people, and young women were ...

Kristine dreams big, aspiring to be a Renaissance woman motivated by curiosity and the desire to become the best version of herself. After a freshman seminar on space physiology, she combined her ...

Sabrina’s first exposure to the various topics within engineering and its many applications was through her participation in FIRST Robotics in middle school and high school. This fit with her creative ...

Mahlet Shiferaw grew up reading “lots and lots of fiction”. When her mother encouraged her to read nonfiction, she found that books about space time, the big bang, and inflation seemed to be the same ...