UW’s A&A department profiles 2022 SURP students
From vaccines to space travel — the projects for four of the UW aeronautics and astronautics students participating in our 2022 SURP program ran the gamut!
2010, 2022
0404, 2022
Sarah Tuttle, WA Space Grant deputy director, featured in Scientific American
It has been more than half a century since Vera Rubin attained her Ph.D. — we’re in a whole new millennium now. Has astronomy changed for the women in its ranks? Or have the women in its ranks changed astronomy?
0104, 2022
UW Scholar and colleagues tackle plastic recycling — and take top honors in Environmental Innovation Challenge
UW Space Grant and Astronaut Scholarship Foundation scholar Carter Vu is a member of the team who achieved the grand prize in the 2022 Alaska Airlines Environmental Innovation Challenge.
1301, 2022
In space and on the ground, informatics alum has high aspirations
Shannon Gatta’s work is out of this world. Gatta, who graduated from the iSchool in 2020 with a degree in Informatics, works as a data engineer for the private aerospace company Blue Origin, has completed the first level of private astronaut training, and has interned at NASA’s Johnson Space Center and Langley Research Center. For academic year 2019-2020, Gatta was the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation scholar at UW.
1311, 2019
Huskies stretch a paw toward space
After five years, 25,000 hours, and work by dozens of students (from high school to graduate level), HuskySat-1 is in space. On Saturday, Nov. 2, a Northrop Grumman Cygnus resupply spacecraft launched from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia carrying HuskySat-1 among other science investigations and cargo.