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
1608, 2022
UW to host college students for NASA-funded lunar rover challenge
Eight teams of college students will arrive on the University of Washington campus Aug. 19 to go to the moon – or at least a simulated version of it.
0806, 2022
UW’s AISES chapter soars in Wisconsin Space Grant’s First Nations Launch challenge
The UW’s chapter of the American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES) has done impressively well in their first two years attending the First Nations Launch challenge in Wisconsin.
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.
1410, 2021
One short walk around Drumheller Fountain, one giant leap for WA Space Grant
As autumn quarter 2021 opens, Washington NASA Space Grant marks a momentous shift — its first academic year hosted by the William E. Boeing Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics in the UW’s College of Engineering.
1806, 2021
WSGC programs for incoming undergraduates at UW remove letters of reference requirement
The Washington NASA Space Grant Consortium is pleased to announce that our University of Washington scholarship programs for incoming undergraduates will no longer require letters of reference as part of the application process. This change is effective immediately for our scholarships for community college transfer applicants and for first-year student applicants.
2812, 2020
Robert Winglee (1958–2020)
We are devastated to announce that Robert Winglee, director of Washington NASA Space Grant Consortium and of the Northwest Earth and Space Sciences Pipeline, has passed away.
1311, 2019
2020-2021 Application open for UW first-year students
The Washington Space Grant Consortium is now accepting applications for the UW Scholars for First-Year Students program.