First Nations students rocket to success

First Nations students rocket to success

With support from WA Space Grant, University of Washington students win the grand prize at the 2023 First Nations Launch. Read the story from the UW’s Materials Science & Engineering department.

Where coastal meets celestial

Where coastal meets celestial

The University of Washington Magazine featured the work of Washington Sea Grant and Space Grant. Read the feature at UW Magazine.

In space and on the ground, informatics alum has high aspirations

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.