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August 2, 2024
New Scholars, Pick Your Orientation!
Attention Space Grant Scholars! Your adventure begins with a crucial first step. All scholarship recipients are required to attend an orientation session designed to propel your success in the program. What to expect: Kick-start your Space Grant experience. Your future in space exploration starts here! Choose which session to attend:Tuesday, September 24, 12-1 pm (on […]
January 1, 2024
GPA Update for Scholarship Renewal
As part of our ongoing commitment to supporting your academic journey, we are updating our GPA requirement for scholarship renewal in our terms and conditions. The new minimum GPA requirement is 2.9 for scholarship renewal. Effective starting this Winter Quarter 2024. And our policy continues that there is no minimum GPA required to initially apply […]
January 1, 2024
Opportunities for College and Graduate Students
Washington Space Grant Opportunities Graduate Fellowships Student application deadline: DEADLINE EXTENDED: Friday, March 6, 2026 at 12 pm (noon). Washington NASA Space Grant Consortium is a federally-funded workforce development program that supports students studying science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) in Washington State. Washington Space Grant opportunities are open and available to all STEM students. […]
December 2, 2023
Summer Undergraduate Research Poster Symposium
Each year our students participate in hands-on opportunities, from research in labs at colleges around the state to internships with local private industries or in NASA centers across the country. These are the presenters from our 2023 Poster Symposium: Advik Eswaran Late 20th-century Increase in Antarctic Snow Accumulation Drives Modest Mitigation of Sea Level Rise […]
July 2, 2023
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.
July 1, 2023
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.
October 1, 2022
A&A Summer Research Runs the Gamut from Space Travel to Vaccine Injections
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! Read the feature from the UW Aero & Astro department.
August 16, 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. In 2020, UW received a nearly $500,000 grant to run one of NASA’s Artemis Student Challenges in which participants turn a model lunar lava tube into a habitat […]
June 8, 2022
UW’s AISES Chapter Soars in Wisconsin Space Grant’s First Nations Launch Challenge
It was, all things considered, perhaps not the best of launch conditions under which the UW’s chapter of the American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES) decided to go for the First Nations Launch challenge. Academic year 2020–2021 opened with the University of Washington still operating in remote instruction mode during the COVID-19 pandemic. Then, […]
April 4, 2022
Sarah Tuttle, WA Space Grant Deputy Director, Featured in Scientific American
Women have been astronomers since forever, but they have needed to be made of iron. Vera C. Rubin, who got her Ph.D. in 1954, was advised in school to stay away from science. She kept going anyway by telling herself she was just different from other people. She did her graduate studies where her husband’s […]
April 1, 2022
UW Scholar and Colleagues Tackle Plastic Recycling — and Take Top Honors in Environmental Innovation Challenge
Congratulations to Carter Vu, the UW’s current Astronaut Scholarship Foundation scholar, and the Catalytic Carbon team for snagging the $15,000 Alaska Airlines Grand Prize in the 2022 Alaska Airlines Environmental Innovation Challenge. The team of aeronautics and astronomy, Master of Science in Entrepreneurship, and informatics students from the University of Washington utilizes a new recycling […]