Category: CLASP
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Brown Honored with Alumni of the Year Award
The U-M Department of Climate and Space congratulates Dr. Shannon T. Brown, who is the recipient of the 2022 Alumni of the Year Award.
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Alumna Aisha Bowe Goes to Space
Aisha Bowe will make history when she boards an upcoming Blue Origin flight that will cross the Kármán line – the internationally recognized boundary between Earth’s atmosphere and outer space. She will be the first female U-M alum and sixth Black woman to do so.
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U-M Student Wins NASA’s Visualization Competition
U-M Climate and Space graduate student Austin Brenner was among the seven winners of NASA’s Michael H. Freilich Student Visualization Competition focused on science storytelling and data visualization.
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Congratulations to our new Climate & Space PhD!
After receiving his doctoral degree, Dr. Austin Glass will continue his work on the Mercury space environment as a postdoctoral researcher at U-M Climate & Space.
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Space Physics Q&A: An Interview with Senior Engineer in Research Samantha Vaughn
Samantha Vaughn works as Senior Engineer in Research at the Space Physics Research Laboratory (SPRL) and XTRM Labs. In this Q&A, she shares some of her technical work at SPRL.
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Student Delegation Travels to U.N. Convention on Climate Change
Yifan Guan and Yingxiao Zhang, Ph.D. candidates at U-M Climate and Space, served as student delegates to COP27 in November.
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Research Scientist Secures a Patent for Mobile Charging Network
Featured in a 2022 Tech Talk, Mojtaba Akhavan-Tafti has secured a patent to develop an EV mobile charging network at U-M.
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LearningClues Revolutionizes Education in College Lectures
Tech is revolutionizing the way college students absorb lectures, after University of Michigan Prof. Perry Samson led an interdisciplinary to invent LearningClues.
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Interdisciplinary Student Team Places in Science Policy Writing Competition
A team of University of Michigan students earned second place in the Forefront and NSPN 2022 Science Policy Writing Competition.
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A Festive Fall: Students Across Disciplines Brighten Up the Department
Student life at U-M Climate & Space has been bustling this fall, as students from both the climate sciences and the space sciences side come together to celebrate community. Even the Sun is smiling!
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Kasper Named American Physical Society Fellow
Professor Justin C. Kasper, Ph.D., has been named a 2022 Fellow of the American Physical Society.
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Space Physics Q&A: An Interview with Chief Mechanical Engineer Jon Van Noord
Dr. Jon Van Noord works as Chief Mechanical Engineer in Research at the Space Physics Research Laboratory and XTRM Labs. In this Q&A, he shares some of his notable work at SPRL.
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U-M Faculty Recognition Award Presented to Jia
A physicist who teaches space physics and space weather modeling, Xianzhe Jia’s discoveries have made a profound impact on the field of planetary science.
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Research on Designing a Next-Gen Heavy Ion Composition Spectrometer Earns Student a NASA Fellowship
Tyler Eddy has been selected to receive the Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology fellowship.
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When Climate Change Hits Home
An organization led by U-M is helping small-town America plan for a warming world and the devastating floods that come with it.
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Flaring Allows More Methane into the Atmosphere Than We Thought
Research by Associate Prof. Eric Kort shows flaring releases five times more methane than previously thought. Simple fixes could make a big impact.