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Elly Purdy, a second-year Mechanical Engineering student at the Green Bay Campus recently received a $2,000 STEM Bridge scholarship from the Wisconsin Space Grant Consortium. These renewable scholarships are awarded to outstanding undergraduate students...
Wisconsin Space Grant Consortium (WSGC) is soliciting applications through Feb. 20, for students interested in space science and engineering for: (i) a payload team, to design and build a balloon science payload; or (ii)...
Please forward this opportunity to your students… Wisconsin Space Grant Consortium Scholarships opportunities close Feb. 6, including: $2,000 awards for students pursuing any space-related studies; $4,000 for undergrads to pursue space-relevant research projects of...
Opportunities for funding of faculty equipment and projects from the Wisconsin Space Grant Consortium are now open. Last year’s Research Infrastructure Program (RIP), primarily for equipment, received just five proposals, and each was awarded...
GREEN BAY –The Wisconsin Space Grant Consortium (WSGC) has recognized two University of Wisconsin-Green Bay students for their outstanding academic work. James Vasquez has been awarded the STEM Bridge Scholarship for the 2016-17 academic...
UW-Green Bay’s R. Aileen Yingst continues to receive local and state media attention for her role in the Mars rover mission, with the latest piece coming from WisBusiness.com. Tom Still’s opinion column says the...
As the Mars Curiosity mission continues, so too does the public’s curiosity about the SUV-sized rover and the images it’s beaming back from the red planet. As we’ve told you here previously, UW-Green Bay’s...
Due to the successful and historic landing of the Mars rover Curiosity Monday, UW-Green Bay’s Aileen Yingst will be away for a while.
About 90 Martian days, in fact.
Yingst, director of the Wisconsin Space Grant Consortium, headquartered at UW-Green Bay, is the deputy principal investigator for the Curiosity mission’s Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) camera, an instrument so powerful it can return images of individual grains of sand on the planet’s surface. She watched the rover land from mission headquarters early Monday (Aug. 6), joining in a jubilant celebration with “about 400 of my best friends” at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif.
You’ve no doubt heard that the landing of the Mars rover Curiosity — so intense and complex it was dubbed the “seven minutes of terror” — was a success early Monday (Aug. 6) morning,...
The buzz is building in anticipation of the Aug. 6 landing of NASA’s most advanced planetary rover — and R. Aileen Yingst, director of the Wisconsin Space Grant Consortium, headquartered at UW-Green Bay, is...
