Students Eli Rockenbeck won the “Piers J. Sellers Award for Interdisciplinary Science” from the organizers of a poster presentation event at NASA Goddard.

Students Madeleine Bartin, Evelyn Bristol, and Ally Friedman won first place for their presentation at the 10th annual Optical Sciences Winter School & Workshop at the University of Arizona.

Nathaniel Roth received a $21,325 grant from the Space Telescope Science Institute for “Composition of an Interstellar Object — Unique Insights into Protoplanetary Disk Midplane Chemistry.” He also received a $75,645 grant from the National Science Foundation for “Collaborative Research: Elucidating the Composition of our Solar System's Most Primitive Materials — Comprehensive Chemical Analysis of a Halley-Type Comet.” 

Frederick Bruhweiler received supplemental funding of $34,000 and $7,000 (new total: $251,725) from NASA for “Development of the MeDDEA Instrument for the PADRE CubeSat Mission to Observe the Sun In High-Energy X-rays” and supplemental funding of $25,000 (new total: $317,869.17) for “Continued Development of IR & Visible Spectrometer and Imaging Arrays for Ground-based & Space-borne Planetary Observations.”

Boncho Benev received a $330,562 grant from the NSF for “Transformative studies of cometary volatiles in the era of modern near-infrared spectrographs.”  

Frederick Bruhweiler received supplemental funding of $40,000 (new total: $417,924.82) from NASA for “Continued Development of IR & Visible Spectrometer and Imaging Arrays for Ground-based & Space-borne Planetary Observations.” 

Philip Johnson received a $33,816 grant from NASA for “Improving Photochemical Models for Cold and Hot Planetary Atmospheres using New Ab Initio Reaction Rate Coefficients” and supplemental funding of $86,057 (new total: 244,894.17) from NASA for “Revealing Primitive Material Preserved in Solar System Small Bodies.”  

Will Barnes received from NASA a $14,576 grant for “Modeling Energy Release and Beam Heating in NuSTAR Hard X-Ray Coronal Transients”; a $21,864 grant for “Enhancing Consistency and Discoverability across the Sunpy Ecosystem”; $18,020 for “The Euv Snapshot Imaging Spectrograph (Esis) II”; and $30,000 for “The CHIANTI Atomic Database — Essential Infrastructure for Heliophysics.”

Nathaniel Roth received supplemental funding of $14,514 from the Space Telescope Science Institute for project “An Empirical Calibration of the NIRSpec IFU Point Spread Function to Enable High Contrast”; $18,854 grant from the National Radio Astronomy Observatory for "Subsurface Thermal Photometry of NEAs: Characterizing the Regolith”; a $76,576 grant from NASA for "Comet Chemistry Beyond the H2O Sublimation Zone: Interferometric Imaging and Spectroscopy of Distant Comets”; and a $14,043 grant from the Space Telescope Science Institute for “Quantitative Study on the Search for Sulfur-bearing Molecular Ice Signatures.”

Will Barnes received supplemental funding of $87,461 (new total: $147,461) from NASA for the project “How Are Active Region Properties and Heating Connected?”

Nathan Harshman received supplemental funding of $50,000 from the NASA for the project “District of Columbia Space Grant Consortium Budget Proposal for National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program: Opportunities in NASA STEM FY 2020-2024.” Ealier this year he received supplemental funding of $860,000 from NASA" for the project.

Philip Johnson received supplemental funding of $58,288.28 (new total: $405,044) from NASA for “Interpreting Cassini CIRS Data with a Photochemical Model using Improved ab initio Reaction Rate Coefficients.” He also received supplemental funding of $46,340.17 (new total: $158,837.17) from NASA for “Revealing Primitive Material Preserved in Solar System Small Bodies.”

Vladimir Airapetian received supplemental funding of $35,642 from the Space Telescope Science Institute for the project "An X-ray through Radio Exo-Space Weather Campaign to Study the Infant Sun DS Tuc.”

Gregory Harry received a $139,844 grant from NSF for "Collaborative Research: Development and Characterization of AlGaAs Coatings for Gravitational-wave Detectors.”

Philip Johnson received supplemental funding of $88,416 (new total: $165,594.75) from NASA for "Spectroscopic Investigations of Processed Planetary and Astrophysical Ices with the Sublimation Laboratory Ice Millimeter/submillimeter Experiment.” He also received supplemental funding of $119,759.60 (new total: $1,158,864.60) from NASA for the project "Remote Sensing of Planetary Atmospheres in the Solar System and Beyond."