UAB Physics and Engineering Students Receive Space Grant Awards

Five graduate and undergraduate students from the UAB schools of Engineering and Natural Sciences and Mathematics are among those to receive fellowships and grants from the Alabama Space Grant Consortium at its 2008 awards luncheon on Friday, Nov. 14, at Huntsville’s Marshall Space Flight Center.

November 14, 2008

• 2008 Space Grant honorees named

• 5 UAB students honored

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Five graduate and undergraduate students from the UAB schools of Engineering and Natural Sciences and Mathematics are among those to receive fellowships and grants from the Alabama Space Grant Consortium at its 2008 awards luncheon on Friday, Nov. 14, at Huntsville's Marshall Space Flight Center.

At the graduate level, Keith Green in the UAB materials engineering Ph.D. program and Douglas White in the physics Ph.D. program have both received $24,000 NASA Space Grant Fellowships for this year. Green's current research is Polymer Materials/High Temperature Thermoset and Carbon Nanofiber Nanocomposites and the Development of Multiscale Composite Structures. White's research is Laboratory Studies of Carbon Dioxide Ices in Support of Spitzer Space Telescope Observations.

At the undergraduate level, UAB senior physics majors Alexander Vaughn, Clayton Kelleher and Frank Perkins have all received NASA Space Grant Scholarships. The scholarships are valued at $1,000 each.

A total of 50 students from Alabama's seven Space Grant Consortium universities were awarded fellowships or scholarships this year. Award winners are all planning careers in space-related fields or science and math education.