Dr. Doug Swartz is a Principal Research Scientist with nearly 30 years involvement within the X-ray Astrophysics Group at the Marshall Space Flight Center. He joined USRA in 1995. He is currently the ...

Dr. Chien-Ting Chen studies supermassive black holes and their connection to galaxy evolution in the X-ray group of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Dr. Chen studies distant ...

“I hope to continue my work at NASA and contribute to aeronautics-related science and engineering for the betterment of ...

Adam Goldstein was raised in a small town in southwestern Missouri. He completed a B.S. in Physics with Honors at the University of Arkansas in 2007, writing and defending an Honors Thesis on the ...

Dr. Linda Neergaard Parker is the director of the Science and Technology Institute at Universities Space Research Association (USRA).

USRA STEMaction Center is working to strengthen the workforce of the future and ensure young people's talents, especially from low-income, rural, and minority families, are developed. We achieve this ...

Universities Space Research Association (USRA) is committed to ensuring that qualified businesses of all types receive meaningful subcontracting and vendor opportunities with us. To begin the process, ...

As a child, Megan bonded with her grandfather by accepting his invitation to work on math and astronomy workbooks with him. Growing up she had a strong love of learning, and always did well in math ...

Emily has wanted to be an astronomer ever since receiving a telescope for Christmas as a young child. The sense of awe from the first time she used it has not faded. With her love of both math and ...

When Destiny Fawley gets into a topic that interests her, she goes deep. In seventh grade while she was giving a presentation about the electromagnetic spectrum and stellar emission, her teacher ...

As a child, seeing the IMAX film Hubble with its images of billion year old distant galaxies “swallowing me up whole from that massive screen” inspired Brooke’s sense of wonder, humility, and ...