Audience for Meenakshi Wadhwa's public lecture, October 26, 2023

MCSS Alumni

Bethany Ehlmann to receive honorary degree at WashU’s 163rd Commencement

Bethany L. Ehlmann, WashU alumna, Rhodes Scholar and professor of planetary science and the Allen V. C. Davis and Lenabelle Davis Leadership Chair and director of the Keck Institute for Space Studies at the California Institute of Technology, will be awarded an honorary Doctor of Science degree

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Principal Investigator Jeremy Perkins and his co-investigator, Georgia de Nolfo, recently won funding to build a new CubeSat mission, called BurstCube. (NASA/W. Hrybyk)

Faculty, Research, Alumni

WashU alum leads a recently deployed NASA mission to detect gamma-rays from cosmic explosions

NASA’s CubeSat Launch Initiative is sending a group of four small satellites, called CubeSats, to the International Space Station as ELaNa 51 (Educational Launch of Nanosatellites). These small payloads have been developed by NASA and universities and will be deployed from low Earth orbit.

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