On Campus: Recognition

Amanda Kate Gurnon, MA A ’09, has been named a NASA Delaware Space Grant Fellow. As part of the fellowship, she will study materials that show promise to improve micrometeoroid orbital debris resistance in the next generation space suits. Read the article

Gurnon is currently a doctoral student in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Delaware. One of her advisors, professor Norman J. Wagner, Ph.D. (PA G ’84), says that “Kate must consider not only impact loads and deformation fields, but also how STF composition and microstructure will perform in space.”

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The Charleston Regional Business Journal is reporting that The Citadel has received a five-year grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to support civil and environmental engineering.

According to the article, the funds will be used to “provide undergraduate scholarships to outstanding, but socioeconomically disadvantaged, minority and female students in South Carolina.

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The University at Buffalo (NY) has announced that Claire Lochner, NY N 2011, has been chosen for a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.

Lochner is a recent electrical engineering and mathematics graduate at UB, and will be attending the University of California, Berkeley, for her graduate studies. Click here for more information

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