Purdue’s space work is featured at NASA Science Showcase

A Purdue professor and graduate student participated in the NASA Science Showcase recently on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. The April 21 event highlighted how NASA-funded science research across disciplines strengthens America’s leadership and fuels the broader space program. Staff from many Senate and House of Representatives offices attended.

Ali Bramson, a professor of earth, atmospheric and planetary sciences in the College of Science, and PhD candidate Mariana Blanco-Rojas spoke during an educational session titled “Igniting Discovery: How NASA Funding Advances American Science” to highlight Purdue’s contributions to NASA’s Science Mission Directorate. They shared examples of how work on NASA projects happening at Purdue contributes to the country’s technological competitiveness and global leadership in the space sciences. The Mars Rover Operations Center, located in Hampton Hall on Purdue’s campus, and the university’s work in preparing the next-generation STEM workforce were among the examples cited.

The NASA Science Showcase was hosted by the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities, the Planetary Society, the Association of American Universities, the American Astronomical Society, the American Geophysical Union, the American Society for Gravitational and Space Research, and more than 20 universities and research organizations.

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