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 ...

The USRA Distinguished Undergraduate Awards provide financial support to the educational careers of future researchers and ...

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, ...

Bella is captivated by “the vastness of our universe and the seamless overlap of various astrophysics disciplines”. Her fascination with astronomy started with a book her third grade teacher shared ...

Joheen has been interested in space for as long as he can remember, from a childhood interest in amateur astronomy to an eventual fascination with astrophysics. In his junior year of high school, he ...

Charles was originally interested in physics, but after taking some college classes and having the opportunity to do research in astronomy, he realized he loved learning about astrophysics even more.

Katherine (Katie) Melbourne has had quite a number of adventures along the way in her education in astronomy and launching a career in civil space engineering. Most of which she created for herself.