FALL 2013
THE A4H NEWS
Awards and Academic Achievements Flight Member Luis Zea was selected as one of only two recipients nationwide for the AIAA Orville and Wilber Wright Graduate Award, which is given annually to commemorate the Wrights’ contributions to flight. Associate Member Kavya Manyapu received the Outstanding Alumna of the Year Award from Georgia Perimeter College, where she began her studies as a new immigrant from India in 2002. In October, Kavya was recognized with the Boeing Defense and Space Exploration Top Talent award, which sent her to Washington DC to network with Boeing Government Operations. A4H President Brian Shiro and Associate Member Michael Parkhill received Exemplary Service Awards, and Associate A B O V E Flight Member Mindy Howard experiences spatial disorientation, sensory illusions and other effects at SIRIUS Astronaut Training.
Member Casey Stedman received a Dedicated Service Award for public outreach via the Suborbital Applications Research Group (SARG) Ambassadors Program.
biomedical research for manned spaceflight.
Associate Member Susan Jewell completed the Princi-
Associate Member Paul McCall was selected as Universi-
ples in Aerospace and Space Medicine course through
ty Ambassador for Florida International University to the
the UTMB residency training program, which prepares
Florida Space Grant Consortium.
physicians for operational aspects of space medicine and
Associate Member Karina Descartin graduated from Wright State University with an MS in Aerospace Medicine, adding to her previous MD. Associate Member and former Flight Member Bruce Davis completed his PhD in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder on spacecraft thermal management. Associate Member Gary Livesay completed an MS in Aerospace Engineering from Florida Institute of Technology on space propellant depots, and Associate Member Gail Gutowski finished her MS in Geoscience from the University of Texas at Austin on the stability of Greenland’s ice sheet. This past winter, she spent two months in remote Antarctica collecting aerial geophysical data from a DC-3 to study the stability of the West Antarctic ice sheet.
A B O V E Flight Member Luis Zea — shown here at the 2013 NSRC — was
awarded the AIAA Wright Graduate Award.
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