Michigan Space Grant Consortium

Art depicting an extraterrestrial landscape with large text that reads "Grow Food in Space"

Students & educators: Help NASA solve a real challenge! The Plant the Moon Challenge invites K-college students to grow crops in lunar/Martian soil simulant. Design experiments, compete globally & contribute to space exploration. 🚀 Register now: plantthemoon.com

Meet our 2025–2026 awardees! Graduate fellowship awardee Conor Gowan from Wayne State University received a Research Seed award for “Leaching of organic compounds from polyethylene and formation of iodinated disinfection by-products in ISS potable water.” #MSGCNASA #WeAreNASAMI

Meet our 2025–2026 awardees! Educational program awardee Emily Geiger received a Research Seed award for “Empowering educators: expanding Michigan’s project-based learning network statewide.” #MSGCNASA #WeAreNASAMI

Meet our 2026 awardees! Graduate fellowship awardee John Gargasz from Grand Valley State University received a Research Seed award for “Emerging food webs within newly constructed interdunal wetlands.”

Meet our 2025 awardees! Graduate fellowship awardee Grace Forthaus from Grand Valley State University received a Research Seed award for “Unraveling the invasion: genomic insights into the spread and adaptation of hemlock woolly adelgid in eastern North America.” #MSGCNASA #WeAreNASAMI

Meet our 2025 awardees! Graduate fellowship awardee Logan Forshee from University of Michigan received a Research Seed award for “Characterizing the sources and chemistry of individual aerosol particles participating in cloud formation in the Arctic.” #MSGCNASA #WeAreNASAMI

Meet our 2025 awardees! Undergraduate research grant awardee Joseph Fogt received a Research Seed award for “Computational probing of the effect of radiation damage on high-temperature superconductors.” #MSGCNASA #WeAreNASAMI

Meet our 2025 awardees! Undergraduate research grant awardee Cameron Doane from Grand Valley State University received a Research Seed award for “Refining wetland identification practices using an ecological site framework.” #MSGCNASA #WeAreNASAMI

Meet our 2025–2026 awardees! Undergraduate research grant awardee Kate DeMann from Hope College received a Research Seed award for “Loss and recovery of olfactory function following acute hypoxia on zebrafish.” #MSGCNASA #WeAreNASAMI

Meet our 2025
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2026 Awardees! Undergraduate Researcher Morgan DeCroix from received a Research Seed
award for Effect of 3d Printing Orientation on the Adhesion Properties of Bonded Single-Lap Joints.
#MSGCNASA #WeareNASAMI

Become a NASA Response Mapper: Help Strengthen Hurricane Response from the Ground Up | NASA Applied Sciences June 1 marked the official start of the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season.

Become a NASA Response Mapper! With hurricane season underway, NASA is inviting the public to participate in the GLOBE Observer program’s “NASA Response Mappers,” a call for data that focuses on documenting land cover changes before and after hurricanes. myumi.ch/Xy7ZQ

Last week to register for our annual Fall Conference at CMU on October 18, 2025! Just a friendly reminder that everyone needs to register individually if they plan on attending. Including co-authors, guests, parents, mentors etc. myumi.ch/2rQWJ

Meet our 2025 Awardees! Professor Bos from @HopeCollege received an Educational Program award for “See Yourself in STEM Today for a Better Tomorrow.”

Tune into NASA Aeronautics 101 tomorrow , August 27th at 6pm! Attendees will get the latest updates on NASA aeronautics missions, explore career pathways to NASA, and discover student aeronautics opportunities. myumi.ch/e3j1b

Registration is open for our annual Fall Conference at CMU on October 18, 2025! Just a friendly reminder that everyone needs to register individually if they plan on attending. Including co-authors, guests, parents, mentors etc. myumi.ch/2rQWJ

NASA Student Launch Challenge - NASA Middle/high school and college-level student teams design, build, test, and launch a high-powered rocket for the NASA Student Launch challenge.

It actually IS rocket science! NASA’s Student Launch competition challenges teams to design, build, and fly a high-powered rocket containing a science or engineering payload. Proposals are due Monday, Sept. 22. myumi.ch/kPjE5

Registration of MSGC's annual Fall Conference is now OPEN! This year's conference will be hosted at Central Michigan University on Saturday, October 18th. myumi.ch/2rQWJ

Apply now for the Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS)! Proposals are currently being accepted from schools, museums, and community youth organizations to host an amateur radio contact with an astronaut aboard the ISS between Jan. 1 and June 30, 2026. myumi.ch/P3d47

Meet our 2025 Awardees! Professor Beetham from @OaklandU received a Research Seed Grant award for “The role of heterogeneity in iron particle combustion-- toward renewable, extraterrestrial energy sources."

Registration for our annual Fall Conference opens on Friday! myumi.ch/W6d5r

Tune in later today for a Virtual Science Briefing: Andromeda Galaxy! Learn about the formation and evolution of our nearest large neighbor galaxy, the Andromeda Galaxy. myumi.ch/y1bEX

Meet our 2025 Awardees! Jackson Barnes from @MichiganStateU received a Graduate Fellowship award for “Assessing the long-term dynamics of primordial binary planetesimal systems".

The MSGC Executive Board & Staff held our biannual Board Strategy Retreat at @GVSU Lake Michigan Center at the Robert B. Annis Water Resources Institute. We had a wonderful time & enjoyed our time within the Institute as well as our voyage on the W.G. Jackson! Thank you so much for having us!

Applications for the Fall 2025 session of the NASA L'SPACE Program are now open! The two 15-week, virtual, hands-on academies are FREE to students. Applications due August 24, 2025 myumi.ch/P3WbQ

Tune in tomorrow, 8/1 at 1pm for a #NASAWebinar: NASA Intern Experience: Insights From Interns and Mentors! Join the NASA internship team for an interactive webinar to explore exciting internship opportunities and requirements for NASA internships. myumi.ch/g3rmQ

Join My NASA Data for a webinar to explore the newly enhanced Earth System Data Explorer, a powerful tool for visualizing and analyzing NASA’s extensive Earth science data tomorrow, 7/30 at 1pm. myumi.ch/3Rme6

Tune in tomorrow, 7/23 for a NASA Webinar: NASA Aeronautics 101! Attendees will get the latest updates on NASA’s Quesst mission and the X-59 aircraft that aims to quiet the boom of supersonic flight. myumi.ch/QwG7b

Save the dates for NASA's Career Day 2025 Monday, Sept. 15 – Friday, Sept. 19! Whether you’re pursuing a four-year degree, attending a two -year community college program, or getting hands-on technical training, there is a place in space for you! myumi.ch/JPdrr

YouTube video by Learn With NASA STEMonstrations: 3D Printing

Check out the latest STEMonstration episode! NASA astronaut Suni Williams explains how 3D printing technology is used on the International Space Station to support groundbreaking research and prepare for missions to the Moon and Mars. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wGA...

Meet our 2025 Awardees! Izabella from @UMich received an Graduate Fellowship award for “Spatially Resolved Observations of Reactive Bromine Chemistry across the North Slope of Alaska Oil Fields and Snow-covered Arctic Sea Ice and Tundra.”