Fourth-year graduate student Michelle Thompson was awarded a Lloyd V. Berkner Space Policy Internship with the National Academies Space Studies Board. The internship will afford her the opportunity to spend 10 weeks in Washington, D.C., during the Fall 2014 semester. In addition to the Berkner internship, Michelle is the 2014 recipient of the Curson (formerly Shandel) Travel award; information about her funded travel and research interests is available in this newsletter. She is also recipient of a Canadian NSERC (Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada) and a 2014 NESSF (NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship). Michelle's advisor is Assistant Professor Tom Zega.