USRA Tarantino Scholarship for OSIRIS-REx Undergraduate Team Member

USRA Tarantino Scholarship for OSIRIS-REx Undergraduate Team Member

UA undergraduate Namrah Habib, a member of the OSIRIS-REx image processing working group, has received the 2015 Universities Space Research Association (USRA) Frederick A. Tarantino Memorial Scholarship Award. Ms. Habib, a junior majoring in Aerospace Engineering and Chemical Engineering, was selected from among 43 eligible applicants for one of four USRA scholarship awards this year. Professor Renu Malhotra, University of Arizona representative to USRA, presented the award, a certificate and a $2,000 stipend, to Ms. Habib on October 6, 2015, in the Kuiper Space Sciences building. Ms. Habib helped establish the OSIRIS-REx stereo-photogrammetry laboratory while working with Daniella DellaGiustina, OSIRIS-REx Image Processing Lead Scientist.

Pictured from left to right: Professor Cholik Chan (Associate Head, Dept. of Aerospace Engineering), Professor Renu Malhotra, Ms. Namrah Habib, Ms. Daniella DellaGiustina (OSIRIS-REx Image Processing Lead Scientist), Professor Anthony Muscat (Head, Dept. of Chemical & Environmental Engineering)