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.

Dr. Ellen Howell received a Ph.D. from LPL in December, 1995. She moved to Puerto Rico and worked as a post-doc in the Geology Department of the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez. She then spent 14 years at the Arecibo Observatory as a staff scientist.