Julio Hernandez and Oscar Ojeda recently returned from trips to research stations, called analog habitats, that are designed specifically to simulate the physiological and psychological environment of life on Mars.
Project Bridge was established with a generous $5 million gift from benefactors Bill Uhrig, an AAE alumnus, and Anastasia Vournas. It is the first major achievement toward the Board of Trustees’ recent unveiling of its goal of securing private resources toward this effort at the university.
Joseph Jewell, an assistant professor in AAE, was selected to receive a highly competitive early-career award program from the Office of Naval Research.