Voices :: UTA Physics Student Earns NASA Graduate Fellowship to Study Ionosphere

A doctoral student in space physics has been
awarded a NASA fellowship to fund her research about
currents in the ionosphere, which stretches 50-400 miles above
the Earth’s surface at the very edge of space. Tre’Shunda James,
a native of Houston in her second year of postgraduate work at
UTA, earned a NASA Graduate Research
Fellowship for her project, becoming the second UTA
physics graduate student to receive a NASA GRF in the past three
years. Funding is provided by the NASA
Office of STEM Engagement’s Minority Research and Education
Project. James discusses her research, the award, and shares her
winding journey to UTA and the field of space physics in this
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