Astrophysics Science Division

Awards

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NASA Honor Award - Group Achievement Award

2023-01-01

Recipients:Accent Bias Training (660), PRIME Wide Field Imager Team (665), SMD Bridge Program Workshop Organizing Committee (660)

NASA Honor Award - Silver Achievement Medal

2023-01-01

Recipients:Ryan T Derosa (663)

NASA Honor Award - Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility Medal

2023-01-01

Recipients:Ronald S Gamble (660), Marc J Kuchner (667)

NASA Honor Award - Exceptional Technology Achievement Medal

2023-01-01

Recipients:Regina M Caputo (she/her) (661), Elmer H Sharp (665)

NASA Honor Award - Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal

2023-01-01

Recipients:Koji Mukai (662)

NASA Honor Award - Exceptional Public Service Medal

2023-01-01

Recipients:Scott Friedman (665)

NASA Honor Award - Exceptional Service Medal

2023-01-01

Recipients:Scott Barthelmy (661)

HEAD Innovation Prize

2024-01-11

Recipients:Timothy R Kallman (662), Javier A Garcia (662)

Tim Kallman and Javier Garcia (662) have been awarded the 2024’s AAD HEAD Innovation Prize! They share the award with Thomas Dauser “for the development of novel models to describe emission in the strong gravity regime from accreting compact objects.”
The HEAD Innovation Prize

NIAC (NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts) Award

2024-01-04

Recipients:Kenneth G Carpenter (667)

Awarded to perform a study for an optical-UV interferometry on the Moon, "A Lunar Long-Baseline Optical Imaging Interferometer: Artemis-enabled Stellar Imager (AeSI)"
NIAC 2024 Selections

2025 Benjamin Franklin Birthday Celebration

2024-01-01

Recipients:John C Mather (660)

John Mather has been selected as the Honoree for the 2025 Benjamin Franklin Birthday Celebration: Every year the Franklin Birthday Committee selects a theme linked with Benjamin Franklin and honors a person who has done extraordinary work in this field. Recent honorees include Dr. Syliva Earle (Health of the Oceans), Wendell Berry (The Future of Food), and this year Frank Gehry (Craftsmanship).

Excellence in Mentoring

2023-01-01

Recipients:Kimberly A Weaver (662), Jeremy David Schnittman (663)

Excellence in Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA)

2023-01-01

Recipients:Marc J Kuchner (667)

Robert H. Goddard Award - Safety

2023-01-01

Recipients:Shannon Reynier Sankar (663)

Robert H. Goddard Award – Merit

2023-01-01

Recipients:Charles W Bowers (667), Randy A Kimble (667)

Robert H. Goddard Award – Quality and Process Improvement

2023-01-01

Recipients:Swift Mission Operations Center (661)

Robert H. Goddard Award – Secretarial & Clerical

2023-01-01

Recipients:Susan Teates (667)

Robert H. Goddard Award – Science Teams

2023-01-01

Recipients:General Coordinates Network Circular Team (661), PRIME Wide Field Imager Team (665)

Robert H. Goddard Award – Science

2023-01-01

Recipients:Scott Friedman (660), James Fuentes (660), Tyler Parsotan (661)

Robert H. Goddard Award – Outreach Teams

2023-01-01

Recipients:James Webb Space Telescope Social Media Team (660)

Robert H. Goddard Award - Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Accessibility

2023-01-01

Recipients:Tiffany Lewis (661), Gregory Mosby (665)

NASA Honor Award - Group Achievement Award

2022-01-01

Recipients:Time-domain Astrophysics Coordination Hub Team (661)

TACH Team members include: Scott Barthelmy, Chris Bolt, Eric Burns, Dakota Dutko, Joe Foster, Meredith Gibb, Victor Gonzalez-Leon, Tess Jeffe, Israel Martinez, Teresa Sheets, Paul Shoemaker, Leo Singer, Alan Smale, Donggeun Tak, and Judith Racusin.

NASA Honor Award - Silver Achievement Medal (Group)

2022-01-01

Recipients:X-ray Quantum Calorimeter (XQC) Payload Team (662)

NASA Honor Award - Early Career Achievement Medal

2022-01-01

Recipients:Edmund Hodges-Kluck (662), Gregory Olmschenk (667)

NASA Honor Award - Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility Medal

2022-01-01

Recipients:Rita M Sambruna (she/her/hers) (660)