NASA Delaware Space Grant 2025 Annual Research Symposium

April 11, 2025, 10:00am – 3:00pm

Delaware AeroSpace Education Foundation (DASEF)

Smyrna, Delaware

By Invitation Only

Agenda:                                       

10:00am
Student Poster Set-Up, Poster Presentations & NetworkingLight Breakfast Refreshments and Coffee
10:30am
Opening Welcome, Introductions and Student Certificate Presentations

Graduate Fellows 2024-25
Undergraduate Tuition Awardees 2024-25
LiftOff
RockSat-C Team 2024
RockOn! Teams 2024
Summer Research Interns 2024
Mechanical Engineering Senior Design Team 2024



Dr. William Matthaeus,
Martin A Pomerantz Chaired Professor
Director, Delaware Space Grant Consortium
University of Delaware
10:50am
The University of Delaware Ionospheric Probe Experiment 5Kiersten Ebersole 
University of Delaware
11:10am
DAPPEr: The Delaware Atmospheric Plasma Probe ExperimentTimothy Tomaszewski
University of Delaware
11:30am
NASA LiftOff Institute: Inspiring the Next Generation of Space ScientistsLyles Puleo
Marshall Elementary, Christina School District
12:00pm
Group Photo followed by Lunch, Poster Presentations & NetworkingAssorted Sandwiches, Salads, Chips and Cookies
1:00pm
The ProgressionJose LaTorre
Delaware Technical Community College
1:20pm
Nonlinear Evolution and Energy Dissipation in Shear-Driven Collisionless Plasma Turbulence
Josh Goodwill
Graduate Fellow
University of Delaware
1:40pm
Stellar Problems in Cataclysmic VariablesConor Larsen
Graduate Fellow
University of Delaware
2:00pm
Field Monitoring of Fine Sediment Erosion and Deposition in the Streambed of a Gravel-bedded RiverChristy Li
Graduate Fellow
University of Delaware
2:20pm
A Joule-heated Molten Salt Membrane for Ammonia Synthesis Via Membrane ReactorGenevieve Yarema
Graduate Fellow
University of Delaware
2:40pm
Wrap up, Poster Presentations & Networking