Robert H. Goddard Award – Quality and Process Improvement
2023
Recipients:
Swift Mission Operations Center
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, Code 600 Foreign Travel LSS
Robert H. Goddard Award – Science Teams
2023
Recipients:
General Coordinates Network Circular Team
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, JPSSS-2 Instrument and Imagery Cal & Val Teams, PRIME Wide Field Imager Team, WSA Team
Robert H. Goddard Award – Science
2023
Recipients:
Tyler Parsotan (661)
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Recipients
, Helen M Amos (610), Antonia Gambacorta (613), Sampa Das (614), Scott Friedman, James Fuentes, Hyunju K Connor (673), Thomas J. Fauchez (693), Brian D Beckley (61A)
Robert H. Goddard Award - Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Accessibility
2023
Recipients:
Tiffany Lewis (661)
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, Trena M Ferrell (610), Gregory Mosby (665)
Robert H. Goddard Award – Science
07.13.2022
Recipients:
Sibasish Laha (661), Tonia Moira Venters (661)
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, James Carr, Amin Dezfuli (610.1), Robert Alexander Emberson (617), Maurice A Leutenegger (662), Julie M. Nicely (614), Jackson Tan (613), Jia Yue (674), Consortium for Hayabusa2 Analysis of Organic Solubles, GEDI Mission and Science Operations Team, Global Precipitation Climatology Project Team, Landsat Calibration and Validation Team
NASA Honor Award - Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal
2022
Recipients:
Sibasish Laha (661)
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, Jane R Rigby (665), Michael W McElwain (667), Charles Nickolos Arge (671)
NASA Honor Award - Group Achievement Award
2022
Recipient:
Time-domain Astrophysics Coordination Hub Team
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.
HEAD Mid-Career Prize
2022
Recipient:
Brad Cenko (661)
The 2022 HEAD Mid-Career Prize is awarded to Dr. Brad Cenko "for outstanding leadership, discovery and characterization of high-energy transient phenomena from tidal disruption events, counterparts to gravitational wave mergers, and gamma ray bursts."
NASA Honor Award - Early Career Public Achievement Medal
09.29.2020
Recipients:
Eric Burns
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, Kyle Robert Murphy (674), Katelynn Greer
NASA Honor Award - Exceptional Public Achievement Medal
09.29.2020
Recipients:
Katja Pottschmidt (661)
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Recipients
, Jacob B Reed (617), Lisa M Crisp (699)
AAS Fellows
02.25.2020
Recipients:
Sangeeta Malhotra (661)
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Recipients
, Alice K Harding (663), Maxim L Markevitch (662), John C Mather (660), William D Pence (662), Tod E Strohmayer (662), Jean Hebb Swank (662), Kimberly A Weaver (662)
The Fellows program of the American Astronomical Society (AAS), the major organization of professional astronomers in North America, was established in 2019 to honor members for their contributions toward the AAS mission of enhancing and sharing humanity's scientific understanding of the universe. The following members of ASD were honored among the first group of AAS Fellows, announced Feb. 25:
Edward Cheng
Alice Harding
Sangeeta Malhotra
Maxim Markevitch
John Mather
William Pence
Tod Strohmayer
Jean Hebb Swank
Kimberly Weaver
Nancy Grace Roman Technology Fellowship
11.20.2019
Recipient:
Regina M Caputo (she/her) (661)
Congratulations to Regina Caputo on her selection as a Nancy Grace Roman Technology Fellow.
GSFC Honor Award - Outreach
2018
Recipients:
Fermi@10 Team (Elizabeth Ferrara)
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Recipients
, Yaireska M Collado-Vega (674), LRO Public Engagement Team (Noah Petro), ICESat-2 Outreach Team (Valerie Casasanto)
GSFC Honor Award - Robert H. Goddard Award of Merit
2018
Recipients:
Scott D Barthelmy (661)
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, James F Gleason (614), Robert F Pfaff (675)
GSFC Honor Award - New Opportunities Captured Team
2018
Recipients:
BurstCube Team (Jeremy Perkins)
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, Enceladus Life Signatures and Habitability (ELSAH) Mission Team (Jennifer Eigenbrode)
NASA Honor Award - Exceptional Service Medal
2018
Recipients:
Scott D Barthelmy (661)
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, George J Huffman (612)
NASA Honor Award - Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal
2017
Recipients:
Sylvain Germain Guiriec (661), John W Mitchell (661)
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, George V Khazanov (673), Virgil Kunde, Ping Yang
Dan David Prize
2017
Recipient:
Neil Gehrels
Neil Gehrels was posthumously awarded the $1 million 2017 Dan David Prize for "being the principal investigator of NASA's Swift Gamma Ray Burst Mission, which has transformed our view of the transient and variable sky in gamma-rays and in X-rays."
NASA Honor Award - Group Achievement Award
09.15.2016
Recipients:
Super TIGER Recovery Team (Thomas Hams)
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, Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) Science Team (Alan Title), MMS/FPI Commissioning Team (Alexander Barrie), MODIS Characterization Support Team (Xiaoxiong Xiong), STORM Suborbital Rocket Experiment Team (David Sibec), VIIRS Level-1 Software Working Group (Frederick Patt)
Breakthrough Prizes in Fundamental Physics
05.03.2016
Recipients:
Neil Gehrels (661), Leo Pound Singer (661)
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, Jordan B Camp (663)
Please congratulate our scientists Neil Gehrels, Jordan Camp and Leo Singer on their receipt of a Special Award made to the LIGO team by Yuri Milner. The award is a special addition to the Breakthrough Prizes in Fundamental Physics awarded every fall. The LIGO team are receiving this award for the first detection of ripples in space time, known as gravitational waves, from the collision of two gigantic black holes. Further details are contained in the New York Times article.
GSFC Honor Award - Science
2015
Recipients:
Brad Cenko (661)
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Recipients
, Alexander Marshak (613), Nai-Yung Christina Hsu (613), Lok N Lamsal (614), Matthew T Deland (614), Francesco Tombesi (662), Hiroya Yamaguchi (662), Stefanie N Milam (691), Avi M Mandell (693), Michael Doyle Smith (693), Caroline Freissinet (699)
IUPAP Young Scientist Prize in Astrophysics
Sept, 2015
Recipient:
Sylvain Germain Guiriec (661)
The 2015 IUPAP Young Scientist Prize in Astrophysics was awarded to Sylvain Guiriec for his “insightful and innovative contributions towards understanding the nature of Gamma Ray Burst (GRB) prompt emission, in particular the establishment of multi-component spectra, and the discovery of a new Peak Energy – Luminosity relation showing that GRBs can be used as standard candles and thereby as unique cosmological probes.”
Klumpke-Roberts Award of The Astronomical Society of the Pacific
Jul, 2015
Recipients:
Jerry T Bonnell (660), Bob Nemiroff (Michigan Tech)
The Klumpke-Roberts Award of the ASP is awarded annually to an individual or individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the public understanding and appreciation of astronomy. Jerry and Bob were selected for their work on Astronomy Picture of the Day.