The Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) at the University of Colorado Boulder has announced the 2025 recipients of the Barth Family Endowed Graduate Fellowship, an award created to support emerging leaders in space science and engineering.
The fellowship honors the legacy of Dr. Charles A. Barth, LASP’s longtime director and a pioneering planetary scientist whose career spanned five decades. Established by his family, the fund continues his commitment to hands-on student involvement in NASA missions and space research.
This year’s awardees are:
- Anant Telikicherla who works with Tom Woods on analyzing solar flares using data from the LASP-built MinXSS and GOES-XRS instruments. He also contributes to the development of new solar missions at LASP, including the SEUSHI instrument aboard the SDO-EVE calibration rocket and CubeSat missions such as SunCET and CubIXSS.
- Mathew van den Heever who has been working with Peter Pilewskie on the upcoming Libera mission. His research has focused on optimizing the radiance to irradiance conversions for the mission by analyzing the effect of operational parameters in an effort to minimize the uncertainty associated with this conversion.
Each year, the fellowship provides at least two awards of $1,000 or more to graduate students conducting research at LASP. The program continues Barth’s legacy of teaching, mentorship, and hands-on education and training, which inspired many students, some of whom still work at LASP today.
For more information on the fellowship, go to Barth Family Endowed Graduate Fellowship Fund – Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics.
-By LASP Communications Team
Founded a decade before NASA, the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado Boulder (LASP) is revolutionizing human understanding of the cosmos. LASP is deeply committed to inspiring and educating the next generation of space explorers. From the first exploratory rocket measurements of Earth’s upper atmosphere to trailblazing observations of every planet in the solar system, LASP continues to build on its remarkable history with a nearly $1 billion portfolio of new research and engineering programs.
