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| Corporate Affairs and Governance | The Corporate Affairs and Governance organization is comprised of some of USRA’s longest-tenured staff (30 years for Jim Lochner and more than 40 years for David Cummings) and is led by USRA’s newest Vice President, Rochelle Ford, who began in May 2021. The team’s work spans university relations, government relations, external communications and more. It’s likely you’ve worked directly or indirectly with someone from this group so let’s have a quick Q&A to learn more about these individuals.
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| 22nd Annual AMOS Conference | | A hybrid Advanced Maui Optical and Space Surveillance Technologies (AMOS) conference was held 15-17 September at the Wailua Beach Resort in Maui, Hawai’i. Despite the strict Hawaii entry constraints, over 660 participated onsite, including three USRA conference attendees, with over 400 online viewers. The focus of this conference was Space Domain Awareness, with an emphasis on detecting and maintaining custody of over 35,000 space objects in the near-Earth environment, many of them active military and civilian satellites. This year saw a surge in AFRL and U.S. Space Force as well as academic interest in how to do the same job, but in the cislunar environment, where the increased distance and sheer volume of space are not your friends. The photo is a view of the speakers’ podium, and if you could look closely at the sponsors banner to the right of the speaker, you woul see the USRA logo. While USRA’s sponsorship is alphabetically the last, it is one of the most prominent sponsors listed. USRA has been a corporate sponsor of this AMOS event for over a decade. | | |
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| | Explore Live Events on ULearn | Access upcoming and past Live Events on ULearn by navigating to Library > Showcase > Skillsoft Live Events. Some examples of past events include: - Smartcuts: Accelerating Innovation, Mangaging Change, & Thinking Differently
- The Creativity Leap: Unleash Curiousity, Improvisation, and Intuition at Work
- The Get Better Mindset
- The Power of Insight: How Self-Awareness Helps Us Succeed at Work and in Life
- The Necessary Art of Persuasion
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| | USRA’s Paul Schenk Receives the 2021 American Geophysical Union Whipple Award | The American Geophysical Union (AGU) recently announced USRA’s Dr. Paul Schenk, at the Lunar and Planetary Institute, as the winner of the 2021 Whipple Award and Lecture. This prestigious award recognizes significant contributions to the field of planetary science from a mid-career or senior scientist. AGU annually recognizes individuals on the basis of “meritorious work and service toward the advancement and promotion of discovery and solution science.”
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| | International Astronomical Union Names Lunar Crater After Arctic Explorer Matthew Henson: Name Proposed by LPI and NASA | The International Astronomical Union has named a lunar crater—the “Henson Crater”— after Dr. Matthew Alexander Henson, an extraordinary explorer who journeyed to the Earth’s North Pole. He led several expeditions to the Arctic and was awarded a medal by the U.S. Navy in 1945 for his Arctic exploration. In 1996, the U.S. Navy commissioned a ship called USNS Henson. Shortly before his death in 1955, he received two honorary degrees from Howard University and Morgan State University.
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| | USRA Receives Top Non-Profit Workplace Award | USRA is proud to announce that it’s the recipient of a Top Non-Profit Workplace Award. This accolade was granted by Energage, a company that draws on employee feedback to maintain the industry’s most robust workplace culture benchmarks.
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| | SOFIA Enables First Clear Look into Star Forming Region--Westerlund 2 | With the help of the Stratospheric Observatory’s (SOFIA) FEEDBACK program, researchers obtained the first clear picture of how massive stars begin to form.
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