RSVP for the AIAA Houston Section Awards Dinner Meeting on the event page today!
The awards dinner meeting is happening Thursday, June 26, 2014, 5:30pm, NASA JSC Gilruth Center, Alamo Ballroom.
We look forward to celebrating with you!
2014 Spirit of Apollo Scholarship Recipient
It’s with pleasure that the AIAA Houston scholarship committee announces the selection of Haripriya Sundararaju as the recipient of this year’s Spirit of Apollo scholarship. Ms. Sundararaju is pursuing a PhD in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Houston. She was selected out of a group of five students that applied this year. The student has been notified and invited to attend our awards dinner on June 26th.
Rafael E. Munoz
Scholarship Chair
Save the Date: 2013-2014 AIAA Houston Section Awards Dinner Meeting
Mark your calendars for the AIAA Houston Section Awards Dinner Meeting on the evening of Thursday, June 26, 2014. More details, as it becomes available, will appear on the event page.
We look forward to celebrating our members’ and the section’s achievements with you next month.
Presenting… the 2014-2015 AIAA Houston Section Executive Council
AIAA Houston Section membership,
We are pleased to announce the following nominees have been selected by majority vote to the AIAA Houston Section Executive Council positions for the 2014-2015 cycle. Their tenure, with the exception of the councilor position, will be from July 1st 2014 to June 30th 2015:
Chair-Elect: Eryn Beisner
Vice Chair (VC) Technical: Clay Stangle
Vice Chair (VC) Operations: Alan Sisson
Secretary: Zach Tejral
Treasurer: Jennifer Wells
Councilor: Sarah Shull
Please join in congratulating the nominees!
Thank you,
Robert Plunkett
Councilor, AIAA Houston Section
councilor7-2013@aiaahouston.
March/April 2014 Horizons Issue
The March/April 2014 issue of Horizons is now online (36 pages in an 5.2 MB PDF file). Horizons is the newsletter of the Houston Section of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). The cover story is “Climate Change Science & Public Policy,” by Douglas Yazell, Horizons Editor and editorial board member of AIAA’s Aerospace America magazine. This issue also contains, written testimony to Congress about Orion and a Mars 2021 Flyby by AIAA Executive Director Dr. Sandra Magnus, “Detecting Starships,” by Dr. Albert A. Jackson IV, part 6 of 7 of “Building an Astronomer’s Chair,” by Jim Wessel, JSC Astronomical Society Educational Outreach Chair, and much more.