Earlier this week during a ceremony at the White House, President Barack Obama named researcher Joshua Alwood from the Space Biosciences Division at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif. as a recipient of the 2012 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). The PECASE awards were created to foster innovative developments in science and technology, increase awareness of careers in science and engineering, give recognition to the scientific missions of participating agencies, enhance connections between fundamental research and many of the grand challenges facing the nation, and highlight the importance of science and technology for America’s future. Following the White House ceremony, NASA’s PECASE award winners visited NASA Headquarters in Washington.
To lear more about Alwood’s research, read his guest blog post entitled “A PECASE for Space and Skeletal Biology Research” published on the International Space Station research blog “A Lab Aloft” (April 18, 2014).
More Information:
– Read the White House blog post about the 2012 PECASE awards (April 15, 2014).
– Read the Ames news release about Alwood’s PECASE award (April 15, 2014).
– Read NASA Chief Scientist Ellen Stofan’s blog post about the follow up visit to NASA headquarters in Washington by the five NASA recipients of the 2012 PECASE award (April 15, 2014).
