W. Hawkins Clay
Hawkins graduated from the University of Chicago in 2020 and recently received the NASA NSTGRO Fellowship. He is currently a graduate student at UCSB.
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Crystal Kim
Hailing from the Pacific Northwest, Crystal graduated from UC Santa Cruz in 2021. She is now a Physics graduate student at UCSB. Crystal recently was awarded the NASA Space Technology Graduate Research Opportunity (NSTGRO) Fellowship. She enjoys traveling, hiking, and figure collecting, and is a US Marine Corps veteran. She lives with her husband, Hamza, and her cat, Puggles.
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Majid Mohammad
Majid graduated from the Colorado School of Mines in 2021 and is currently a graduate student at UCSB. He was awarded the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship in 2023.
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Josh Breckenridge
Josh graduated from the University of Cincinnati in 2022 and is currently a graduate student at UCSB.
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Aled Cuda
Aled graduated from Berkeley in 2022 and is currently a graduate student at UCSB. He was recently awarded the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and the NSTGRO Fellowship (declined).
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Michael Arena
Michael graduated from the Williams College in 2023 and is currently a graduate student at UCSB.
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Nikki Zivkov
Nikki graduated from the UCLA in 2023 and is currently a graduate student at UCSB.
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