Hisham Ali earned 1st place in the student oral presentation competition at 16th International Planetary Probe Workshop in Oxford, UK.  He gave a 10-minute oral talk on some of the MHD energy generation experiments conducted as part of his dissertation work on Magnetohydrodynamic Energy Generation and Flow Control for Planetary Entry Vehicles . Hisham won an

Ethan Hopping was accepted to the 2019 Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory Graduate Summer School.

Sara Miller's paper from the 2018 AIAA Propulsion & Energy Forum was selected for the 2018 AIAA Aerospace Power Systems Best Student Paper Award.

David Gomez was awarded a 2019 NASA Space Technology Research Fellowship. David's research will focus on the development of a highly throttlable, bipropellant (Xe-Kr) Hall thruster and investigations into the newly discovered oscillation modes in magnetically shielded thrusters.

Jean Luis Suazo was selected as a 2019 Retaining Inspirational Students in Technology and Engineering (RISE) scholar. Jean Luis was selected based on his demonstrated leadership and extensive mentoring experience.