Through the university consortium and strategic partnerships, we bring together university faculty and students to collaborate with ORAU experts on major scientific initiatives that strengthen America’s leading edge in science and technology.
Halls High School celebrated a milestone this week with the unveiling of its newly upgraded biology lab, equipped with cutting-edge STEM technology thanks to the efforts of science department chair and biology/anatomy teacher, Abby Rase, winner of ORAU’s 2025 Extreme Classroom Makeover competition.
Aakash Chhabra, Ph.D., is a NASA Postdoctoral Fellow at the Earth Science Division at NASA Ames. Chhabra's background is studying fires and forest ecology using satellite data or remote sensing data. He did his Ph.D. research in Australia on studying the effects of bushfires, he says, because it's a land shaped by fires. While writing his dissertation, he wrote down some ideas for future research. Then he learned about the NPP, contacted scientists at NASA and the rest, as they say, is history. In this episode of Further Together, Chhabra discusses his research and urges fellow scientists who have novel ideas to pursue them and seek out opportunities like the NASA Postdoctoral Program where those ideas can flourish.
