Vermont Space Grant Consortium  and NASA EPSCoR
"A Statewide Connection to Aerospace, Science, Engineering, Research and Technology"

             VSGC -NASA STUDENT RESEARCH AWARD (NSIP) *

2009-2010
(NSIP)  NASA Student Research Award

Mentored Research
NASA Student Aerospace Workforce Development Research Internship Program (SAWDRIP) Award

BENJAMIN SCARALIA
Ben was awarded the John Mather Nobel Scholarship Award*
RPI, Vermont Resident
 attended NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
June-Aug 2009 with Dr. Igor Eberstein and the NSAS Advanced Supercomputer Division, Greenbelt, MD on the Photo Dissociation of Hydrogen and Deuterium.

*Presented by the John and Jane Mather Foundation, which in turn was funded from the award of the 2006 Nobel Prize for Physics to Dr. John Mather for his work on the "Big Bang" theory and presented by the Henry Foundation, Inc.  Ben is only one of 17 international students to have won the award and the first student in the state of Vermont.

PRESS RELEASE
RUTLAND COLLEGE STUDENT EARNS NASA NOBEL SCHOLAR AWARD