Faculty Spotlight: From Fellows to the Stars, UH Faculty Continues to Impress

An artist's depiction of NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft silhouetted against Jupiter as it passes over the gas giant's icy moon Europa. A team of researchers in the University of Maryland’s Department of Geological, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences was awarded a three-year, $1.1 million grant from NASA to develop an instrument to detect life elsewhere in the solar system. (Image by NASA/JPL-Caltech)

We’re thrilled to see so many members of the extended UH Community getting their flowers! Check out a few of the recent postings about our previous and returning faculty below.

1. Dr. Richard Bell (3-time UH Lead Fellow; Revolution, Butterfly Effects, and upcoming 2027 Cluster) was recently recognized at UMD’s Faculty/Staff Convocation as a Distinguished Scholar-Teacher! Read more here.

2. Dr. Derek Paley (previous UH Affiliate Fellow; Metamorphosis) was recently named Fellow by the ASME (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers) in recognition of his outstanding engineering achievements in advancing the field of collective dynamics and controls. Read more here.

3. Dr. Ricardo Arevalo Jr. (previous UH Affiliate Fellow; Redesigning Life) is part of a team of researchers in the University of Maryland’s Department of Geological, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences who was recently awarded a three-year, $1.1 million grant from NASA to help create a tool that could help future space missions identify signs of life on other worlds more effectively and efficiently than ever before. Read more here.

Please join us in congratulating these members of the extended UH faculty community!