SC Division Awards & Recognition

Space Biosciences Staff Awards

NASA Honor Award Recipients

Distinguished Service Medal

James Connolly (2013)

Early Career Achievement Medal

Nicole A. Rayl (2012)
David J. Smith (2016)
Jonathan M. Galazka (2017)

Jessica Lee (2023)

Samrawit Gebre (2023)

Equal Employment Opportunity Medal

Dana G. Bolles (2014)

Exceptional Engineering Achievement Medal

David L. Pletcher (2015)

Exceptional Achievement Medal

Taylor Sands-Marcinkowski (2023)

Ahleah Rohr Daniel (2023)

Matthew Lera (2023)

Julie Levri (2023)

Brandon Maryatt (2023)

Janet E. Beegle (2015)

Exceptional Administrative Achievement Medal

Josefina M. Serrano (2017)

Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal

Ruth Globus (2015)

Exceptional Service Medal

Kara Martin (2023)

Barbara Navarro (2013)
Eduardo Almeida (2014)
April E. Ronca Finco (2016)

Group Achievement Medal

Ames Waste Management Team (2023)

Silver Achievement Medal

Sidney Sun (2013)

Outstanding Leadership Medal

Mike Skidmore (2008)
James P. Connolly (2010)
A.C. Maese (2012)
Paresh A. Bhavsar (2014)
Sidney Sun (2015)
Cecilia Wigley (2015)
Macarena P. Parra (2017)

Ames Honor Award Recipients

Administrative Professional Award

Natalie R. Lemar (2009)

Engineer Award

Louie T. Luzod (2009)

Supervisor/Manager Award

James Connolly (2010)

Group/Team Award

STL Team (2010)
TROPI-2 Payload Team (2010)
MI2 Team (2011)
STL2 Team (2011)
Ultrasound 2 Project Team (2011)
Fruit Flies in Space Team (2012)
Bion-M1 Project Team (2013)
Cell Bio Tech Demo Team (2013)
SporeSat Project Team (2014)
Fruit Fly Lab Team (2015)
ISS Bioculture Anomaly Resolution Team (2015)
ISS Payloads Flight Processing Team (2015)
WetLab-2 RNA Extraction Team (2015)
Exploration Medical Capability Electrocardiogram Test (2016)
WetLab-2 ISS Payload Team (2016)

Contractor Employee Award

Paula M. Dumars (2011)
Kevin Sato (2011)
Sungshin Y. Choi (2017)

Project Management Award

Sidney C. Sun (2010)
David L. Pletcher (2011)
Nicole Rayl (2013)

Mentor Award

John A. Hogan (2013)

Scientist or Researcher Award

Ruth Globus (2015)

Supervisor/Manager Award

Cecilia Wigley (2010)
John Hogan (2016)
Marianne Sowa (2017)

Diversity and Opportunity Award

Joshua Alwood (2017)

Space Flight Awareness Honoree Award Recipients

Gianine Figliozzi (2015)
Amy C. Chu (2016)
David Pletcher (2016)

Space Flight Awareness Management Award Recipients

Paresh Bhavsar (2014)
Elizabeth Taylor (2017)

Silver Snoopy Award Recipients

Paula M. Dumars (2010)
David Heathcote (2010)
Louie T. Luzod (2010)
Nicole A. Rayl (2010)
Kevin Sato (2010)
Marianne K. Steele (2010)
Kenny K. Vassigh (2010)
Karin E. Perkins (2011)
Lance Q. Ellingson (2012)
Diana C. Ly (2012)
Kris Vogelsong (2012)
Ann Kapusta (2015)
Kara Martin (2015)
Rudy Cotillon (2016)
Stephen Gila (2016)
David Pletcher (2016)
Linda Scibor (2016)
Sungshin Y. Choi (2017)

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