Siddapur taluk’s research student Dinesh Hegde receives NASA grant


Team Udayavani, Aug 21, 2021, 7:47 PM IST

A native of Sashiguli village in Siddapur taluk of Uttara Kannada district who is presently doing research in an American university, has been chosen for the prestigious NASA Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology (FINESST) grant, along with another doctoral student, Katherine Davidson.

Dinesh Hegde, is a second-year doctoral student working as a Graduate Research Assistant in the Department of Space Science and at the UAH Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research.

He will receive a $135,000 stipend to cover tuition, research activities and travel costs to attend workshops and conferences to continue his research at UAH (University of Alabama in Huntsville), which is a part of the University of Alabama System.

His proposal, titled ‘Modelling Space Weather with Quantified Uncertainties’, made him eligible for the grant.

Born in small village in Uttara Kannada district, Hegde did his primary education at Vajagadde Government School in Siddapur taluk and then completed his high school at Harsikatta in Kannada medium. He then completed his B.Sc from Yuvaraja College in Mysuru and M.Sc from Mysore University before taking up research.

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