{"id":4164,"date":"2022-01-28T13:05:14","date_gmt":"2022-01-28T19:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.valpo.edu\/physics-astronomy\/?p=1740"},"modified":"2025-07-24T10:14:55","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T10:14:55","slug":"alumna-awarded-nasa-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.valpo.edu\/college-of-arts-and-sciences\/alumna-awarded-nasa-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumna Awarded NASA Grant"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cuwip.physics.uiowa.edu\/people\/rachael-filwett\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Rachael (Jensema) Filwett,<\/a> Valpo alumna, is a postdoctoral research scholar and adjunct professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy. She has been&nbsp;awarded $149,939 from NASA&#8217;s&nbsp;Heliophysics Flight Opportunity Studies Program for the&nbsp;proposed LOBSTR (LabOratory for the Behavior of the SloT Region)&nbsp;mission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/physics.uiowa.edu\/news\/2022\/01\/filwett-awarded-nasa-funds-proposed-lobstr-mission?fbclid=IwAR1_UNTb4ML8SOFLI5DXxOTuoCm3HPCeDwHiy1JmJB6b4uZhllgSQxWA0YM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">See the Press Release from Iowa<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rachael (Jensema) Filwett, Valpo alumna, is a postdoctoral research scholar and adjunct professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":4534,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19,22,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements","category-physics-and-astronomy","category-physics-and-astronomy-announcements"],"acf":[],"author_meta":{"display_name":"Andrew Richter","author_link":"https:\/\/staging.valpo.edu\/college-of-arts-and-sciences\/author\/arichte1\/"},"featured_img":"https:\/\/staging.valpo.edu\/college-of-arts-and-sciences\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/ValpoCampus4-Resized-300x192.webp","coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/staging.valpo.edu\/college-of-arts-and-sciences\/category\/announcements\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Announcements<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/staging.valpo.edu\/college-of-arts-and-sciences\/category\/physics-and-astronomy\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Physics and Astronomy<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/staging.valpo.edu\/college-of-arts-and-sciences\/category\/physics-and-astronomy-announcements\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Physics and Astronomy Announcements<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Announcements<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Physics and Astronomy<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Physics and Astronomy Announcements<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 4 years ago","modified":"Updated 9 months ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on January 28, 2022","modified":"Updated on July 24, 2025"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on January 28, 2022 1:05 pm","modified":"Updated on July 24, 2025 10:14 am"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.valpo.edu\/college-of-arts-and-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.valpo.edu\/college-of-arts-and-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.valpo.edu\/college-of-arts-and-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.valpo.edu\/college-of-arts-and-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.valpo.edu\/college-of-arts-and-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4164"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/staging.valpo.edu\/college-of-arts-and-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4187,"href":"https:\/\/staging.valpo.edu\/college-of-arts-and-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4164\/revisions\/4187"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.valpo.edu\/college-of-arts-and-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.valpo.edu\/college-of-arts-and-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.valpo.edu\/college-of-arts-and-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.valpo.edu\/college-of-arts-and-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}