A group of researchers, including some from UC Davis, have received a three-year, $2,999,998 grant from NASA to identify and characterize life and its biosignatures in frozen sand dunes in Alaska, under conditions similar to dune fields on early Mars and Saturn’s moon Titan.

Inside an L-shaped room in Cruess Hall, surrounded by workstations, 3D printers, sewing machines, tools and mannequins wearing prototypes, Gozde Goncu-Berk builds the future. It’s a future of many possibilities, but those possibilities share a common thread. They’re all based around humanity’s increasing use of wearable technology.

Astronaut Tracy C. Dyson graduated from the College of Letters and Science at UC Davis with a doctorate in chemistry in 1997. In March, Dyson will travel to the International Space Station (ISS) as a flight engineer and member of the Expedition 70/71 crew. The journey marks her third trip to space.