{"id":1302,"date":"2025-11-08T22:35:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T22:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev-ucf-creol.pantheonsite.io\/creol-ucf-edu-astrophotonics\/?p=1302"},"modified":"2026-01-13T18:16:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T18:16:10","slug":"tara-crowe-prof-peter-delfyett-prof-kerri-donaldson-hanna-among-8-inaugural-spaceu-awardees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/creol.ucf.edu\/astrophotonics\/2025\/11\/08\/tara-crowe-prof-peter-delfyett-prof-kerri-donaldson-hanna-among-8-inaugural-spaceu-awardees\/","title":{"rendered":"Tara Crowe, Prof. Peter Delfyett, Prof. Kerri Donaldson Hanna among 8 inaugural SpaceU awardees!"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"1302\" class=\"elementor elementor-1302\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-0d6ad4c elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"0d6ad4c\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-b3bcf4a\" data-id=\"b3bcf4a\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-88f4ae1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-button\" data-id=\"88f4ae1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"button.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-button-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-button elementor-button-link elementor-size-sm\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/ucf-honors-8-shining-stars-with-inaugural-spaceu-award\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-content-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-text\">UCF News story here<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-21d3c2dc elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"21d3c2dc\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-4c51e239\" data-id=\"4c51e239\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6359153c elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"6359153c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1303 img-fluid\" src=\"https:\/\/dev-ucf-creol.pantheonsite.io\/creol-ucf-edu-astrophotonics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2026\/01\/NLP_4496-medium-300x200.avif\" alt=\"\" \/> \u00a0<\/p><p>CREOL Astrophotonics PhD student Tara Crowe won the &#8220;Student Space Research Award&#8221; for her work on quantum-inspired imaging with photonic lanterns.<\/p><p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1313 img-fluid\" src=\"https:\/\/dev-ucf-creol.pantheonsite.io\/creol-ucf-edu-astrophotonics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2026\/01\/NLP_4508-medium-300x200.avif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p><p>CREOL Astrophotonics Professor Peter Delfyett won the &#8220;Life Achievement Award&#8221; for his broad career efforts for photonics and space research.<\/p><p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1312 img-fluid\" src=\"https:\/\/dev-ucf-creol.pantheonsite.io\/creol-ucf-edu-astrophotonics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2026\/01\/NLP_4506-medium-300x200.avif\" alt=\"Kerri Donaldson Hanna wins Space U award\" \/><\/p><p>CREOL Astrophotonics collaborator Professor Kerri Donaldson Hanna won the &#8220;Mid-Career Achievement Award&#8221; for her work in lunar science.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UCF News story here \u00a0 \u00a0 CREOL Astrophotonics PhD student Tara Crowe won the &#8220;Student Space Research Award&#8221; for her work on quantum-inspired imaging with photonic lanterns. 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