Michelle Marder, a University of Rhode Island Ph.D. student originally from Lynnfield, is one of two students, with Kate Remy, to be awarded with a graduate fellowship from the NASA Rhode Island Space Grant Consortium. This summer, Marder will assist NASA in efforts to research how bacteria survive in extreme environments, including outer space. That is the aim of … [Read more...] about NASA fellowship awarded to URI Ph.D. student Michelle Marder