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KU Researcher Hayley Beltz Wins Prestigious NASA Hubble Fellowship

3/26/2026

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Hayley Beltz, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Kansas, won the NASA Hubble Prize Fellowship, the first KU recipient in its 36-year history.
The fellowship funds three years of her research on exoplanets and their magnetic fields.
She will use data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to improve her computer modeling.
Ian Crossfield, her adviser, praised the achievement as recognition for Beltz and KU's physics and astronomy department.

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Hayley Beltz, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Kansas, won the NASA Hubble Prize Fellowship, the first KU recipient in its 36-year history.
The fellowship funds three years of her research on exoplanets and their magnetic fields.
She will use data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to improve her computer modeling.
Ian Crossfield, her adviser, praised the achievement as recognition for Beltz and KU's physics and astronomy department.