Hailey Nelson
Student Information
Graduate StudentAstrophysics
The College of Lib Arts & Sci
Hailey Nelson is a current Astrophysics PhD student at Arizona State University’s School of Earth and Space Exploration. She graduated with a triple major from Arizona State University and Barrett The Honors College in Earth and Space Exploration (Astrophysics) (BS), Chemistry (BS), and French (BA). During her undergraduate studies she created an informal education project with the goal of making engaging education more accessible to the public— a project that she is continuing and evolving during her PhD studies to have a broader impact and reach new audiences. Hailey is also heavily involved in museum science and informal education at ASU, specifically with the School or Earth and Space Exploration and the School of Molecular Sciences, as well as with the Arizona Science Center. She works with NASA’s Mission to Psyche as an archivist, exhibit designer, and curator for the missions’s art initiative, Psyche Inspired.
Earth and Space Exploration (Astrophysics) (BS)
Chemistry (BS)
French (BA)
- Recipient of the Graduate College Enrichment Fellowship (2025-2027)
- Recipient of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Certificate of Undergraduate Excellence Award (2024-2025)
- Recipient of the Karin Valentine Science Communication Award (2024)
- Member of the ASU Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa Honors Society (2024- Present)
- Member of the Society of Physics Students (2024- Present)
- Member of Sigma Pi Sigma: The Physics and Astrophysics Honors Society (2024-Present)
- Recipient of the School of Molecular Sciences Scholarship (2024-2025)
- Recipient of The Mensch Prize for Barrett Students for Physical Sciences (2024-2025)
- Member of the Association for Women in Science (AWIS) (2023-present)
- Arizona State University Presidential Scholarship Recipient (2021-2025)