Youth from Siddapur village gets NASA grant

Karwar: Dinesh Vasanth Hegde, from Sasiguli village in Siddapur taluk, has been awarded a three-year Future Investigators in Nasa Earth and Space Science and Technology (FINESST) grants by the American space agency, NASA.
Dinesh, a research assistant in space science, University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), was selected for a scholarship of $1.35 lakh. Hegde, a second-year doctoral student is working as a graduate research assistant, Department of Space Science, UAH Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research. Nasa’s grant is to help him continue his research into space weather.
Dinesh Hegde has a humble background. His entire schooling was in rural areas in Kannada medium. He did his primary education at Vajagadde Government Primary School and his High School at Ashoka High School in Harsikatta near Vajagadde. He did his MSc from Mysore University. His father Vasanth Hegde succumbed to Covid three months ago. His mother Ganga Hegde is a homemaker.