University of Texas
dedicates 'KC Hall' to Kalpana Chawla
Kalpana Chawla Hall KC Hall is a co-educational residential facility which will house 421 students. - KC Hall is located close to the Business Building, Pickard Hall, Ransom Hall Computer Lab, and much more! - KC Hall will have 9 Resident Assistants living in the building as well as 2 full-time professional Hall Directors and 10 Peer Counselors.
Dr. Chawla was responsible for maneuvering the Columbia as part of several experiments in the shuttle's payload bay. Selected by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in December 1994, she was also the prime robotic arm operator on a 1997 space shuttle mission that focused on how the weightless environment of space affects various physical processes. Born in India, she was the first woman from that nation to go into space. She received her master's of aerospace engineering from UTA in 1984. The UTA College of Engineering has established a scholarship in her name. She graduated from Tagore School, Karnal, India, in 1976 and received a bachelor's degree in aeronautical engineering from India's Punjab Engineering College in 1982 . Then, she moved to the United States to go to graduate school
at the University of Texas-Arlington, where she received a master's degree
in aerospace engineering in 1984. Then, she moved to Boulder, Colo., to
pursue a doctorate in aerospace engineering, which she received in 1988.
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