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Luna Abadia, Dylan Cawley, and Henry Stephens IV were recognized for their commitment to public service.

Duke class of 2026 students Luna Abadia, Dylan Cawley and Henry Stephens IV have received the Voyager Scholarship. Also referred to as the Obama-Chesky Scholarship for Public Service, the program offers funding and leadership training to students committed to serving their communities.

From Portland, Ore., Luna Abadia is a public policy major interested in emerging tech policy, political economics and climate mobility. She has served as an intern for the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, as well as a delegate for the U.S. Mission to the United Nations.

Abadia recently finished a four-year term on the youth advisory board for Plan International, which involved gender and digital human rights advocacy efforts in collaboration with the White House, Department of State and United Nations Agencies. On campus, Abadia has been involved with the Nicholas School of the Environment, the Cyber Policy Lab and Duke PorColombia.

Abadia also has a flair for languages; she is fluent in Spanish, proficient in Japanese and is currently learning Italian.

Public policy major Dylan Cawley is a cadet captain in the Air Force ROTC at Duke. Originally from Long Valley, New Jersey, he was elected as Duke Student Government Speaker of the Senate, a Rachel Carson Council fellow, vice president of the Undergraduate Environmental Union,and Hart Leadership Program Fellow.

Prior to arriving to Duke, Cawley took a gap year to join a hand crew fighting wildland fires in Northern California. Upon graduation, he will commission into the U.S. Air Force and hopes to further his studies on climate change to protect homeland security. Cawley plans to eventually support a government environmental organization to improve and enhance science-informed public policy.

Originally from Grovetown, Ga., Henry Stephens IV is majoring in sociology, with a minor in political science. On campus, he leads and serves organizations, such as the Undergraduate Student Advisory Board, Duke Black Pre-Law Society, Phi Alpha Delta Pre-Law Society, Office of Alumni Engagement and President’s Cup Committee.

Most recently, as a summer analyst for J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., he developed a $5 million grant proposal to implement a multi-faceted housing, education and career development program to address the racial wealth gap for Black and Latina women.

Eventually, Stephens plans to become a civil rights attorney and challenge discriminatory economic policies, such as racially biased credit scoring models and infringements on fair housing safeguards.

Created by Barack and Michelle Obama, and Brian Chesky, co-founder and CEO of Airbnb, the Voyager Scholarship supports students interested in pursuing careers in public service. It provides up to $50,000 of financial aid during students’ junior and senior years. The program also offers a $10,000 stipend and free Airbnb housing for rising seniors to pursue a summer experience, as well as other leadership and networking opportunities. Duke students who are considering applying to this program should contact a  Nationally Competitive Scholarships adviser.

For more information about the Voyager Scholarship for Public Service, visit the Office of Undergraduate Scholars and Fellows’ website.

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Torrey Lawrence joined the faculty in 1998 and served as director of Lionel Hampton School of Music from 2013-2017. He is the Provost and Executive Vice President for the University of Idaho.

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• D.M.A., Tuba Performance & Wind Conducting, University of Oregon, 2010
• M.Mus., Music Theory, Northwestern University, 1996
• B.Mus., Tuba Performance, Northwestern University, 1996

Torrey Lawrence began his role as the Provost and Executive Vice President in December 2020. In this role he serves as the university's chief academic officer, directly responsible for the general direction of all academic programs, endeavors, and instructional services on the Moscow campus as well as the university's statewide academic, outreach, and research initiatives.

He leads the university's strategic planning, accreditation development, and works alongside the other vice presidents and members of the administration to support U of I's mission. Prior to his current role, he served as Vice Provost for Faculty at U of I for two years. In this role he managed faculty affairs for the institution by providing leadership in the areas of faculty hiring, mentoring, supervision, professional development and promotion. He was a liaison between the Provost's Office and Faculty Senate, deans, associate deans, department chairs, and other campus leaders. He regularly advised on policy issues, directed professional development for department/school administrators, oversaw new faculty orientation and worked to support other faculty initiatives.

Lawrence has been a faculty member in the Lionel Hampton School of Music (LHSOM) since 1998. From his arrival until 2018, he taught a variety of courses including the tuba/euphonium studio, low brass ensemble, Concert Band, university athletic bands (including the Vandal Marching Band), brass choir, brass methods and band literature.

He remains an active performer and has been principal tubist in the Walla Walla Symphony since 2002. He was tubist in the Idaho Brass Quintet from 1998-2019 and the Washington Idaho Symphony from 1998-2008. Dr. Lawrence has performed with many other ensembles, including the Spokane Symphony, Oregon Symphony (Portland), Eugene Symphony and the Oregon Mozart Players. As a soloist he has performed recitals throughout the West and has had the opportunity to be featured with multiple ensembles playing the tuba concerti of Ralph Vaughan Williams (three times), Edward Gregson (twice) and Eric Ewazen (once).

As an administrator, he served as Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies & Faculty Affairs in the College of Letters, Arts & Social Sciences from 2017-2018, Director of LHSOM from 2013-2017 and Associate Director of LHSOM from 2012-2013. Prior to coming to Idaho, he was the Executive Director of the Dubuque Symphony Orchestra and taught at Clarke College in Dubuque, Iowa.

Lawrence grew up in Tacoma, Washington. He earned Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees at Northwestern University, where he studied tuba with Rex Martin, and completed a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Tuba Performance and Wind Conducting at the University of Oregon, where he studied with Michael Grose and Robert Ponto.

He and his wife, Sara, live near Viola, Idaho. Their first child, Thomas, was born in 2008 and their second, Jane, in 2012. His favorite activities include building Legos with his kids, swimming, running, bicycling and sailing the coastal waters of Washington and British Columbia.

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As Voyager 1's mission draws to a close, one planetary scientist reflects on its legacy

by Daniel Strain, University of Colorado at Boulder

For nearly 50 years, NASA's Voyager 1 mission has competed for the title of deep space's little engine that could. Launched in 1977 along with its twin, Voyager 2, the spacecraft is now soaring more than 15 billion miles from Earth.

On their journeys through the solar system , the Voyager spacecraft beamed startling images back to Earth—of Jupiter and Saturn, then Uranus and Neptune and their moons. Voyager 1's most famous shot may be what famed astronomer Carl Sagan called the "pale blue dot," a lonely image of Earth taken from 6 billion miles away in 1990.

But Voyager 1's trek could now be drawing to a close. Since December, the spacecraft--which weighs less than most cars--has been sending nonsensical messages back to Earth, and engineers are struggling to fix the problem. Voyager 2 remains operational.

Fran Bagenal is a planetary scientist at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) at CU Boulder. She started working on the Voyager mission during a summer student job in the late 1970s and has followed the two spacecraft closely since.

To celebrate Voyager 1, Bagenal reflects on the mission's legacy—and which planet she wants to visit again.

Many are impressed that the spacecraft has kept going for this long. Do you agree?

Voyager 1's computer was put together in the 1970s, and there are very few people around who still use those computing languages. The communication rate is 40 bits per second. Not megabits. Not kilobits. Forty bits per second. Moreover, the round-trip communication time is 45 hours. It's amazing that they're still communicating with it at all.

What was it like working on Voyager during the mission's early days?

At the very beginning, we used computer punch cards. The data was on magnetic tapes, and we would print out line-plots on reels of paper. It was very primitive.

But planet by planet, with each flyby, the technology got a lot more sophisticated. By the time we got to Neptune in 1989, we were doing our science on much more efficient computers, and NASA presented its results live across the globe over an early version of the internet.

Think about it—going from punch cards to the internet in 12 years.

How did the Voyager spacecraft shape our understanding of the solar system?

First of all, the pictures were jaw-dropping. They were the first high-quality, close-up pictures of the four gas giant planets and their moons. The Voyagers really revolutionized our thinking by going from one planet to the other and comparing them.

Jupiter and Saturn's ammonia white and orange clouds, for example, were violently swept around by strong winds, while Uranus and Neptune's milder weather systems were hidden and colored blue by atmospheric methane. But the most dramatic discoveries were the multiple distinct worlds of the different moons, from Jupiter's cratered Callisto and volcanic Io to Saturn's cloudy Titan to plumes erupting on Triton, a moon of Neptune.

The Jupiter and Saturn systems have since been explored in greater detail by orbiting missions—Galileo and Juno at Jupiter, Cassini at Saturn.

Voyager 2 is the only spacecraft that has visited Uranus and Neptune. Do we need to return?

My vote is to return to Uranus—the only planet in our solar system that's tipped on its side.

We didn't know before Voyager whether Uranus had a magnetic field. When we arrived, we found that Uranus has a magnetic field that's severely tilted with respect to the planet's rotation. That's a weird magnetic field.

Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune all emit a lot of heat from the inside. They glow in the infrared, emitting two and a half times more energy than they receive from the sun. These things are hot.

Uranus isn't the same. It doesn't have this internal heat source. So maybe, just maybe, at the end of the formation of the solar system billions of years ago, some big object hit Uranus, tipped it on its side, stirred it up and dissipated the heat. Perhaps, this led to an irregular magnetic field .

These are the sorts of questions that were raised by Voyager 30 years ago. Now we need to go back.

Culturally, Voyager 1's most lasting impact may be the 'pale blue dot.' Why?

I have huge respect for Carl Sagan. I met him when I was 16, a high school student in England, and I shook his hand.

He pointed to the Voyager image and said, "Here we are. We're leaving the solar system. We're looking back, and there's this pale blue dot. That's us. It's all our friends. It's all our relatives. It's where we live and die."

This was the time we were just beginning to say, "Wait a minute. What are we doing to our planet Earth?" He was awakening or reinforcing this need to think about what humans are doing to Earth. It also evoked why we need to go exploring space: to think about where we are and how we fit into the solar system.

How are you feeling now that Voyager 1's mission may be coming to an end?

It's amazing. No one thought they would go this far. But with just a few instruments working, how much longer can we keep going? I think it will soon be time to say, "Right, jolly good. Extraordinary job. Well done."

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