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Illinois Space Grant Consortium (EXT-028)

Illinois Space Grant Consortium is documented in the DePaul Resource Map as external partner at DePaul University, External partner organization, NASA National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program — Illinois consortium, Off-campus (consortium hosted at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; DePaul is a member campus). Access: 🟡 Yellow — Needs an appointment or affiliation.

Summary 🟡 ✓

  • College / school: External partner organization
  • Sub-unit: NASA National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program — Illinois consortium
  • Campus/Location: Off-campus (consortium hosted at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; DePaul is a member campus)
  • Last Verified: August 19, 2026

Access (availability): 🟢 Green — open or routine · 🟡 Yellow — appointment or affiliation · 🔴 Red — restricted · ⚪/⚫ White/Black — not yet classified

Verification: ✓ confirmed · ~ likely · ? needs review · ✕ archived

Organization

The Illinois Space Grant Consortium (ISGC) is Illinois’ NASA Space Grant affiliate. It funds student fellowships, undergraduate research scholarships, and NASA-related education programs at member campuses.

Access status

Relationship to DePaul

DePaul has been an ISGC member campus (news cites membership since 2004). Bernhard Beck-Winchatz is DePaul site coordinator / campus director. The CSH STEM Center publishes the Space Grant collaboration page (scholarships, graduate fellowships, faculty/staff contact). Multiple DePaul awards in the grant records are ISGC-funded (for example GRA-059 and related NASA education / scholarship records).

ISGC is the funding consortium. The ballooning hardware and launch facilities are DePaul’s, inventoried on CSH-009 STEM Center Hub: weather-balloon payloads (STEM 240), helium fill, and an ISGC-funded solar telescope named in 2024 eclipse coverage. Payload camera cases for that flight were printed at CDM-001 IRL.

Known collaborations & connections

Collaborative documents

Document type Scope Parties Status Source
Member-campus listing DePaul site coordinator ISGC ↔ DePaul Named on ISGC organization page archived institutional source (depaul/SRC-001587)
Campus program page Scholarships / fellowships / contact STEM Center ↔ ISGC Published archived institutional source (depaul/SRC-001586)
Campus director quote Fellowships DePaul News Published 2023 archived institutional source (depaul/SRC-001588)

Verification

  • Status: ✓ Confirmed
  • Rationale: Institutional CSH page, consortium roster, and university news corroborate DePaul membership, campus coordinator, and Space Grant–supported ballooning/solar-telescope hardware housed on campus.
  • Last verified: 2026-08-19
  • Evidence:
  • CSH STEM Space Grant page (Beck-Winchatz site coordinator) — archived institutional source (depaul/SRC-001586)
  • ISGC organization page lists DePaul / Beck-Winchatz — archived institutional source (depaul/SRC-001587)
  • DePaul News Space Grant fellowships — archived institutional source (depaul/SRC-001588)
  • DePaul News eclipse HAB / ISGC-funded solar telescope — archived institutional source (depaul/SRC-001590)

Equipment

Equipment access (via linked resources)

Resource Notes
CSH-009 DePaul high-altitude ballooning facilities and ISGC-funded solar telescope (consortium funds; STEM Center / Physics holds the gear)
CDM-001 IRL fabrication of HAB camera/payload cases (2024 eclipse project)

Source: Illinois Space Grant Consortium; DePaul ballooning/solar-telescope hardware is on campus (institutional report Last verified: July 29, 2026.

Contacts (resource-level)

People & contacts

Named contacts when publicly documented.

Documented Relationships

NASA Space Grant member-campus partnership coordinated through Physics/STEM Center.

Documented connections

Generated from documented publication and people connections. Superscript numbers open Sources below. Multiple sources on one claim are grouped as 1,4. Grant links are listed on publication and grant pages.

Publications

People on linked publications

Sources

  1. in partnership with DePaul University and the Illinois Space Grant Consortium. Archived source retained by Resource Map maintainers. View current source
  2. Named in a published article. Archived source retained by Resource Map maintainers. View current source
  3. Named in a published article. Archived source retained by Resource Map maintainers. View current source
  4. Named in a published article. Archived source retained by Resource Map maintainers. View current source

Notes

Promoted 2026-08-19 to give Space Grant awards a partner node (previously grant-only). Conference proceeding PUB-147 names DePaul as an Illinois Space Grant Consortium partner on a NASA high-altitude ballooning program.