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Dr. Galindo (Yaqui) is a faculty member at the University of Idaho, Affiliate faculty member at Idaho State University (Biology Department) and Affiliate faculty member at Utah State University (Physics/Engineer Department).
Dr. Galindo has extensive education and research in working with Native American students. While serving as chairman of the science department on the Shoshone-Bannock Indian Reservation, he was twice elected as the National Indian Teacher of the Year, awarded by the National Indian School Board Association.
Dr. Galindo received his PhD as a NASA fellow from Utah State University. Dr. Galindo led the first American Indian science team on NASA’s KC-135 (astronaut trainer) and was the lead in the design and construction of the first American Indian science experiment to launch into space aboard Space Shuttle Discovery (1998).
Dr. Galindo then successfully designed and flew five more science experiments that went into space on different Space Shuttles. The Russian Federal Space Agency flew one of Dr. Galindo’s science experiments to the International Space Station (ISS).
Dr. Galindo describes himself as “round and brown”, full of curiosity for life and learning. He finds humor in most things on this planet, including himself.
Dr. Galindo has extensive education and research in working with Native American students. While serving as chairman of the science department on the Shoshone-Bannock Indian Reservation, he was twice elected as the National Indian Teacher of the Year, awarded by the National Indian School Board Association.
Dr. Galindo received his PhD as a NASA fellow from Utah State University. Dr. Galindo led the first American Indian science team on NASA’s KC-135 (astronaut trainer) and was the lead in the design and construction of the first American Indian science experiment to launch into space aboard Space Shuttle Discovery (1998).
Dr. Galindo then successfully designed and flew five more science experiments that went into space on different Space Shuttles. The Russian Federal Space Agency flew one of Dr. Galindo’s science experiments to the International Space Station (ISS).
Dr. Galindo describes himself as “round and brown”, full of curiosity for life and learning. He finds humor in most things on this planet, including himself.
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