Innovators are key to colonizing mars

January 17, 2023

Getting astronauts onto Mars by 2040 will be a tricky endeavor. UAF professor and innovator Kelly Drew may hold some of the answers of the physiological how to’s in her research on hibernating Arctic ground squirrels.

Drew was recently featured in a Wired Magazine article about the quest to Mars, The Hibernator’s Guide to the The Hibernator’s Guide to the Galaxy.