BME undergrad is first student from Coulter department and one of three from Georgia Tech to earn aerospace honor
Sara Kapasi (center) is the first student from the Coulter Department to win a Brooke Owens Fellowship, joining fellow Georgia Tech students Catherine Fang (left) and Andra Oltean (right).
Sara Kapasi, an undergraduate student in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, has been named to the 2025 class of Brooke Owens Fellows, a nationally competitive program supporting exceptional undergraduate women and gender minorities in aerospace with paid internships and executive mentors.
Kapasi, along with Andra Oltean and Catherine Fang, is one of three students from Georgia Tech joining 44 other undergraduates from around the country in the ninth cohort of fellows. The fellowship honors the legacy of space policy expert and pilot Brooke Owens by empowering the next generation of aerospace leaders.
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